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Another thing: Why do 50-something male columnists criticize the Women's World Cup team as being "overhyped," when, in fact, that story was the complete opposite of hype (fans packing stadiums and surprising everyone, forcing sports editors to scramble to send reporters to cover a burgeoning story)?
Hype derives from hyperbole , and when it came into use in the '60s, it was used, in much the way overhyped is used today, to refer to something praised far in excess of its value ("Sergeant Pepper has been hyped as a masterpiece, but the fact is, most of the songs on it aren't of the first rank").
In part, it did sound like a classic case of a movie that in two weeks went from being a sleeper to being overhyped, so that people who saw Blair Witch after, say, August 6 were led to believe they were about to see the greatest horror film ever made.
In fact, says the review, only children are no better off than children in big families, and overpopulation may be an overhyped myth.
An exciting game and watchable halftime show deflated the perennial gripes with Super Sunday, leaving critics only the overhyped, overpriced commercials to kvetch about.