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  • It is very unhealthy to wear, and I've seen people get over-heated in it.

    What Women Are Saying About Clothing Today 2009

  • The rest of us briefly glance at each other and return to our slightly charred papers and over-heated conversations red faced and sweaty palmed and with the understanding that we will not be moving.

    The Garden Heaters Of Kilburn Craig Stone 2012

  • But it's been hard to hear anything over the din of the over-heated rhetoric from all sides.

    Robert Ross: Putting Our Health First Robert Ross 2010

  • But much of the over-heated rhetoric is due to the increasingly polarized state of our nation.

    Marjorie Clifton: The Politics of Bad Timing Marjorie Clifton 2012

  • But it's been hard to hear anything over the din of the over-heated rhetoric from all sides.

    Robert Ross: Putting Our Health First Robert Ross 2010

  • I read the first page (online) but had no wish to read more of the extremely over-heated prose.

    Publishing Maxine 2009

  • Perhaps I'm idealistic to believe that either of them had ever been effective teachers but in other cases I've witnessed the devolution: first the complacency, then the exhaustion, a year or two with particularly recalcitrant students, over-heated and/or freezing classrooms, combative administrators, nasty parents, a personal crisis or two -- then they go into survival mode.

    Larry Strauss: Why Teachers Go Bad Larry Strauss 2011

  • But based on the exaggerated and over-heated responses from groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and NFIB National Federation of Independent Business, this minor administrative rule change will result in a proletarian revolution of sorts, wresting power from America's businesses and placing it firmly in the hands of the big bad labor unions.

    David Macaray: Crying Over Unspilled Milk: Big Business Opposes NLRB Rule Changes David Macaray 2011

  • Many see it primarily as an "election year" sure to be heavy with political posturing and over-heated promises that will not be kept.

    Michael Meade, D.H.L.: The Growing Chaos and the New Year D.H.L. Michael Meade 2011

  • These exercises in false equivalency serve to legitimize the extremism that is now so mainstream on the right -- reducing fear and resentment-fueled fanaticism to a tactic or a 'side' in our over-heated politics debates.

    Jonathan Weiler: On False Equivalencies Jonathan Weiler 2010

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