Now he understands it as Doug's implicit nod to the world's moral ambiguity, and a pretty deft preemptive strike against any more inflated rhetoric.

Seat belt laws were also implemented during the 80's, and they have saved many more lives than all the inflated rhetoric that led to airbags.

I'm often struck by the wildly inflated rhetoric of those who accuse environmentalists of scaremongering.

Revolutions have always fed upon inflated rhetoric.

While he talked himself out of his job with his inflated rhetoric, he had many virtues and Australia avoided recession.

Long after the inflated anti-tariff rhetoric has faded, the benefit of enforcing our trade laws will become clear.

Behind the inflated rhetoric, the Franklin panel has only a slim mandate and little power.

For all its inflated rhetoric, al-Jabarti's dismay was not entirely misplaced.

He was wary of right-wing groups and suspicious of inflated rhetoric.

Here, the inflated rhetoric and culturalist orthodoxies of antiracism have borne some peculiar fruit.