How To Use Exaggerated In A Sentence

Miles, the more successful, exaggerated the decorative qualities of his father's style to the point of mannerism.
The Communists vastly exaggerated their own Resistance role in order to attract postwar political support.
This rope feature and the lion paw feet, legs, and exaggerated acanthus leaves are very similar to the one at Glin.
The disparity seems further exaggerated by the size and blackness of the soldier's hat.
Western fears, he insists, are greatly exaggerated.

Soon the guard - about half a dozen soldiers and NCOs in all - marched out with an extremely rapid step and exaggerated movements; they came to a halt with a massive goose-step.
There was rhythmic propulsion and vigor in the fast sections, yet the quartet never exaggerated the music's pulse.
The newspapers exaggerated the whole affair wildly.
Clad in a rollneck and forever gently clasping a glass of red wine, Lucont represents all the jokes and illusions we have about the French taken to an exaggerated and absurd level. This week's new comedy
In much of today's Western culture, virtuousness is primarily associated with exaggerated propriety, but in past centuries virtue was of immense importance as a pivotal principle of religious, ethical and political thought.
Furthermore, if the moneymen in Beijing, Tokyo, Berlin, and the other nations currently running trade surpluses against the U.S. start to ponder exaggerated retaliation against the U.S., they will soon discover the advantage is with us, not them. Ian Fletcher: Why Donald Trump Is Right on Trade
But it is an exaggerated horror, itself suspect, which would make us unable to acknowledge the facts because of the seamy side of the facts.
Everything is done with exaggerated slowness, which seems a rather cheap way of adding profundity to some fairly simplistic ideas about war not being a very good thing.
‘Good morning to you too, mademoiselle,’ said John in exaggerated courtesy.
What's most terrifying is that it's true, exaggerated as it seems. OMG BFF LOL
Not only are the claims made for rave exaggerated and in many cases unwarranted, but they rest on a misunderstanding of history.
Dogs bred to have exaggerated angulation in the hindquarters, extreme pelvic slope, or are poorly muscled, poorly angulated, and narrow in the hips seem more predisposed.
Oversized wooden gallery benches made for the show are painted with exaggerated woodgrain patterns.
Isn't Marx making a deliberately exaggerated statement of his own position in order to display its novelty?
Gracefully asprawl on the ottoman, in an attitude of almost exaggerated repose, was the boy of the woods.
Even a sensible idea or a fine principle is exaggerated to the point that it becomes preposterous and untenable.
Schneier's article, and the crux of his point, is that the term cyber war and the threat of cyber warfare has been greatly exaggerated. Site Home
He occasionally invents grotesquely exaggerated success stories in a self-mocking parody of his frustrated bourgeois ambitions.
An exaggerated sense of antiquarianism, anthopologism, confusion of roles between the ordained and the non-ordained, a limitless provision of space for experimentation -- and indeed, the tendency to look down upon some aspects of the development of the Liturgy in the second millennium -- were increasingly visible among certain liturgical schools. Clear Words of Msgr Ranjith on the Flaws of the Postconciliar Liturgical Reforms and the Need for a Reform of the Reform
The USDA's Horse Protection Program is meant to protect these wonderful animals, ensuring that Tennessee Walking Horses are not subjected to the abusive practice of "soring" -- the intentional infliction of pain to a horse's legs or hooves in order to force an artificial, exaggerated gait. Wayne Pacelle: Federal Audit Finds Rampant Abuses of Show Horses; Agency Reform Promised
He exaggerated the hips with panniered silk skirts, and skirts were stiffened into subtle bell shapes.
Let me check one more time and get back to you,’ Jocelyn drawled and with exaggerated movements, she resurveyed the contents of the bag.
The March is a simple enough dance: march in place with exaggerated arm swings.
When politeness is all we have connecting us to others, incivility takes on an exaggerated significance.
