It acknowledges criticisms of his lyrics as overblown and insincere, which had begun to appear as the popularity of the band increased, but responds by stating that the lyrics are meant for personal interpretation.

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.

Following debates over the orientation of the ISO to the Australian political situation, the members were expelled for arguing the ISO held overblown expectations of the 1990s.

* Ted Maul ( Chris Morris )-The roving reporter who later appears in Brass Eye made his first appearance in The Day Today as a grey-haired, moustachioed veteran who speaks in an overblown, aggressive way.

and opponents of the traditional Christmas ; it is also cited as a cautionary tale or urban legend by those who regard allegations of the existence of a " war on Christmas " as overblown.

Marmaduke and other white officers claimed that the accusations of illegal killings were overblown, and blamed any murders that may have happened on the Choctaw troops who, in the words of one while Confederate, did " kill and scalp some " of the black troops.

This so-called Anti-Tom literature generally took a pro-slavery viewpoint, arguing that the issues of slavery as depicted in Stowe's book were overblown and incorrect.

McClellan's future campaigns would be strongly influenced by the overblown enemy strength estimates of his secret service chief, detective Allan Pinkerton, but in August 1861, these estimates were entirely McClellan's own.

Shostakovich's contemporaries were dismayed, even angered by its lack of subtlety, crudity, and overblown dramatics.

The film is thought to have been denied awards because Academy voters were alienated by an overblown publicity campaign, particularly one Variety ad claiming that the film's cast was praying harder for Chill Wills to win his award than the defenders of the Alamo prayed for their lives before the battle.

Books in the genre attempted to show either that slavery was beneficial to African Americans or that the evils of slavery as depicted in Stowe's book were overblown and incorrect.

Many of these fears were based on misunderstanding and were overblown, but the group does have detailed calculations concerning what they deem the end times.

Joker used the powers not only to execute Batman in a gruesome manner, but also to resurrect Batman instantaneously and then quickly and repeatedly murder him again, each time in a typical overblown fashion.

Eric appreciates his mom's support but her overblown displays of affection often leave him feeling embarrassed.

God, sex, class, guilt, moralizing and Negro spirituals are all thrown into the stew, and you'll come away feeling that although it's worthy in its ideals, it could have done with a touch less overblown melodrama.

This is us trying to recreate that overblown American FM-rock sound to the point where it almost becomes absurd.

In the case of a saxophone, which has a similar mouthpiece-reed combination to the clarinet, or of an oboe, where double reeds beat against each other to the same effect, the conical-shaped bore of these instruments gives their the closed tube properties of an open tube ; when overblown, the pitch jumps an octave higher.

( An insignificant minority of residents in nearby Westhampton Beach have pushed for renaming their community East Speonk, which they consider a more desirable association than the overblown " Hamptons ".

In his review for the Chicago Reader, Dave Kehr wrote, " Chase and Ritchie make a strong, natural combination: the union of their two flip, sarcastic personalities produces a fairly definitive example of the comic style of the 80s, grounded in detachment, underreaction, and cool contempt for rhetorically overblown authority figures ".

She disapproved of the ' overblown sound ' of Mahler and similar composers, and instead chose to work with sparse textures and develop her own type of serialism ; she first used a 12-note series in Chamber Concerto I for 9 instruments ( 1939 ), a work that has been compared with Webern's op. 24 Concerto, but earlier than this she had been using the techniques of inversion and retrograde fundamental to a serial idiom, and she claimed she had been inspired to this by precedents she found in older British music, especially Purcell.

In response, Zadie Smith described hysterical realism as a " painfully accurate term for the sort of overblown, manic prose to be found in novels like my own White Teeth and a few others he was sweet enough to mention.

Puccini had been considering an opera on this theme since he saw the play Tosca by Victorien Sardou in 1889, when he wrote to his publisher, Giulio Ricordi, begging him to get Sardou's permission for the work to be made into an opera: " I see in this Tosca the opera I need, with no overblown proportions, no elaborate spectacle, nor will it call for the usual excessive amount of music.

By 2002, it had been abandoned and partially overblown with sand, inhabited only by a few Imraguen fishermen and guarded by a Mauritanian military outpost, despite this not being formally Mauritanian territory.

t is not just that Smith's Wealth of Nations has had a terribly overblown reputation from his day to ours.

In November 2009 Thomas Claburn, in response to fears that Microsoft had patented the command, found the suspicions to be overblown.

Some in the media felt that both the controversy and Reid ’ s reaction had been overblown.

