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Sentence Examples Even artists who sought a new and hard realism, kept a good deal of Expressionist distortion and exaggeration in their work. I'll admit, I think it's often exaggerated greatly for that purpose, but such exaggeration doesn't negate its existence. Without exaggeration, more than half the audience were on their feet cheering. It would be no exaggeration to say that, in the history of Bulgarian sport, weightlifting has been the country's strength. He said the admission that some civil servants went for ten years without being given permanent jobs, was not an exaggeration. Sailors have long reported sightings of these waves, but reports had mainly been dismissed either as exaggeration or outright fibs. The jagged Caucasus reared above these lush hills and even before Mestia it was clear that Svaneti's fabled splendour was no exaggeration. To say that Ford was in the same class as Sidney Smith as a letter writer would be an exaggeration but not by much. To suggest that Scotland would become an open door for crooks, conmen and other criminals is a gross exaggeration. Although English is generally touted as the lingua franca in Fiji, all sociolinguistic research to date has shown this to be an exaggeration. I guess it was an exaggeration of the collective myths all families spin around themselves. 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. A common awfulizing exaggeration uses the words always or never, incorrectly and inaccurately. He returned to characters who offered identification even though it was mostly via melodramatic exaggeration. It would be a melodramatic exaggeration for me to say that I fight this battle within myself every day. Calling the tendency toward top-heaviness predictable in organizational behavior may be an exaggeration. The size of the military forces of the opposing militias has been subject to exaggeration. Frankly it's difficult to know where to start, given the mishmash of misunderstanding, gross exaggeration and things that are just plain wrong. The editor says, perhaps with some poetic exaggeration, that he was the first and is now the last Blairite in Italy. More than half a century later the country has moved from understatement to groundless exaggeration. Show More Sentences He was masterful and imaginative, but his masterfulness tended to ungenerousness and his imagination to vagary and mischievous exaggeration. Well, I think, to some extent, the liberal media was always a myth and exaggeration. Some of the other matters about exaggeration, invention of untrue stories and so forth, may arguably contravene the section. This would end the current frequent practice of simply allowing a reduced award in cases of exaggeration or partial untruths by claimants. Accounts of this violence, made worse by exaggeration, created a national uproar. If you think that's an exaggeration, something very similar happened to former ITN newsreader Julia Sommerville a few years back. Boris' editorial was marked out by the brouhaha, twisted facts and exaggeration characteristic of British Conservatives in debate. 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. No exaggeration or vilification directed their way is too outrageous for consideration. He is an exaggeration of the Australian hero's character and an extreme example of ockerism. 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. With pantomimic exaggeration, the Lord gestures to his left and then to his right. It is not an exaggeration to say that for several generations of film-makers and cinephiles, Bergman practically defined cinema. But it would be a pardonable exaggeration to say that, for most writers, greedy to learn and emulate, this is the only important question. Well, that is a bit of an exaggeration, but I will be briskly perambulating. I repeatedly said also that I did not accuse the Government of fabrication, but of exaggeration. Under the cloak of anonymity, anyone is much more likely to fall into speculation, exaggeration, or outright falsehood. It is no exaggeration to say that the territorial imperative has been the main impulse driving the aggressive behavior of nation-states. One of his more obvious characteristics is his inclination towards exaggeration. I think, with all due respect, there is often a lot of exaggeration about the confidential nature of undercover material. Show More Sentences It is not an exaggeration to say the platypus is Australia's most curious creature. He is, however, also particularly prone to exaggeration, which may make others think of him as ridiculous. My list is somewhat more reliable than that unchecked serial exaggeration of Eskimo snow vocabulary you hear so much about. What is behind the riot of words, the exaggeration of images, their total gratuitousness? We are concerned about these stories which seem to be a gross exaggeration of the facts. I think it would be a gross exaggeration to say there are difficulties all over the country with them. To suggest that it would become an open door for crooks, conmen and other criminals is a gross exaggeration. The statement was an exaggeration of course, but Mama never admitted to anything less than perfection. What is of note from some of these is the exaggeration which leads to half-truth or lies that is being communicated. Here the play took off, and the exaggeration of the suits, which their hyperbolic language, seemed apt to text and production. This is an exaggeration, but it may not be a gross exaggeration, so far as general observations about the human condition are concerned. She also had the exceptional ability to recall vividly small incidents in her life, and recount them without any exaggeration. This, of course, is expressed in poetry, in which hyperbolism and exaggeration is the fundamental law. It would not be an exaggeration to describe the tenor of the letter as being somewhat desperate. It is no exaggeration to say the town was being torn apart by suspicion, rumour and accusation during my visit there in November. These individuals have vivid imaginations, love to weave stories and tales, and are prone to exaggeration. See, I'm prone to exaggeration, or at least overstating an argument. It is a showpiece for the basso's humor and dramatic exaggeration. Wolf is about the American Dream gone haywire, so exaggeration is the name of the game. 