On the assumption that an exaggerated gastrocolic reflex is indeed the problem, you can address it in two ways.
The fact is that both the benefits of affirmative action and the white-male fears of reverse discrimination have been exaggerated.
They use gestures, exaggerated voices, or pronouncements to represent things that are not present in the immediate environment.
Erickson studied under Frank Lloyd Wright, and while his education projects tend to err towards megastructures, his houses are exaggerated takes on Wright's Prairie Style aesthetic.
Then, exaggerated feminity came into style, which could only be achieved by wearing a corset. I don’t feel good about this « Dating Jesus
E-commerce hasn't significantly altered consumer behavior, experts say, adding that the death of malls was exaggerated.
Instead of the melodious tones of an Irish brogue, the exaggerated drawl of an angry young man spat from the earpiece.
Somebody already addressed this elsewhere stating that the alleged "creakiness" numbers were contrived & exaggerated & mitigated by vehicle processing activity. The NASA Administrator Guessing Game Continues - NASA Watch
He made an exaggerated bow.
Among their findings, mice heterozygous for a null mutation of the alpha-isoform of calcium / calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II show profoundly dysregulated behaviors, including a severe working memory deficit and an exaggerated infradian rhythm (cycle of increases and decreases in locomotor activity in their home cage; 2-3 weeks / cycle), which are comparable to the symptoms observed in patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other psychiatric disorders. Dailyindia.com News Feed
This claim to glory, doubtless exaggerated in stereotypical Gascon fashion, caricatures, indeed cleverly reverses the terms of Soyer's own, far less swashbuckling role in the July Days — Mirobolant would have slain elite troops while standing his ground in the street, whereas Soyer was nearly lynched by a revolutionary mob while fleeing from a palace kitchen. Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
The June light, now approaching the middle hours of the day, and radiant with sunshine, fell in long golden shafts across the body of the choir and into the ranks of the brothers and obedientiaries opposite, gilding half a face here and throwing its other half into exaggerated shade, there causing dazzled eyes in a blanched face to blink away the brightness. The Rose Rent
I know that I have exaggerated or made hyperbolic the abuse in my family when talking about it tangentially, either out of black humor or bitterness.
On Sundays and Mondays, some workers may have skipped the fair to go to the cabarets or taverns in the suburbs (where wine and food were cheaper), though the extent of this custom should not be exaggerated.
Joey stared at it absently, taking an exaggerated interest in the papers spewing out.
As far as I have heard, the passengers, crew and authorities all acted calmly and appropriately," said Ian S. Lustick, a political scientist at the University of Pennsylvania and author of "Trapped in the War on Terror," a 2006 book that criticized what he called the exaggerated response to terrorism. Post-gazette.com - News
If the truth about Jaleh Place's event find difficult to reach the ears of French people, it's because journalists have diabolized the Shah's regime and cannot confess they exaggerated the facts for purely ideological reasons without knowing anything about the history of Iran, Islam, Shiite or Iranian society which suffers from the mullahs 'burden! Iran Resist
In fact, the next day the press got involved and began sensationalising things with exaggerated reports about how many were involved in the demonstration.
Mugging became common, and although the increase of crime was exaggerated in the popular imagination it was certainly true that it became inadvisable to be alone in certain places at certain times.
Inevitably, the press exaggerated the story.
The unexpected failure to find WMD, coupled with exaggerated but real post-war difficulties, have caused enough erosion of public domestic support for our efforts to ‘unteach’ the lessons of our victory.
However, since modern society, the rules of reason and exaggerated, leading to loss of virtue ethics and marginalization has led to a modern crisis of sexual morality and ethical dilemma.
Their interpretability, however, must not be exaggerated; their meanings are not necessarily wholly predictable on first acquaintance.
How much of the exaggerated information on the then new divorce laws which Beaucock imparted to his listener was the result of ignorance, and how much of dupery, was never ascertained. The Woodlanders
Sometimes misinformation, exaggerated fictions and relics of wartime propaganda are reported in the media.
