"I obviously need to take seriously what the commission said, but I also need to treat it a bit circumspectly because of its very overblown rhetoric."

But one half expects an amplified John Williams soundtrack to punctuate the overblown run-on rhetoric.

But some of the heat has been obscured by smoke, smoke of overblown rhetoric and disproportionate actions.

Moreover, this voice calls the conspiracy theories and overblown rhetoric that pervade the region signs of a cultural crisis that needs resolution.

From the former, he gained a love of overblown rhetoric; from the latter, he learned how to use intimidation as a management style.

That is why I have no truck, and you should have no truck, with overblown rhetoric about waves of irresponsible strikes.

Mr. Brokaw's observation was sound, and he was right to torpedo the overblown rhetoric.

That's why he will "have no truck with overblown rhetoric about waves of irresponsible strikes."

He set up a magazine, Vuelta , to pursue intellectual inquiry free of the Mexican left's more overblown rhetoric.

Unfortunately, their work is undigested, marred by overblown rhetoric and, in the end, more exhausting than exhaustive.