Overrated Sentence Examples

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  • The value of the Pahlavi interpretation was overrated by Spiegel„ Darmesteter, but wholly denied by Roth.

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  • Lithium salts render the urine alkaline and are in virtue of their action diuretic. They are much prescribed for acute or chronic gout, and as a solvent to uric acid calculi or gravel, but their action as a solvent of uric acid has been certainly overrated, as it has been shown that the addition of medicinal doses of lithium to the blood serum does not increase the solubility of uric acid in it.

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  • This, undoubtedly, was the part of his task that Innocent preferred, and it was to this, as well as to his much overrated moral and theological treatises, that he owed his enormous contemporary prestige.

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  • The Great Charter must not, however, be overrated as an expression.

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  • The importance of the work has, however, been much overrated; a close examination of the sources for the exposition of the Gnostic system which is con " tained in it has Proved that the information it gives is not always trustworthy.

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  • Nay, it is greatly overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it.

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  • I hope you are not smoking any more because it's a stupid waste of money, an overrated prop, it makes your breath stink, ages you faster than just about anything, and causes major health problems.

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  • Jerome's part in the Hussite movement was formerly much overrated.

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  • As the organizer, and almost the constructor, of the modern method of clinical instruction, the services of Boerhaave to the progress of medicine were immense, and can hardly be overrated.

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  • The importance of these results, limited though their scope was, can hardly be overrated.

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  • The First and Second Olynthiacs of Demosthenes were spoken in that year in support of sending one force to defend Olynthus and another to attack Philip. "Better now than later," is the thought of the First Olynthiac. The Second argues that Philip's strength is overrated.

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  • I do think the intimation Donnie's lack of speech was a result of that incident may be overrated.

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  • Forget ' jogo bonito ', they play stupid football, a bunch of overrated players with complete disregard for collective play.

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  • Brian Wilson is the " genius " behind this vastly overrated pile of goo.

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  • Bowyer, Woodgate, Dacourt, their best players and all massively overrated.

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  • Does everyone else love it or think it is a hugely overrated film?

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  • I don't have fully universal tastes - I consider Charles Dickens to be highly overrated.

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  • He asked me whether I did not think that Lope de Vega was much overrated.

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  • Internal difficulties, low transport capabilities, and the necessity of garrisoning almost all parts of Albania and Macedonia to prevent local risings, added to the customary slackness in administration and training and the customary dishonesty in supply and equipment matters, resulted in the putting into the field of two armies which were numerically inferior, unequally trained, and poorly equipped - possessing indeed few assets beyond the solid fighting-worth of the individual Mahommedan Turk .2 With all this, however, the prestige of a great Power facing a group of small states, whose mutual hatred and rivalries had only just been composed, stood high, especially in Germany where the positive effects of the Turkish army reforms initiated by von der Goltz and others were overrated.

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  • The U.S. is overrated, I feel, and the Czechs will be very tough to beat.

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  • Even if you think The Strokes are (or should I say, were) highly overrated, it's hard to not tap your feet to this catchy, retro-rock, Iggy Pop/Velvet Underground dance party.

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