1) American political book 2) Bombastic 3) Grandiloquent 4) Like many stump speeches 5) Overinflated 6) Past the stage of full bloom 7) Pompous 8) Pontifical 9) Portentous 10) Pretentious 11) Puffed up with vanity 12) Turgid 1) Exaggerated 2) Hyped 3) Inflated 4) Pompous 5) Portentous 6) Pretentious 
Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them is a book by the American political scientist John E. Mueller published in 2006. It argues that the threat presented by terrorism, like many other security threats, has been much inflated. ==The book and the argument== ===Origins=== Mue...
[adj] - past the stage of full bloom
adjective past the stage of full bloom; `overblown roses`
overdone or excessive: overblown praise. · of unusually large size or proportions: a majestic, overblown figure. · overinflated; turgid; bombastic; pretentious: overblown prose.