The first is that the effect is exaggerated by plotting wealth on a logarithmic scale.
The independence of the rural dweller is a bit exaggerated in this day and age. How Should We Be Thinking About Urbanization? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
It was a mark of beauty in Lambanein to have what they called an egret’s neck; the arthygater didn’t possess one, so she exaggerated it by other means. Wildfire
An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.
Like most inexperienced people," ran his notes, "I was astonished at the reported feats of men in war; I believed they were exaggerated, and that there was a kind of unpremeditated conspiracy of silence about their real behaviour. The Research Magnificent
I double-hate Fabio's dish because he keeps calling it a "booger" in his accent, which seems to be even more exaggerated than it was on his first season on the show, just sayin'. Top Chef All-Stars Ep. 9: Fondue and Fallon
I embellished the tale with a baroque gaudery of exaggerated facts and fantastic detail.
What follows is a description of each lesson: I have not embellished or exaggerated anything, or imported any apocryphal incidents.
I mean look at cave art, these are all very exaggerated caricatures of bison with teeny, weeny heads, huge humps, they don't look like real bison.
The technocracy's acquisition of power via the state and the progression of exaggerated secularization have combined to give rise to a number of social phenomena which have themselves become social determinants.
The injection of tricks into this exaggerated style of b-ball works splendidly.
One of these, the "araba," is an heirloom from their old Tartar ancestry, and is only an exaggerated ox-cart with seats, and a scaffolding of poles around it. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873
The rims of my glasses are brown and a tad pointy—an unexaggerated cat-eye shape with tortoiseshell arms that tuck behind my ears. Non-Granny Reading Glasses
Wilbur loaded his Mauser with an exaggerated but surprisingly able movement and advanced toward the henhouse in an absurd crouch.
They argue that the problem does not exist, or has been grossly exaggerated, and they call the reformers alarmists, fanatics, scaremongers, prophets of doom and so on.
E-commerce hasn't significantly altered consumer behavior, experts say, adding that the death of malls was exaggerated.
Bressler had, it was plain, been promptly informed, and Anthony's condition exaggerated rather than understated. IN LOVE AND WAR
His claims to an intimacy with the President are somewhat exaggerated.
-- The death of online office suites is greatly exaggerated. Coffee Break: Dec. 19
It is strange that this exaggerated weight attributed to Islam, stands in sharp contradiction with their idealistic European notion of 'indiscrimination'. Gates of Vienna
The shift is even more exaggerated when they're not happy with their current partners, said Kristina Durante, a social psychologist at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Presumably, the increased chaperone need is induced by exaggerated gill protein denaturation in response to elevated body temperatures during emersion.
I note that book publishing itself is becoming much more honest, truthful, unimpeachable, authentic, and precise about everything from numbers of books sold to the unvarnished, unexaggerated, unerring, and unaffected stories it tells as all who toil and sweat in this scrupulous business strive as best we can to maintain the veracious sheen-of-sham and hocus pocus so inherently attached like Superglue to our equivocated reputations for flimflam and fiddle-dee-dee. Obscure Books, Part II - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com
A close reading of the document suggests, however, that the threat has been exaggerated.
His ire was reserved for the exaggerated and superficial aspects of American style, such as neon-lit motels, drive-ins, cars with fins, and stove-pipe trousers.
The revenue figures may be slightly exaggerated .
- a little extravagant, exaggerated perhaps, as you must have noticed, signora. MURKY SHALLOWS
In his responsum, Radbaz wrote that Simhah “exaggerated on the measures to be taken when writing that [the wifebeater] should be forced by non-Jews (akum) to divorce his wife ... because [if she remarries] this could result in the offspring [of the illegal marriage, according to Radbaz] being declared illegitimate (mamzer)” (part 4, 157). Wifebeating in Jewish Tradition.