Later software was written to help design web pages and by 1998 Dreamweaver had been established as the industry leader ; however some have criticized the quality of the code produced by such software as being overblown and reliant on tables.

The composer Debussy later wrote that the musical establishment could not cope with Offenbach's irony, which exposed the " false, overblown quality " of the operas they favoured – " the great art at which one was not allowed to smile ".

Kerrey voted for the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act which repealed the Glass – Steagall Act in 1999, defending his position against opposition by stating, " The concerns that we will have a meltdown like 1929 are dramatically overblown ,".

Seanbaby's original website houses many reviews of old video games, a substantial section on the old Super-Friends cartoon, critiques on old DC comics, a collection of Hostess Pie ads ( with commentary ), sarcastic commentary on Christian fundamentalists and hipsters, examples of poorly translated English, reviews of bad movies and comics, ineffective or overblown self-defense techniques, current events, and a photo gallery of himself with friends.

It features a lilting melodic line and what some consider to be an overblown film score-like orchestration ( supposedly including a young Warren Zevon ), a view which Ochs himself would later on come to share.

He has the most " controversial and overblown " show known that features him killing ectoplasmic monsters he created himself with chainsaws and saving ectoplasm female " dolls ".

Yet this passion for passion, now that I look back on it with passion spent, seems somewhat overblown and operatic, though as a diva Miss Millay perfectly controlled her notes.

Flamini notes that these efforts led to sometimes " overblown and overglamous " productions, and speculates whether his focus on Shearer led to him dismissing a chance to produce Gone with the Wind.

He argues that many erroneously categorize the content of The Satanic Bible as evil and depraved from the minimalist, dark cover design ( composed of a purple Sigil of Baphomet and white text on the front, and a photo of LaVey superimposed over the Sigil of Baphomet on the back ), the verbose, overblown style of the text, and the presence of the word " Satan " in the title.

It has been long entirely deserted, and the vestiges only can be discerned with difficulty ; for the loose sand, borne on the temptestuous gales of those stormy regions, has overblown, and almost buried, the ruins of the buildings ; but in the end of the seventeenth century, a part of the Earl's mansion was still entire and habitable.

Despite his overblown, unfunny humor, everyone on the show finds him hilarious.

In July 2005, following the Lions tour, a journalist on the BBC Sport website, James Standley, commented that The Power Of Four is " hollow and disliked by fans " while the Sunday Heralds Alasdair Reid called it " pompous and overblown ".

Years after the incident, Jones actually became an advocate for George, stating that the TV argument was overblown and George was actually a good quarterback, a team player and worthy of being on an NFL roster.

The announcement of this ' crack ' was somewhat overblown by the media, because as of August, 2009, the best attack on WPA ( the Beck-Tews attack ) is only partially successful in that it only works on short data packets, it cannot decipher the WPA key, and it requires very specific WPA implementations in order to work.

On 7 May 1889 he wrote to his publisher, Giulio Ricordi, begging him to get Sardou's permission for the work to be made into an opera: " I see in this Tosca the opera I need, with no overblown proportions, no elaborate spectacle, nor will it call for the usual excessive amount of music.

The film opens with a campaign van for presidential candidate Hal Phillip Walker driving around Nashville as an external loudspeaker blares Walker's folksy political aphorisms, juxtaposed with country superstar Haven Hamilton ( Henry Gibson ) recording an overblown patriotic song intended to commemorate the upcoming Bicentennial, and growing irritated with the accompanying musicians in the studio.

In response, critics accused him of " explaining away " consciousness because he disputes the existence of certain conceptions of consciousness that he considers overblown and incompatible with what is physically possible.

Richard Christiansen of Chicago Tribune suggested that " Chess falters despite new strategy ," yet concluded his review: " Audiences forgive a lot of failings when they find a show that touches them with its music, and Chess, clumsy and overblown as it sometimes is in its three hours-plus running time, gives them that heart ".

When the instrument is overblown, with or without the aid of its register key, the pitch is a twelfth higher.

The character quickly became popular in Italy, his anti-heroic nature is overblown to grotesque proportions ( he is a burglar and general criminal, lives in sewers, takes showers with toxic waste and hates everything " good natured ") and politically incorrect humour ( fart and burp jokes, italian politicians caricatures and social commentary ).

Hans Schmidt concludes that while Spivak made a cogent argument for taking the suppressed testimony seriously, he embellished his article with his " overblown " claims regarding Jewish financiers, which Schmidt dismisses as guilt by association not supported by the evidence of the Butler-MacGuire conversations themselves.