Done badly they can leave people looking puffed up, or with major infections.
Weak minds puffed up by vanity are exactly why Harvard is dealing with its enormous cheating scandal right now.
The breakfast options consisted of microwaved, plastic-wrapped pastry that arrived with the wrapper puffed up like a blowfish from the heat.
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Though Petrobras, subject to market discipline, is relatively lean, any new state company might quickly become puffed up by political appointees.
On a conventional schedule she got pounding headaches and puffed up so much between treatments that her clothes would no longer fit, despite a long list of dietary restrictions.
In January the two companies unveiled an aerogel fabric called Zeroloft, so named because it can trap a person's warmth without being puffed up to produce loft (as a goose down jacket must be).
Acting alone, gravity would cause stars to collapse completely, but as long as energy is produced at their centers by nuclear fusion (the joining of atomic nuclei to form new elements, as in a hydrogen bomb), the star is heated and puffed up.
When results of the second BG-12 study were released, participants remember Al Sandrock, the Biogen researcher who led the way to developing the drug, sitting puffed up in his chair looking at the positive results, euphoric that five years of hard work were paying off.
Art-world experts are quick to point out that the market today has a strong foundation, with a cheap dollar and stable equity markets, in contrast to the puffed up prices of a decade and a half ago that were largely driven by the hyperactive Japanese economy.
And just as the flattered, puffed-up student gets a painful dose of reality after graduation, so the economy gets it when the never-liquidated errors finally bring about the inevitable crash.
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Three middle-age blowhards (a supercilious retired soldier, a dull canon and the puffed-up owner of a river bathhouse) vie for the affections of a comely magician's assistant, who seems open to dalliances despite a relationship with her milquetoast employer (wonderfully underplayed by Mr. Menzel).
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Indeed, one frequent criticism of the Kosovars, and of their intellectuals, is that, especially last year, they hugely over-estimated the strength of the Kosovo Liberation Army, praised it to the skies (in newspapers such as Koha Ditore, among others) and puffed it up when it was nowhere near ready to take on the Serbs.
The reaction was MPs huffed and puffed their outrage in parliament and sales of the newspaper went up.
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