How To Use Exaggeration In A Sentence

  • That's why I contend, with just a soupçon of exaggeration, that Britain's big choice will be made on May 29.
  • One wonders how Ecevit, with his exaggeration and selective memory, can have an objective and nonaggressive attitude toward a fair solution in Cyprus. Europe's Highs And Lows
  • There was nothing but mud-slinging, exaggerations, outright lies and immature namecalling.
  • Latin courtesy is a highly refined art, of which exaggeration is a part. Communicating In Latin America
  • In his letters, as in conversation, he offers himself no sanctuary, and the picture we are left to gather is an exaggeration of the facts: cold, hard, captious, rarely affectionate, often gloomy.
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  • I repeatedly said also that I did not accuse the Government of fabrication, but of exaggeration.
  • Even at this stage of the campaign, labelling this a 'six-pointer' did not represent an exaggeration. Times, Sunday Times
  • My sense of proportion left me; my judgment took on the grotesque exaggerations of a cruel cartoon.
  • My story was true and relatable until the French-fry exaggeration. How to Write Like a Cartoonist
  • There are a few exaggerations, but none to be alarmed at, as they are frankly made for exportation. Times, Sunday Times
  • Indeed, it's almost certainly no exaggeration to suggest that some foolhardy bar-stool all-rounder with a few too many stouts on board has already claimed in all sincerity to understand the complexities of the Duckworth-Lewis method. Ireland expected England to hurl abuse in defeat, not throw flowers | Barry Glendenning
  • It is a comic exaggeration of an entirely believable relationship. Times, Sunday Times
  • Of course, there's certain exaggeration in this, but what does that mean to the current American team? China's Oprah: Yang Lan
  • I, myself, am really just a parody and exaggeration of the entity that is me.
  • What were called the exaggerations of his writing were due, I have no doubt, to the extraordinary luminosity of his imagination. What I Remember
  • Well, I think, to some extent, the liberal media was always a myth and exaggeration.
  • They'll most likely tell you to knock on your neighb's door and politely ask them to take it outside: - / kylewritescode answered: There was a case a while back where two lawyers sued their neighbor for smoking in her apartment … maybe give People's Firehouse a call. ironknickers answered: yeah man! more so if you say you have a family history of medical illness's related to smoking, even Second hand. mills answered: It depends on your willingness to 'medicalize' your discomfort by claiming illness; exaggeration (or lying) in this area is rewarded. skyl answered: i would hope so. that disgusting pasty answered: Yes. Marco.org
  • Although probably he doesn't: humorous exaggeration is part of Steyn's shtick. How Europe Goes Wrong, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • This, of course, is expressed in poetry in which hyperbolism, exaggeration, is the fundamental law.
  • A rabbit has been calculated to possess one-hundred-million olfactory receptors-small wonder its little schnozz is always twitching, it is trapped in an undulating blizzard of aromatic stimuli-and Marcel "Bunny" LeFever was reputed, with some exaggeration, to be the human equivalent of Peter Cottontail. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
  • You can't get a real idea of the noise and the atmosphere, and that's no exaggeration or an old fuddy-duddy thinking that everything was better in the good old days.
  • It would not be an exaggeration to say I am in some awe of this lady; she is facing a difficult time in her life with courage, common sense and humour.
  • We need not go far to find how deeply rooted this tendency is and to what exaggerations it will sometimes lead. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • It would not be an exaggeration to describe him as ‘a man for all seasons’ when it comes to his thysanopteran research endeavours.
  • Never accuse a reviewer of dishonesty or exaggeration; erroneous claims are often the result of a misunderstanding, not maliciousness.
  • In truth few have worshipped at that altar and gone forth into chosen ways unmindful of her history, unimbued with her love, or untrained in stating facts — those readily correlated by one and all — such as it has been the effort here to record, some possibly through filial affection a little tinted but in the main void of any intent at exaggeration or misrepresentation. The University of Virginia
  • It might be seen as an exaggeration to say the violin bows are close enough to make you flinch, but it's not far wrong. Times, Sunday Times
  • Indeed, it's almost certainly no exaggeration to suggest that some foolhardy bar-stool all-rounder with a few too many stouts on board has already claimed in all sincerity to understand the complexities of the Duckworth-Lewis method. Ireland expected England to hurl abuse in defeat, not throw flowers | Barry Glendenning
  • Imagination, -- all from which, when it was all his own, he had turned half weary and impatient, and termed the exaggerations of a visionary romance, now that the world had lost them evermore, he interpreted aright as truths. My Novel — Volume 12
  • It is not an exaggeration to say the platypus is Australia's most curious creature.