And "there is no doubt," therefore, "that his exaggerated boldness and 'celerity' in decision making contributed to the American plunge into what General Omar Bradley was later to call 'frankly a great military disaster' and 'the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong enemy."' 'The New War Over Hiroshima': An Exchange
If outflung arms and exaggerated rolling steps suggested pilgrimage, later passages saw the apparently infirm passed forward from one dancer to another.
His claims to an intimacy with the President are somewhat exaggerated.
Carol's accusations are paranoid, exaggerated and ruinously unfair; but the play's genius is that her analysis of the smug patriarchy that frustrates her is unsettlingly acute.
When judicial matters are one of the principal foci of borough and national records, we unavoidably receive an impression, not so much exaggerated as unbalanced, of the misdemeaning or felonious conduct of townsmen.
The new disease called morbus Thomsenii, of which I wrote in my report last year, has been carefully studied by several men of eminence, and the following conclusions have been reached as to its pathology: The weight of the evidence seems to prove that it is of a neuropathic rather than a myopathic nature, and that it depends on an exaggerated activity of the nervous apparatus which produces muscular tone, and that it has much analogy to the muscular phenomena of hysterical hypnosis, the genesis of which is precisely explained by a functional hyperactivity of the nervous centers of muscular activity. Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885
The rumours that this weblog is secretly written by a teenage prostitute masquerading as a 37 year old comedian are greatly exaggerated.
This is the Cornwall of myth, a clichéd caricature version of the county complete with exaggerated eccentrics, loony local lore and mystical happenings.
Syria and Palestine, another ancient focus of abominations, borrowed from Egypt and exaggerated the worship of androgynic and hermaphroditic deities. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
If there is a problem, I think it is mightily exaggerated.
It metaphorises cyberpunk's social instabilities into an alarming maelstrom of biological uncertainty: exaggerated clarity becomes exaggerated anxiety.
Furthermore, by inbreeding his livestock he fixed and exaggerated those traits he felt to be desirable.
When Rocky received this somewhat exaggerated and highly unfavorable profile of them he assigned three of his heaviest hitters to consummate the transaction.
The women in non-fiction chick lit possess all the cartoonish and exaggerated qualities of chick-lit heroines, and none of the complexity of real women.
The song traces calypso history with flawless research and in unexaggerated terms.
The boy, hapless but lovable, is drawn with exaggerated features, thick lips and wide-open eyes. Balloon Juice » 2005 » June
pietism," of what is foolishly called "goody-goody," has long been abroad; a grievously exaggerated dread; a mere parody of rightful jealousy for sincerity in religion. Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians
So also among the Normans we find the barons originally amusing one another with "gabs," _i. e._ boastful and exaggerated accounts of their achievements. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour
It's retro kitsch, wonderfully camp, gleefully perverse and exaggerated and utterly great fun throughout.
Patellar reflexes were markedly exaggerated on both sides, the left more so than the right, and ankle clonus was present on the left side. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
The revenue figures may be slightly exaggerated .
Its characters were real, its snapshot of ridiculous suburban sprawl was very real, its depiction of family togetherness, though exaggerated for dramatic effect, was also very real.
An exaggerated foreface, or a noticeably short foreface, disturbs the proper balance of the head and is not desirable. Undefined
That imbalance in brain chemicals also could lead to exaggerated responses to stress, resulting in extreme fatigue.
A simple calculation based on the amount of energy needed to flood New York suggested the claim was exaggerated.
claims of turmoil within the firm are greatly exaggerated
If I were crazy enough I'd even go as far to say they're more sexually empowered than other female toons, an epitome of which is the physically exaggerated hussy Jessica Rabbit.
We see, here, a politics of masculinity, its currency that of resentment transmuted into exaggerated self-assertion.
Someone has an exaggerated notion of the Di Benedetto wealth -- ` THE GOLDEN LION
Schumann's claim of a high degree of thematic ‘interrelatedness’ in the symphony's four movements is perhaps somewhat exaggerated.
