5 sentences with 'overstated'
Example sentences and phrases with the word overstated and other words derived from it.
• « The importance for scholasticism of what was called at the time "disputatio" (disputation) - the technique of debate described above - cannot be overstated. »
• « Although the Renaissance argument for the degradation of medieval culture was overstated (medieval intellectual life flourished during the late Middle Ages), there is no doubt that there was a different kind of intellectual courage and optimism that emerged from the return to classical rather than medieval models during the Renaissance. »
• « The importance of the Republic of Science cannot be overstated, for the continuous exchange of ideas and fact-checking among experts allowed science to progress gradually and continuously. »
• « The importance of the work of scientists to Enlightenment thinkers cannot be overstated, because works such as Newton's Mathematical Principles demonstrated the existence of eternal and immutable laws of nature (which may or may not have anything to do with God) that were completely rational and comprehensible to humans. »
• « The amount of cultural change that took place in the decades following World War II cannot be overstated. »