  • A senior interrogator at Balad, he was considered an intellectual, though his honorific was an exaggeration: He had earned two master’s degrees, one in international relations and another in management. The Ploy
  • The details are too well chronicled to be dismissed as exaggeration, or set aside as a necessary unpleasantness in the struggle. Times, Sunday Times
  • By 2015, academics had coined the phrase "urban neo-Victorian dystopia" to describe the dramatic social and spatial changes in the city they had begun to compare, with only a little exaggeration, with the London described by Charles Dickens 160 years earlier. The Guardian World News
  • “You can always do something in exaggeration,” he said. Death Becomes Him
  • It's no exaggeration to say that we have reached a critical point in our life span as custodians of the club. Times, Sunday Times
  • The statement was an exaggeration of course, but Mama never admitted to anything less than perfection.
  • I then paid her the most extravagant compliments; her senseless chatting I described as unrestraint tempered by finesse, her pretentious exaggerations as a natural desire to please; was it her fault that she was poor? The Confession of a Child of the Century — Complete
  • While all of this exaggeration is going on health care costs are rising, except for Congress of course. GOP reiterates health care displeasure
  • Notice, too, that like good storytellers these advocates embellish the tale with some interesting exaggerations.
  • Nothing short of atrocious" is such an exaggeration. The Last Airbender Movie Trailer #3 | /Film
  • It would be a melodramatic exaggeration for me to say that I fight this battle within myself every day.
  • There were also outrageous exaggerations on the cafeteria scene circulating around the school.
  • What, with careless exaggeration, he had said to a friend some months before, on setting forth his _Elegy on the Death of a Young Man_, "The thing has made my name hereabouts more famous than twenty years of practice would have done; but it is a name like that of him who burnt the Temple of Ephesus: God be merciful to me a sinner!" might now with all seriousness be said of the impression his _Robbers_ made on the harmless townsfolk of Stuttgart. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
  • Cartoon caricatures, slapstick comedy, and clowning articles are all based on exaggeration, she notes.
  • For their credulity, they are showered with lies, exaggerations and half-truths, all of which find a sizable percentage of proponents among the voters.
  • Like, I didn't expect it to happen right away,' he answered with pained exaggeration as if he was addressing a simpleton. BETTER THAN THIS
  • What is of note from some of these is the exaggeration which leads to half-truth or lies that is being communicated.
  • It is no exaggeration to say the town was being torn apart by suspicion, rumour and accusation during my visit there in November.
  • Such a picture is clearly a gross exaggeration.
  • Notwithstanding all exaggeration, Lylly was really a man of wit and imagination, though both were deformed by the most unnatural affectation that ever disgraced a printed page.] -- he, in short, who wrote that singularly coxcomical work, called _Euphues and his England_, was in the very zenith of his absurdity and his reputation. The Monastery
  • The writing of Across the River and into the Trees (or Across the Street and into the Grill as E.B. White retitled it) drew on his wartime experiences and seemed to merge his exaggerations with his fictional hero to the point of self-parody.
  • He was an objective conductor, not prone to exaggeration.
  • Overall, though, despite the blizzard of facts and figures, both candidates generally limited themselves to modest exaggerations and standard issue political puffery.
  • The details are too well chronicled to be dismissed as exaggeration, or set aside as a necessary unpleasantness in the struggle. Times, Sunday Times
  • It would be an exaggeration to call the danger urgent.
  • Sailors have long reported sightings of these waves, but reports had mainly been dismissed either as exaggeration or outright fibs.
  • The details are too well chronicled to be dismissed as exaggeration, or set aside as a necessary unpleasantness in the struggle. Times, Sunday Times
  • A cursory review of the reportage in this conflict reveals misinformation, disinformation, mistakes, exaggerations, lies and propaganda flowing freely in all directions.
  • Frankly it's difficult to know where to start, given the mishmash of misunderstanding, gross exaggeration and things that are just plain wrong.
  • To suggest that Scotland would become an open door for crooks, conmen and other criminals is a gross exaggeration.