His style is often adagial or exaggerated, and we are constantly meeting such sentences as; History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2)
In addition to tackling fraudulent and exaggerated claims, we must improve the quality of justice for genuinely injured parties.
In the innocent butterfly, who lives on the juice of flowers, the digestive tube terminates externally in a sort of _trunk, _ twisted in several convolutions, which is nothing more than an exaggerated elongation of the two jaws, which become hollow within, and form a tube when joined together. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals
In the summer of 2007 I reported from the Aspen Institute upon the "Death Of Newspapers Greatly Exaggerated," as put forth by William Dean Singleton, the chief bottle-washer at MediaNews Group, owner of the Denver Post, the San Jose Mercury, and multiple other newspapers across the country. Michael Conniff: Con Games: Singleton's ShamWow Strategy
But these difficulties should not be exaggerated: most of them are, after all, suffered by the plaintiff as well.
Meanwhile, though rumours of a Spinal Tap sequel are exaggerated, the band do plan a London concert this summer.
When the car's occupants remain motionless, the woman gives an exaggerated shrug before advancing to the quatre-quatre* just behind us. French Word-A-Day:
He greeted his mother with an exaggerated hug which she barely returned.
We also went through a spate of "millennial" thinking, that quirky habit of the mind which finds special significance in numbers of years, and gets exaggerated as the numbers become portentous.
Fears may be exaggerated, but unless companies are completely open, they face potential PR disasters ahead.
Reports of his drinking have been wildly exaggerated.
The countenances range from human to somewhat animal-like to simply weird; most are done in a unique style, with sharply cut, striking features and exaggerated eyes.
In satire, things tend to be exaggerated and overblown for effect.
His exaggerated body movements and words remind me of a gamecock.
One senses the strain by which the vivisectionist is exaggerated almost to the point of caricature.
I wonder whether the widely-presupposed centrality of snow in Inuit culture might be just as exaggerated as the widely-asserted numerousness of their snow words.
Unfortunately, its comedy potential is sapped from the start by overacting and exaggerated direction.
Color is exaggerated to flamboyantly illustrate the wild characteristics of the creatures being depicted while in flight or cooly assessing us. Tracey Harnish: Lori La Mont: The Status Symbol of Sports
The entire film is an exaggerated study in brainless women being used for decorative purposes, but it's so damn lousy that I can't even muster up any reactionary feminist offense to it. June 27th, 2005
Unsteady figures cannoned into us, apologizing at once with a fine florid courtesy and sweeping exaggerated bows as we moved towards the Grill.
Her elaborate headpiece looked like a much exaggerated crown.
- a little extravagant, exaggerated perhaps, as you must have noticed, signora. MURKY SHALLOWS
He objects, with some justification, to the raggedness of Shakespeares plays, the irrelevancies, the incredible plots, the exaggerated language: but what at bottom he probably most dislikes is a sort of exuberance, a tendency to takenot so much a pleasure as simply an interest in the actual process of life. Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
Long Day's Journey" is, after all, a five-character, one-set play, and even though four of the characters are members of a theatrical family, their intramural sniping is easier to take — and to sympathize with — when presented on the unexaggerated scale enabled by the Touchstone Theatre and encouraged by John Langs, the director of this production. Little House in the Big Woods
Rolling his eyes, he moved to join Max in his excavations, sighing in exaggerated martyrdom.
These figures have been greatly exaggerated.
This exaggerated elevator swash mix will accomplish the same function of a 140 CCPM radio setting.
The plantar and patellar reflexes were much exaggerated, and there was ankle clonus, most marked in the left limb. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
There were exaggerated expectations for one thing, a more or less inevitable consequence of those golden years.
Because of this exaggerated pressure and release, curb bits impede true feel and understanding between you and your horse.
