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Treated as more significant or praiseworthy than is deserved ..
To determine who are Chicago`s 10 most overcelebrated celebrities, we polled 75 readers, most of them, as it happens, journalists known to take pleasure in beating dead horses.
Nevertheless, he must be counted as one of the several independent discoverers of this celebrated, probably overcelebrated, theorem, a history of which he has given [1975, IV, Chap. 274].
Even at a court such as Turin, the centralizing and absolutist tendencies of which have been overemphasized, many different foyers of cultural patronage coexisted: the dynasty and its different branches, the secular clergy and the religious orders, the municipality and the great court clans, for instance the Dal Pozzo family, the elder, much wealthier, and powerful cousins of the overcelebrated Cassiano, who assembled an important collection of more than 500 pictures.
I tell you frankly, I think Miles Davis is so amazingly overrated and overcelebrated, and Lee hardly at all, even though they've worked closely together in some very significant work. John Coltrane is overcelebrated, Eric Dolphy is forgotten.
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Over celebrated means Treated as more significant or praiseworthy than is deserved ..
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To determine who are Chicago`s 10 most overcelebrated celebrities, we polled 75 readers, most of them, as it happens, journalists known to take pleasure in beating dead horses.
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