It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.
Quotes about overstatement (10 Quotes)
While the Mercury News series could arguably be faulted for occasional overstatement, the elite media's attacks on the series were clearly driven by a need to defend their shoddy record on the contra-cocaine story--involving a decade-long suppression of evidence ( Extra , 687, 3-488). The Washington Post was typical. When Brian Barger and I wrote the first story about contra-cocaine smuggling for the Associated Press in December 1985 (122085), ... the Post waited a week, added some fresh denials and then stuck the story near the back of the national news section.
Perhaps its an overstatement to say that Bush and his immediate team would countenance the violent demise of Hugo Chvez (although in April 2002 they sanctioned an attempted coup against the Venezuelan leader which could easily have ended with his death.) For many months now, the Venezuelan president has claimed that the White House has targeted him for assassination. In March, the State Department retorted that Chvezs spate of accusations regarding a CIA plot to assassinate him were wild. However, serious doubts emerged over the weight of the administrations latest display of supposed indifference to Chvezs fate when Felix Rodriguez, a former CIA operative in Central America and influential Bush-backer in South Florida, claimed in a Miami TV interview that regarding Venezuela, the administration has contingency plans. ... could be economic measures and even at some point military measures.
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
to suggest that we need several hundred thousand troops there after military operations cease, after the conflict ends, I don't think is accurate. I think that's an overstatement.
There is a lot of interest in this case, but we took the time to give it an evaluation, ... Regardless of public attention, we forward it for fair review. To say we expedited it would be an overstatement.
We believe there has been much overstatement in the American press over the last several days with regard to the use of military force in Iran.
If the state says there's a plan, that's an overstatement.
But at the same time, I think it's an overstatement to think that Russia is going back to the days of the Soviet Union,
What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.