The contribution that these charities have made in helping form the monstrous view that Israel is a demonic aggressor rather than the historic victim of exterminatory aggression – a viewpoint which has unleashed the current wave of Jew-hatred in Britain and the west – cannot be exaggerated. The ugly face of bigoted Britain
I don't want to belabor the mercury discussion, but I'd like to point out why the hazards are not exaggerated.
White-male fears of reverse discrimination have been widely exaggerated.Sentence dictionary
In the case of greenfinches and bullfinches, which, like starlings, have relatively massive outer primaries, molt rate is exaggerated (steeper slope) during the early part of molt and underestimated later.
The significance of their schema has been exaggerated.
According to analysts, any bit of good news in this climate elicits an exaggerated reaction in an oversold market that's coming off a slew of negative pre-announcements.
In his revisionary account, the received view that Indian cricket was fathered by Lord Harris is shown up as greatly exaggerated.
When the chin is forward the front of the head becomes higher and the neck is curved in an exaggerated bend.
Much of the censure is coming from an "infrastructure ü ber alles" crowd that too readily ignores that the costs of these big projects are often grossly underestimated and their benefits significantly exaggerated. Christie Is Right About the Hudson River Big Dig
From a distance, it smells as if the national-security hoop-de-do about the Valerie Plame leak is exaggerated.
The problem has been exaggerated out of all proportion.
Philippa's fear was exaggerated, as if a bridge had started to collapse under her.
Then suddenly visualising the poor beasts lying stiff in congealed blood, and the mailman's exaggerated description of trees black with crows, she flamed out in wrathful horror, and was as anxious as her husband that the perpetrators of the crime should be brought to justice. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
In some cases they could just as easily be in black and white for all the viewer may recall, and they are almost without exception inflected with memorable, sometimes exaggerated effects.
In keeping with Finder's emotionally realistic tone, the artwork avoids the heavily thewed men and exaggerated supermodel women beloved of superhero comics.
I don't want to belabor the mercury discussion, but I'd like to point out why the hazards are not exaggerated.
However, the corrosive effect of such exposure to classical culture must not be exaggerated.
She has an exaggerated sense of her own importance.
I'll admit, I think it's often exaggerated greatly for that purpose, but such exaggeration doesn't negate it's existence.
Humans show false strength with exaggerated postures and overblown words.
Demand for satellite television has been greatly exaggerated.
Danske Bank, which calls the krona the month's worst-performing major currency, says the drubbing is exaggerated. Sweden's Krona Is Victim of Investors' Nerves
The threat of attack has been greatly exaggerated.
According to analysts, any bit of good news in this climate elicits an exaggerated reaction in an oversold market that's coming off a slew of negative pre-announcements.
Inspectors were looking for signs of an outlawed type of abuse known as "soring," which involves injuring horses 'front feet by chemical or mechanical means to achieve an exaggerated gait. Kentucky.com: Homepage
The dense grayness of the room itself had been exaggerated so that the room appeared to have been created from heavy fog. Slice Of Cherry
The behavioral abnormalities include a severe working memory deficit and an exaggerated infradian rhythm, which are similar to symptoms seen in schizophrenia, bipolar mood disorder and other psychiatric disorders. BioMed Central - Latest articles
In an age so dependent on the horse, the depth and width of interest can barely be exaggerated.
Architecturally its bigness was exaggerated by the close spacing of the aluminium structure shooting upwards from the Gothic arches at the base.
The barn swallow has figured largely in studies of sexual selection and exaggerated traits.
This exaggerated elevator swash mix will accomplish the same function of a 140 CCPM radio setting.
Giant gorgonian fans, enormous corals and exaggerated sponges decorated the wall.
The standing totem with ammonite head attachments that extend like an exaggerated chignon is a universal female spirit fashioned by an acclaimed California artist who also happens to be a friend. The Virgin dialogue - an excerpt from the book: Agave Marias
Some Japanese politicians periodically inflame Chinese anger by saying accounts of past atrocities are exaggerated.