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. Show More Sentences While this production occasionally succumbs to staginess, often it plays to the text's strengths by using slight movements offset by moments of deliberate exaggeration. 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. Satire is an exaggeration of the truth, not the mockery of falsehood. There's exaggeration and mythification here, not surprisingly. The florid brushwork of a constable gets hypertrophied in Freud, into a kind of gross exaggeration of what unleashed paint can do. Nevertheless, it is no exaggeration to say that whither Rafsanjani goes, so goes the future of Iran. The teacher should attempt to shade and color the harmonies with as much exaggeration as possible to lead the student into a more musical realization of the work. Yet it is no exaggeration to say that the mechanical reaper had as significant an impact on American society as any other invention in the country's history. The film, banned in Iran itself, is raw, unpolished yet crafted, its script plain and unpretentious, lending its scenes a sense of reality with no impression of exaggeration. Voters have been misled by exaggeration and demonization from both sides this election season, writes Michael Medved. And this big box that encloses him is only an exaggeration of his regular nerd-dandy clothes. It is no exaggeration to say that the way society deals with drugs is shifting more quickly than ever before. Yes, this is an exaggeration, but not an unrecognisable one. I know, you're thinking, there you go again with the gross exaggeration. This picture, stripped of its moral overtones and exaggeration, is an essentially accurate portrayal of the modally different work motivations of miners and surfacemen. 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. Well perhaps that's somewhat of an exaggeration but you get my drift! In spite of the exaggeration, hyperbolism, and excessiveness, the fabliaux embody an authentic, deep sense of realism. It might be an exaggeration to say that Henrik Larsson is demob happy. Yet it is no exaggeration to say this lanky Texan with prodigious talent fired a huge salvo in the thawing of the Cold War. Show More Sentences 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. The interpretation of the city's controlled power cuts by the newspaper as representing apocalyptic cracks in Shanghai's foundations was a gross exaggeration. Then she sang, with an exaggeration of her native gallousness, several sentimental ballads of the day. It's not an exaggeration to say that tonight's guest at Boombox is one of house music's living legends. Her story contains a grain of truth but also lots of exaggeration. She described her accomplishments without exaggeration or vanity. It depicted Nast bowing with cartoonistic exaggeration before the American minister to Chile. Freud is rumoured to have fathered as many as forty children although this number is generally accepted as an exaggeration. In these works, Voltaire's ironic style, free of exaggeration, is apparent, particularly the restraint and simplicity of the verbal treatment. In all such pictures we must allow a good deal for exaggeration both ways, but there must be a groundwork of truth. While the figure of 4,500 victims has generally been accepted, some scholars regard it as an exaggeration. A blue-eyed cowboy with curved, sexalicious lips, her friend had added, licking her own in exaggeration. No exaggeration, Ronaldo is one of the two best footballers in the world. In a few brief weeks it seemed London passed from absolute unsuspiciousness to a chattering exaggeration of its knowledge of our relations. I feel egoistically happy that our criticism of the AKP was neither an overreaction nor an exaggeration. At one point I didn't leave my house for three months so it's no exaggeration to say Guide Dogs gave me my life back. Another option available to the owner is to file a counterclaim against the lienor for willful exaggeration of the lien. Alfadhel possessed a fleet mare, called in the language of Oriental exaggeration, the Outstripper of the wind. One common belief about moles is that they typically consume their own weight in food every 24 hours, but this is an exaggeration. Around John Cowane's time there is an account which states there were about 30,000 Scots families living in Poland although that was possibly an exaggeration. Show More Sentences He produced an intelligent estimate of the resources of Canada, both natural and human, albeit with a considerable exaggeration of its mineral wealth. Fortunately for all of us, the rhetoric of both cultural pessimism and postmodernism contains more than its fair share of exaggeration and overgeneralization. It won't be a exaggeration if we compare his acting with Kamal's classic Rajapaarvai or Moondram Pirai, the actor is sure to go places after this movie and deserves an award. Well, to say that you'll find a Strad is a slight exaggeration. He doubtless incorporates elements of exaggeration in his works and has at times been described as more of an artist or politician than historian. It's no exaggeration to say that the Keystone XL pipeline might be under construction today were it not for the determined resistance of Nebraskans. Yet the whole notion of a Berber apprenticeship to the Punic civilization has been called an exaggeration sustained by a point of view