Blown Up

In a conference room were blown-up pictures, including a 2009 holiday shot of the staff — "a family photo," Mr. Karamargin called it — and one of Mr. Zimmerman with a copy of the Declaration of Independence he had helped bring to Tucson for display. ❋ Michael Rothfeld (2011)

So, what happened in Afghanistan is really a travesty, as these cultural icons were blown-up by ignorant people. ❋ Mike Ragogna (2010)

Since the various Smithsonian museums don't want to impinge on each other's territory, there wasn't much about the space program beyond a few blown-up newspaper articles about the moon landings, but the headline "Earthlings Turn Into Lunatics" was pretty amusing anyway. ❋ Zoe P. Strassfield (2011)

We're anticipating a Washington Life cover featuring a bunch of high-level lawmakers standing in front of a blown-up photo of a dead bin Laden with the headline "INSIDERS." ❋ Eliot Nelson (2011)

One blown-up color transparency has merit as well as interest. ❋ Paul Levy (2011)

To the right and lower down, a smaller headline SPANISH TROOPS IN DUBLIN topped a sidebar running down the outside edge, a border of words framing two grainy, blown-up photographs of Jesica and Alfonso Mellado Salazar. ❋ Gerard O’Donovan (2011)

If this "vaccum" device existed, I'd be swimming in media right now because every fish I catch would be instantly blown-up to record size. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Complete disjunction between the blown-up rhetoric you use to describe how awful the ITEP analysis is ( "shills," "antonym of analysis") and the virtually content-free criticism you back these insults up with. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A great roof, whose beauty should come from the way its great weight came down to the ground at three points is engulfed with even bigger temporary structures, blown-up, go-faster versions of what might be seen at a county cattle fair, needed to house the 15,000 temporary seats for the Olympic Games. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And these college girls were all half-naked, with these big blown-up boxing gloves on their hands, just bouncing around and being a spectacle. ❋ Sherrie Daly (2011)

They look modern because they are eccentric, such as Marni's off-kilter rounded lines and Prada's blown-up plaids, or they are made of extraordinary materials. ❋ Christina Binkley (2011)

I didn't quite see the value in the exercise—the blown-up Polaroids seem like lesser versions of finished work. ❋ J. S. Marcus (2011)

While the print advertisement has been floating around for a few months, it wasn't until passersby got a glimpse at a blown-up billboard version (where? that part isn't mentioned ...) that the mistake was caught. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)