  • a wide outlook will help us to avoid exaggerations, preciosities, and fanaticisms. Nature Mysticism
  • I described as unrestraint tempered by finesse, her pretentious exaggerations as a natural desire to please; was it her fault that she was poor? The French Immortals Series — Complete
  • They first unsettle our obedience by discovering what they call the iniquity of our governors; and indeed it is not difficult for those who look with a malignant eye on their conduct to perceive such errors, or, if you will, vices, as an artful and censorious temper may dress up into glaring enormities, especially if it deals in those exaggerations which people, who give up their understandings to the views of a party, call true representations. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel
  • The details are too well chronicled to be dismissed as exaggeration, or set aside as a necessary unpleasantness in the struggle. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's no exaggeration to state that a great assist is the sign of intelligent, team-first basketball, the type of hoops everyone wants to see.
  • It was probably an exaggeration of local usage: a modified separation of the sexes, which extended and still extends even to the Badawi, must long have been customary in Arabian cities, and its object was to deliver the sexes from temptation, as the Koran says (xxxii. 32), “purer will this (practice) be for your hearts and their hearts.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The story generally followed Laila's -- with the normal Gallic exaggeration and dramatization. COVER STORY
  • It's an exaggeration to say that Boswell and his contemporaries would start the day with a tuppeny tart, get blotto at lunchtime and join in a riot on the way home but not much of an exaggeration.
  • This work is full of caricature, exaggeration, and just plain ridiculousness, but in a way, it also feels more real than other manga. Birthday book: Ohikkoshi
  • Among those literary wanderers of the day who sought a wide and appreciative audience, exaggeration was the fashion.
  • I have lost many a thing; and when I was boasting just now that I had everything in my sack, I was guilty of exaggeration, as men of limited capacity are, in the use of the two words _everything_ and _nothing_. Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly
  • I think it would be a gross exaggeration to say there are difficulties all over the country with them.
  • More than half a century later the country has moved from understatement to groundless exaggeration.
  • As one ghastly fact after another comes out, it is for once no journalistic exaggeration to say that a whole country is convulsed by this tragedy. Times, Sunday Times
  • As for the ongoing exaggeration and misrepresentation of Reagan's role, after his first term bellicosity, he did agree to arms control agreements with Gorbachev. Was Gorbachev the Most Influential Man of the Second Half of the 20th Century?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • No exaggeration or vilification directed their way is too outrageous for consideration.
  • Mac, representing him as but little inferior in power of imagination, exaggeration, minification, and downright leasing to the unsurpassable Current Literature
  • The company described reports of environmental disaster as gross exaggeration.
  • The physical examination of the patient revealed certain neurological signs, such as exaggeration of the patellar reflexes, lateral nystagmus of both eyes, which determined us to look further into the question of his physical state, especially in view of a history of luetic infection five years before. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
  • If that seems like an exaggeration from the safer vantage point provided by the perspective of eighteen months, it certainly felt that way at the time. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is an exaggeration, but it may not be a gross exaggeration, so far as general observations about the human condition are concerned.
  • I'll admit, I think it's often exaggerated greatly for that purpose, but such exaggeration doesn't negate it's existence.
  • It would not be an exaggeration to describe the tenor of the letter as being somewhat desperate.
  • I watched MEET THE PRESS this morning and "slam" is an exaggeration. McCain: Obama was wrong on stimulus either then or now
  • These individuals have vivid imaginations, love to weave stories and tales, and are prone to exaggeration.
  • Boris' editorial was marked out by the brouhaha, twisted facts and exaggeration characteristic of British Conservatives in debate.
  • It also represents an exaggeration of the president's military role.
  • But unless there is gross exaggeration or fabrication of symptoms, these should not he described as Meadow's syndrome.
  • The jagged Caucasus reared above these lush hills and even before Mestia it was clear that Svaneti's fabled splendour was no exaggeration.
  • That this riding is a facetious exaggeration of the African practice I find was guessed by Mr. Keightley. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The problem with these kinds of "exaggerations" is they cast doubt on everything else they say. An 8-foot-tall cross in Mojave National Preserve, set up by the VFW in 1934 as a war memorial, maintained by the National Park Service.
  • This island, known now as Japan, was called Cipango, and was supposed to be inexhaustible in riches, especially when the reports of Polo were confirmed by Sir John Mandeville, an English traveller in the time of Edward III., -- and with even greater exaggerations, since he represented the royal palace to be more than six miles in circumference, occupied by three hundred thousand men. Beacon Lights of History
  • Your crusade to unseat them by peddling exaggerations and half-truths lowers you to their level.
  • 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
  • The estimates of migrating salmon invited exaggeration and fantastic stories, but the exceptional harvests by commercial fishers using seines, traps, and fish wheels seemed to justify the tales.
  • Although veering dangerously towards exaggeration, one has to admit: the man may have had a point.
