We haven't been letting him exercise as much as he'd like; he always overstresses himself too soon after he's been hurt.

He overstresses the Truman administration's belief in intervention and unilateralism, playing down the importance it also attached to alliances.

Some writers, responding to his thesis, believe that he overstresses the power of reason and underestimates that of unpredictability and irrationality.

Mr. Dennehy does a good job of conveying Daly's shrewdness and essential decency, though the film overstresses his fatherliness with the younger men.

Ms. Sherrill perhaps overstresses Miranda's waiflike innocence, and Mr. Langella doesn't help by appearing to regard her love for Ferdinand as a silly indulgence.

THE third problem with the manual is that it actually overstresses winning "hearts and minds" - the political, economic, civic and other "soft power" tactics aimed at winning popular support.

The major critique of this theory is that it overstresses social barriers along racial and ethnic lines without providing adequate explanations for why many second generation immigrants overcome these barriers and experience socioeconomic mobility.

Mr. Reno, who also appeared in "La Femme Nikita" and Mr. Besson's "Subway," plays Leon with a soulful air that overstresses his superiority to a brutish world.