What's the difference between emphasized and overblown?
Emphasized
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Emphasize
Example Sentences:
(1) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
(2) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
(3) In light of these findings, the implications of the need to address appraisals and coping efforts in research and therapy with incest victims was emphasized.
(4) This report emphasizes that it is the increased blood flow, rather than the bone pathology per se, that determines uptake of Tc-99m DTPA in Paget's disease.
(5) The importance of prompt diagnosis of torsion is emphasized.
(6) A therapeutic approach is suggested which emphasizes specific antibiotic regimens appropriate to the primary site of infection and prompt neurosurgical intervention with evacuation of the subdural spaces bilaterally.
(7) It is of special interest because it presented as a periapical pathosis associated with a nonvital tooth and emphasizes the value of routine histopathologic examination of tissue.
(8) It is emphasized that the knowledge of the behavior and regulation of SO is incomplete and that this should be remembered when criteria for SOD are applied.
(9) This empirical fact has in recent years been increasingly dealt with in pertinent German-language literature, the discussion clearly emphasizing the demand that programmes aimed at the vocational qualification of unemployed disabled persons be provided, along with accompanying measures.
(10) These results emphasize the importance of plasma FFA levels as a correlate of glucose tolerance and suggest that the associations previously reported between obesity, regional body fat distribution, fat cell size and glucose tolerance are, at least partly, mediated by variations in plasma FFA levels.
(11) High levels of both enzymes were reached noticeably earlier during development in PCT and PST than in medullary thick ascending limb, which emphasizes metabolic heterogeneity of developing rat kidney nephron.
(12) The studies described in this report emphasize the potential importance of atrial natriuretic factor in affecting systemic and renal hemodynamics, sodium excretion and components of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system.
(13) This report emphasizes the value of intensive investigation before surgery, since it may be impossible to identify the site of bleeding at laparotomy.
(14) Management of these patients was difficult and emphasizes the need for specialist expertise for patients with epilepsy and apparent epilepsy.
(15) The practice of community nursing was heavily emphasized, and it was endeavored to strike a balance between hospital experience and work in communities themselves.
(16) The utility of a life charting approach is emphasized in delineating past and present course of illness, considering the relevance of cycling pattern and past treatment efficacy in selection of present pharmacological interventions, and helping to formulate a multifactorial concept of the interplay of biological and psychosocial factors in the evolution or exacerbation of mood disorders.
(17) The case report serves to emphasize the need to be aggressive in the initial management of malignant bone tumours.
(18) We interpreted these results within an attributional framework that emphasizes the salience of upsetting events within a social network.
(19) The presence of gelatinosa neurons projecting to the thalamus emphasizes a point made in earlier reports, that these neurons do not form an homogeneous population.
(20) The interest of monitoring lead excretion during chelation therapy is particularly emphasized.
Overblown
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) "In the same way as the camera tells a different story to reality, it's the same on stage; the gestures that might seem incredibly overblown in the moment are played out differently.
(2) • 1050 East Palm Canyon Drive (+1 760 323 1858, thehorizonhotel.com ); double rooms from $109 The Movie Colony Movie Colony, Palm Springs Concierge John-Michael swears that Jim Morrison made the leap from balcony to pool here in 1969, and that Frank Sinatra was a resident while his nearby home was being renovated – and even though the myth of celebrity tends to get overblown, if not utterly fabricated, in southern California, we found no reason not to take him at his word.
(3) In the Prussian capital, hippie culture is state policy.” 'In the Prussian capital, hippie culture is state policy' Die Welt deputy editor Ulf Poschardt The rhetoric may be overblown, but the remarkable fact is that Berlin will ultimately not further develop a hugely valuable piece of real estate, all because the people decided they didn’t trust big business not to mess up the park they loved.
(4) The prime minister dismissed claims that the health service was suffering a humanitarian crisis as “irresponsible and overblown” in a series of exchanges over the situation.
(5) Of course, the overblown rhetoric coming from politicians fails to acknowledge that talks with the Taliban were at an embryonic stage.
(6) Henning said the dramatic share sell-off may yet prove overblown.
(7) This is a damning portrait of football, the overblown great and simple game, of course, but it is also a more general indictment of a society in which endemic, grindingly low levels of pay, too little to live on with dignity, are actually set by the government, while vast individual wealth is idolised.
(8) Comparisons with Algeria in 1991 – when the regime cancelled a second round of elections that the Islamists seemed poised to win – may be overblown.
(9) Comments by the well-known anti-terrorist Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón describing Qatada as the "spiritual head of the mujahedin in Britain" were dismissed by British security and intelligence sources as overblown rhetoric.
(10) White House officials are keen to play down expectations of any formal summit communique or statement from the Chinese, who feel the issue has been overblown.
(11) Russia's sports minister, Vitaly Mutko, said at the weekend that the law does not violate any rights and called worries that it would infringe upon the freedoms of athletes and spectators "overblown," the state R-Sport news agency reported.
(12) After the jet-black high school satire Heathers pulled the rug out from under John Hughes and his oversharing Brat Pack, in 1989, American adolescents were left with few offerings, most of them wistful odes to another age – either stylistically, as with the overblown, pirate-radio-themed Christian Slater vehicle Pump Up the Volume; or quite literally, in the case of Richard Linklater’s nostalgia-fuelled 70s pastiche, Dazed and Confused.
(13) Threadneedle Street got quite sniffy when it was suggested that the FLS would be a bung to the high street banks benefiting only Britain's vociferous and overblown housing lobby?
(14) This tax story may be minor, it may be overblown, it may be unfair on David Cameron.
(15) Watch it here: ) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 2.59pm GMT Dianne Feinstein has not garnered much praise in the last year from civil liberties and privacy advocates, many of whom see her as having been too deferential to the intelligence community – of allowing testimony to go unchallenged, of making overblown claims for the efficacy of surveillance programs, of siding with the intelligence chiefs over the public.
(16) In mitigation the 61-year-old boyhood Sunderland fan trimmed back an overblown squad he inherited from Steve Bruce but he made some perplexing fringe additions including Louis Saha and James McFadden, both recently released.
(17) Overblown spin suggested that a single credit might promote marriages and iron out every inherent tension between relieving poverty and rewarding self-improvement.
(18) From this, Garrone takes his opening of the film, in order to pastiche a massively overblown wedding for Enzo, the returning star of Big Brother made good, and to send up the absurdity of the show generally.
(19) From what I understand, however, Brighton's basic principles are still the same: remaindered hippy culture is matched with nightclub hedonism, gay pride, south-eastern wealth and bien-pensant London refugees to create a vibrant, progressive, occasionally overblown new city.
(20) Some foreign diplomats in Havana say allegations of forced labour in the programme appear overblown.