Despite its somewhat overblown look, the Vintage Plaza manages to avoid ostentation.

Emma was a rose, though somewhat overblown by the time Nelson met her.

He said the popular belief that the Olympics and election combination every four years was going to make it a good year was, he believed, "somewhat overblown."

He said, for instance, that concerns about the bureau's power to monitor library checkouts under the Patriot Act had been "somewhat overblown" and that agents generally visited a library only "when we have a reason for going in."

Many political analysts recognize that the commitment of ordinary members and leaders to independence is so strong that comments about tensions are somewhat overblown and driven by the wishful thinking of unionist sympathisers.

The concern over Internet security is somewhat overblown.

Dvorak's ebullient "Scherzo Capriccioso," similarly, received a hearteningly robust if somewhat overblown performance, all but Wagnerian in sonority and scale.

"The inventory scare may be somewhat overblown," he said.

A psychiatrist's somewhat overblown response to a somewhat overblown problem.

Some criticisms include the somewhat overblown soundtrack and the voice acting.