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In a culture in which the words "of our time" have become synonymous with "of the past year or so," overhype --a noun and verb meaning an excessive amount of hype , a term which itself connotes an excessive amount of orchestrated publicity--has evolved to describe one of the distinctive characteristics of our time.
Overhype implies there is some normal level of "hypeness," like body temperature or blood pressure, which in healthy individuals and societies maintains a certain constancy, but which can rise or fall to dangerous levels.
Hytner doesn't overhype his images or call attention to his own directorial hand, as he did in The Madness of King George (1994) and The Crucible (1996).
Overhype is, in its way, a strategically brilliant term.
It suggests that anyone who finds overhype unreasonable speaks with a voice of moderation--"C'mon, enough is enough"--while at the same time setting the ceiling at a level far higher than what any ordinary person would find acceptable or sufficient.