Meaning of over-celebrated | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C2]

Examples

“A French naval officer, who had visited Montenegro, and from whom I sought information concerning that over-celebrated country, told me that everything which came under his personal observation, during a short residence in those highlands, was so entirely different to all his pre-conceived notions about them, as well as to all he ad ever heard and to all he had ever read⟳, that he arefully avoided giving his opinion;”

“A substantial number⟳ of the poets of the decade, as of any other, knew no substitute for sense⟳ and offered vivid visible reports in their poems, of this and that object or event; and sometimes the question⟳ was raised, as it should be raised now, as to whether such observation was, in fact, used poetically, or whether it was a mere reflection of things and nothing more, like⟳ some of those little poems that appeared under the permissive dispensation of Amy Lowell's brand of imagism or the red wheelbarrow of William Carlos Williams, the most over-celebrated vehicle in literary history.”

“Next to the over-celebrated introduction, its most notable features are the threatening shadows that return⟳ several times in the first movement and in the trio of the minuet.”

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