  • This doesn't include any distortions, half-truths, or exaggerations, or any lies told by senior figures in the administration.
  • The estimate was exaggerated in proportion to the original exaggeration of the size of the fleet.
  • While McKinney's fecundating prose absolutely shimmers with style, his tendencies toward self-indulgence, exaggeration, and excess ultimately undo the volume's many promising strands of thought.
  • Jerry Falwell uses the phrase ministerially speaking to joke about his exaggerations of audience size and other numbers. Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism; with an Introduction by T George Harris
  • He was masterful and imaginative, but his masterfulness tended to ungenerousness and his imagination to vagary and mischievous exaggeration.
  • That sounds like a slight exaggeration.
  • The only problem with this report is that it contains flat out misrepresentations, gross exaggerations, flying leaps of logic and claims that cannot stand up to rigorous scrutiny.
  • Most of the time he could dismiss his memories as exaggerations, products of an overactive imagination.
  • Whether he is representing aggression, as in the Massacre of the Innocents, or strength subdued, as in Samson and Delilah, it is possible to use this exaggeration to make his point.
  • But elasticity was put to quite different use at the start of the rondo: in an exaggeration of tempo di menuetto, the strings' pizzicato sounded rather like the snapping of rubber bands.
  • Beneath the cinematic exaggerations and over-statements, there lies a vein of historical truth.
  • Well, okay, maybe labeling Yorke a “normal dude” might be something of an exaggeration. Chuck Klosterman on Pop
  • Basing himself on the realities of his life, the painter successfully integrated realism and artistic exaggeration.
  • But maybe a little exaggeration is expected on a resume. D&D Character Sheet As Resume
  • Food Inc. and the stench of ham-fisted exaggeration Food Inc. and the stench of ham-fisted exaggeration
  • Could it be the posthumous public pronouncements were really only shameless self-serving exaggerations?
  • The nuances, exaggerations and pretences of conversation can be taken literally.
  • Accounts of this violence, made worse by exaggeration, created a national uproar.
  • Some say he's fattening his wallet by what they call alarmism and exaggerations about global warming. CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2009
  • An almost eerie atmosphere of exaggeration haunts these images. Times, Sunday Times
  • Well, that is a bit of an exaggeration, but I will be briskly perambulating.
  • In this instance, the word "spectacular" is not an exaggeration. The Canadian Mineral Industry
  • Someone said later she could feel the bullet tickling her hair as it whizzed by, but that was one of Jill's college friends, who had always been prone to exaggerations. Gunplay
  • It would be an exaggeration to say that we were close friends.
  • I can't say I share your 'Mea Culpa' view re lack of theory ... there is no great question of theory behind the advocacy of the slogan, nor of lack of theory behind our objections to it; and I still think the switching off from class struggle to race struggle an exaggeration, and a departure from Lenin, quite apart from what you call expediency (as if 'theory' were something above expediency or expediency below theory). Sidney Percival Bunting
  • The book is full of invented tales and wild exaggerations of documented events.
  • Breathtaking in their simple beauty, guileless in their natural expressiveness, these early pieces have few of the bizarre exaggerations of character reflected in her subsequent work.
  • ‘Song of the Flea’ is a showpiece for the basso's humor and dramatic exaggeration.
  • The undue compression of type laterally, the exaggeration of thick and thin, the feeble pothook terminations in modern type are due to one form of degeneration being added upon another for some centuries, a tracing of a tracing. 2009 September 20 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
  • In the paternalistic protector role, there is an exaggeration of one's power to the level of omnipotence, self-glorification, self-presumption and self-entitlement.
  • A person who was present gives the following account of Somers's opening speech: "In the opening the evidence, there was no affected exaggeration of matters, nor ostentation of a putid eloquence, one after another, as in former trials, like so many geese cackling in a row. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4
  • It is only an exaggeration to see the urge to criminalize our soon-to-be-former leaders, to make into courtroom drama the tragedy of the last eight years, as an extension of this same practice.
  • It is not an exaggeration to say that for several generations of film-makers and cinephiles, Bergman practically defined cinema.
  • The company described reports of environmental disaster as gross exaggeration.
  • There was an announcement over the weekend that that country would host a conference to examine what it called exaggerations about the Holocaust. CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2006
  • he has a proclivity for exaggeration
  • I guess it was an exaggeration of the collective myths all families spin around themselves.