The increase in foreign exchange assets is of course exaggerated to a significant extent by revaluation following the weakening of the greenback. The Hindu - Front Page
Once the patterns are established, the recognizer can make the matches and guess that a speaker is angry because they are speaking louder and with exaggerated emphasis.
No, I think the analysis of this is kind of a little bit of a payback for the exaggerated notion of a lame duck.
The fact undeniably is, that these variations are almost wholly abnormal -- mere exaggerated characteristics, induced in the first instance, perhaps, by high cultivation and close in-and-in breeding. Life: Its True Genesis
It may be quite striking, with the head and extremities exhibiting gross, irregular oscillations exaggerated by voluntary movements.
I like unexaggerated intercourse; it is not my way to overpower with amorous epithets, any more than to worry with selfishly importunate caresses. The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
Have feminists met their burden of proof in any substantive way, rather than simply denying, minimising, dismissing, or ignoring the proportion of the burden of war that falls upon men, while regurgitating in ever more exaggerated terms the exaggerations of other feminists? Bikinis and Burkas
England in Ireland has been enormously exaggerated and overcoloured by Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question
Its influence, though incalculable, is not in the slightest danger of being exaggerated. Unprintable
On the other hand, his evil repute has been wildly exaggerated by careless journalists and their local informants, who seek to embellish their limited acquaintance with a "desperado"; with the result that the real man has been virtually entombed by tale and legend which since his death has petrified as myth. An Epic of the Everglades
On bended knees, he begs him - in the exaggerated speech he has learned from the books on chivalry - to dub him a knight.
He said at times a racial incident would be exaggerated and people would say South Africa was still "engulfed" in racism. ANC Daily News Briefing
The historical significance of these events can be easily exaggerated .
The architectural changes involve differences from normal structure, such as clustering and crowding of tubules, an exaggerated villous surface pattern, or the appearance of bridges of cells that cross lumens.
While some of Germany's neighbors, like nuclear-dependent France, home to the giant contractor Areva, criticize Mrs. Merkel for what they call an exaggerated, knee-jerk reaction, Germans seem determined to move toward a postnuclear economy - even though they acknowledge the switch will be expensive. NYT > Global Home
Intelligent mariners know how to calculate the force neceflary to break off (hort the main-matt of a man of war; and can judge whether 1 have exaggerated in ratine the velocity of the wind* is the raoft violent tempefts, at 150 feet in a fecond. The Monthly Review
In too many cases, popular games feature animated female characters scantily clad and with exaggerated feminine attributes.
In fact, at the root-of the problem are the exaggerated importance attached to credits and certification, the educational monopoly claimed by schools, the tendency to "contuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new". Chapter 7
The estimate was exaggerated in proportion to the original exaggeration of the size of the fleet.
So instead of "The nature of youth is thoughtless and sanguine, and therefore &c.," we can write, "The danger of the voyage was depreciated and the beauty of the island exaggerated by _the thoughtless nature of youth_. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition
The average estimate may give an exaggerated impression of the enduring loss of productive capacity.
Nevertheless her indebtedness should not be exaggerated; the ill consequences were more the result of China's inelastic revenue system than of the real burden of foreign debt, which amounted only to one tael per capita.
He is famous for the low-down tactic of setting up imaginary, exaggerated villains and dangers and then heroically shooting them down.
The new disease called morbus Thomsenii, of which I wrote in my report last year, has been carefully studied by several men of eminence, and the following conclusions have been reached as to its pathology: The weight of the evidence seems to prove that it is of a neuropathic rather than a myopathic nature, and that it depends on an exaggerated activity of the nervous apparatus which produces muscular tone, and that it has much analogy to the muscular phenomena of hysterical hypnosis, the genesis of which is precisely explained by a functional hyperactivity of the nervous centers of muscular activity. Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885

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