As a natural result, various lively-minded readers proceeded to overemphasize these particular features, and were carried into eccentricity or paradox.

There is the same naive presentation; the same introduction of the buffoon to offset tragedy with comedy; the same tendency to overemphasize the comic parts until all sense of reverence is lost.

I am anxious not to overemphasize these things on which the development of my argument forces me to lay particular stress.

If I appear to overemphasize this disguising uniform it is because, of all the details of the German outfit, it appealed to me as one of the most remarkable.