  • It is no exaggeration to say that some of the actions of the packets and their dauntless crews recall the palmy days of Elizabethan naval prowess and exploits such as that of the immortal _Revenge_. The Cornwall Coast
  • One of the things that made the protests so ugly and unconstructive was the gross exaggeration and the unwillingness of both sides to acknowledge the slightest nugget of merit to the other faction's position.
  • the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness
  • There was a degree of exaggeration in his description of events.
  • Under the cloak of anonymity, anyone is much more likely to fall into speculation, exaggeration, or outright falsehood.
  • Without power of thought, what we call conscientiousness, or a desire to do right, shoots out into illusion, exaggeration, pernicious excess. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
  • Yes, this is an exaggeration, but not an unrecognisable one.
  • Even worse, while typographical errors were maintained, a sprinkling of unfounded exaggerations were inserted to strengthen the claims made in the thesis.
  • These exaggerations are offered to define the limits rather than to present accurate profiles, but they do highlight an educational dilemma.
  • These are gross exaggerations aimed at fanning chauvinism.
  • It would be a bit of an exaggeration to say that I'm desperate to leave.
  • John is rather given to exaggeration.
  • Many refuse, choosing instead to embroider on whatever rumors, exaggerations and pet theories are circulating in the occupied territories.
  • Formula One's McLaren chief Ron Dennis told Autosport magazine: "Paul Newman was one of those very few people for whom the term 'megastar' was no exaggeration: truly, he was a legend of the silver screen. Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • Only a system of taking Christ's words "contrariwise" can make them useful as civil rules, and even "oriental exaggeration" can scarcely be credited with saying the diametrically contrary of its real meaning. The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History
  • Here's a primer on the issues that will help sort through the truths, half-truths, and exaggerations in the coming debate.
  • Their results, even allowing for exaggeration, are impressive.
  • Without exaggeration, it is permissible to conject that its scope extended over twenty-five centuries. Initiation into Literature
  • It is impossible to entirely acquit this otherwise excellent conductor of the charge of an undue and very inartistic exaggeration for the sake of effect.
  • An almost eerie atmosphere of exaggeration haunts these images. Times, Sunday Times
  • Out of that full, free Western life, with its tremendous hazards of fortune, its extravagant alternations from fabulous wealth to wretched poverty, its tremendous exaggerations and incredible contrasts, was evolved a humour as rugged, as mountainous, and as altitudinous as the conditions which gave it birth. Mark Twain
  • It is no exaggeration to say that the territorial imperative has been the main impulse driving the aggressive behavior of nation-states.
  • The tragic end that awaits these characters is the result of an infantile lack of communication, which thrives in the high school environment of exaggeration and gossip.
  • This was his brother-in-law, and one of his elders, Mr. Robert Johnston, married to his sister Violet, a merchant and portioner in Biggar, a remarkable man, of whom it is difficult to say to strangers what is true, without being accused of exaggeration. Spare Hours
  • There was nothing but mud-slinging, exaggerations, outright lies and immature namecalling.
  • Towards the end of the eighteenth century, Kant could say (without much exaggeration) that logic had followed a single path since its inception, and that ˜since Aristotle it has not had to retrace a single step™. Logical Form
  • Incidentally, the above use of ‘martyr’ was no exaggeration or melodramatic affectation.
  • It would be no exaggeration to say that, in the history of Bulgarian sport, weightlifting has been the country's strength.
  • As the forint fell against the euro, the pair apologised for their 'exaggeration'. Times, Sunday Times
  • One of his more obvious characteristics is his inclination towards exaggeration.
  • John is rather given to exaggeration.
  • Here the play took off, and the exaggeration of the suits, which their hyperbolic language, seemed apt to text and production.
  • Its essence was gross and irresponsible exaggeration of a claim that we now know - from the VENONA decrypts of Soviet cables, among other sources - was true.
  • And the fact that he openly courted the left in ginning up anti-war sentiment against President Bush, based on a tissue of lies and exaggerations, is even more telling. Think Progress » “Left-Wing Radical”: Hannity Kicks Off Next Wilson Smear Campaign
  • And it is part of a pattern of exaggerations about exaggerations which is taking a bad turn in this campaign.
  • Such a misperception can lead to "loudness" -- all caps "screaming", hyperbole, exaggeration and such. Trolls, Anger, Taking Offense and One-Hit- Wonders
  • How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world," cried Fox, with the exaggeration of a man ready to dance the carmagnole, "and how much the best! Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
  • Responding in kind to exaggeration or hyperbole is neither “appropriate” nor effective. The Volokh Conspiracy » Never a Good Way to Start Your Argument
  • As far as the gem folks are concerned, it is not much of an exaggeration to say that they see gems as either transparent or opaque.
  • There are one or two medical devices in actual use in which a NASA SBIR grant was awarded during development, but so far as I know they were never used or needed in space, so in those cases the claim that it s spinoff is also an exaggeration. Meet Space Pup, Goddard's Technology Transfer Mascot - NASA Watch
  • I suspect much of the criticism of "so-called liberals" is written by people that know few if any personally and get much of thier information based on exaggerations of hippies living in Haight Ashbury in San Francisco that they've seen on tv. On Hunting and Democracy
  • The scale of the exaggeration is not a factor as long as the contrast against reality is apparent. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Bigness
  • It is probable that this image was modelled from a crudely stuffed bird, or even copied from some other artist, which led to exaggerations of one painter to another. First Day Cover: The Dodo
  • We are concerned about these stories which seem to be a gross exaggeration of the facts.
  • The theory certainly exists that this is an adoption and exaggeration of Western standards of beauty; in a related matter, surgery to remove the epicanthic fold from the eye to make it look larger has been popular in Japan, and the famed animator Hayao Miyazaki once said, controversially, that "the Japanese hate their own faces. Movie Review: Speed Racer
  • He's using exaggeration and hyperbole to be entertaining - lots of writers do that.
  • It's an exaggeration to say that he and his contemporaries would start the day with a tuppenny tart, get blotto at lunchtime and join in a riot on the way home, but not much of an exaggeration.
  • In response to the shareholder lawsuit, Moody's argued that its claims to independence and ratings integrity were just "puffery" - legalese for innocent exaggeration: GlobalResearch.ca
  • The distressing, and to my mind accurate, message that monopolies are putting profit before human and animal health and well being, is potent and distrubing, and would have been much better served without the emotional overkill, the taint of exaggeration; the helping of ham-fisted propaganda. (and okay, enough with the hackneyed food metaphors). Food Inc. and the stench of ham-fisted exaggeration
  • To suggest that it would become an open door for crooks, conmen and other criminals is a gross exaggeration.
  • Your crusade to unseat them by peddling exaggerations and half-truths lowers you to their level.
  • As [the early 20th-century chef/philosopher Auguste] Escoffier explained more than a hundred years ago: cuisine like couture is one of these creative fields that involve exaggeration and insolence. French Master Chef Reinvents His Art
  • For months, we were besieged with exaggerations, accusations, planted stories, and outright lies.
  • It is no exaggeration, I think, to say that the future of the labour movement will be decided by the extent to which it aligns itself with the worldwide struggle against corporate rule.
  • This exaggeration of the function of education expressed by the word multiplicity deserves a little consideration, for it would appear that our educationists overlook the fact that the organism with which they have to deal is going through the most critical period of its existence. The Art of Living in Australia
  • I am persuaded that the phrase 'child abuse' is no exaggeration to use when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom they encourage in something like the punishment of unshriven mortal sins in an eternal hell. — Critics in the Post Wedge World
  • My concern now is if that is an exaggeration the remedies they are suggesting could be an exaggeration so the cuts will cut deeper than necessary.
  • German chauvinism aside, this was a description of the new spirit of romanticism in opera, and it would be no exaggeration to claim for Cherubini the role of co-founder of German romantic opera. Rodney Punt: Medea Takes Revenge in an Abandoned Warehouse
  • But elasticity was put to quite different use at the start of the rondo: in an exaggeration of tempo di menuetto, the strings' pizzicato sounded rather like the snapping of rubber bands.
  • It's exaggeration to absurdity, to a point where it obviously, patently is not meant to be taken literally, for crying out loud. Archive 2006-06-01
  • Basing himself on the realities of his life, the painter successfully integrated realism and artistic exaggeration.
  • The warden dismissed the accusations made by Smith and the other prisoners as lies and exaggerations.
  • Far more serious escapades — levities relating to love, wine, cards, betting — were talked of, with no doubt more or less of exaggeration. A Changed Man
  • The serpent is an exaggeration of the python which grows to an enormous size. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • It is no exaggeration at all to say that the reality of human evolution is now as well established as is the sphericity of the earth.
  • It would not be an exaggeration to say I am in some awe of this lady; she is facing a difficult time in her life with courage, common sense and humour.
  • This picture, stripped of its moral overtones and exaggeration, is an essentially accurate portrayal of the modally different work motivations of miners and surfacemen.

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