fundamentally foreign to the Berbers. Examples from Classical Literature There had been no exaggeration, and he returned to Boulogne more disturbed than ever. They protect from exaggeration and abuse the liberty already defended from legalistic encroachments. I should think the quantity of water at Niagara would make five hundred such falls as those of Terni, without exaggeration. It is no exaggeration to say that everything went like a well-oiled machine. The glide seems to be the ideal at which the modern woman aims in her walk, and the mannequin glides with every exaggeration. It is chiefly on the libertarian side that I find a tendency to the exaggeration of which I have just spoken. If they are superfluous and out of place, the absence of exaggeration or absurdity negatives their classification as choreic. It looks like an exaggeration or as if the typesetter had slipped in several extra ciphers by mistake, does it not? But the misjudgment and the depression of the insane are only an exaggeration of that which may occur in any man. In the ontological argument we have the most striking instance of such rationalistic exaggeration of the powers of thought. The greatest blemish of the conversation and manners of the young people of to-day is obtrusiveness and exaggeration. It is, after all, an exaggeration to say that nothing is left of Veii or of Fiden. It is no exaggeration to say that Comstockery is the arch enemy of society. Without exaggeration, it is permissible to conject that its scope extended over twenty-five centuries. The decisiveness of the psalmist's conviction does not lead him to exaggeration. In hope that she would be deterred by exaggeration, he dwelt on the subject. It would be no exaggeration to describe this Department as scenically the most beautiful in the Republic of Salvador. But unfortunately exaggeration happened to be inherent in the draftsmanship of both Cruikshank and Browne. All this was excessively irritating, and needed no exaggeration from abroad. Such an apologue is literally no exaggeration of the facts of English history. Show More Sentences No defect is extenuated, nor is there any patriotic exaggeration of merits. Without such exaggeration, America may justly claim the contribution of automaticity to the Machine of Civilization. The result is a sort of accumulative lie, made by successive individual contributions of little dashes of exaggeration. It would perhaps be an exaggeration to say that Plymouth Rock is a chicken. Herodian says, no doubt with some exaggeration, that this was the greatest calamity which had ever befallen the Romans. Then no exaggeration was too absurd for him, no phantasm too unreal, no climax too extreme. Apart from the inevitable Smollett exaggeration, a better portrait of a softish young attorney could hardly be painted. We have here an example of this adventurer's style of exaggeration and hyperbole. I tried to be conservative in my description, because I did not wish to be accused of exaggeration. In all dealing with this problem of young people, we must beware of overemphasis or exaggeration. It is a manner full of exaggeration and overemphasis, but with some remarkable rhetorical qualities and a good deal of colour. That was a whimsical exaggeration of what perhaps had a kern of truth in it. Almost without exaggeration, he may be said to see what the rhapsodist in Volney saw. Everything was then viewed without metaphysics, without exaggeration, without magnifying glass, with the naked eye. And through all Carlyle's exaggeration and waywardness of diction we find that note ring clear again and again. There was no note of boasting, no color of exaggeration in her manner. The size of the cetacea has been subjected to much exaggeration. There is much to relieve the remark of Mayor Otis from exaggeration. The struggle in the smoke had pictured an exaggeration of itself on the bleached cheeks and in the eyes wild with one desire. Search Party 93mins 15 IT REALLY isn't an exaggeration to say Search Party is about as funny as a chronic skin rash. Show More Sentences And she did not wish to fall into exaggeration, to be hypercritical. Tragic as that history seemed to her passionate and undisciplined mind, she told it truthfully and without exaggeration. This is the language of passionate exaggeration, one might say. It's no exaggeration to say that Richard Switzer is on the filmmaking fast track. Mrs. Trollope has described it for us with very little exaggeration. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. There is no poetic license, no picturesque exaggeration in this statement. But in a confederacy the people, without exaggeration, may be said to be entirely the masters of their own fate. The theatre of plethora, the theatre of exaggeration and excess, approaches the formal condition of formlessness. There are elements of surprise, exaggeration, uncomfortableness, incongruity, misdirection, and a little bit of a naughty feeling all rolled into one. How wearisome the grammarian, the phrenologist, the political or religious fanatic, or indeed any possessed mortal whose balance is lost by the exaggeration of a single topic. It is an essential part of every national character to pique itself mightily upon its faults, and to deduce tokens of its virtue or its wisdom from their very exaggeration. In whatever light she viewed the conduct or disposition of her cousin, she was met by obstinate facts that admitted of no cavil nor of any exaggeration. In these and other areas, excellent descriptions expose the dangers of exaggeration when Balanchine's teaching is followed slavishly but not fully understood. The thing itself is an exaggeration of nastiness, which cannot be outdone. The general belief that immense fortunes were made by the lucky holders of Bell stock, is an exaggeration that has been kept alive by the promoters of wildcat companies. She had prefigured to herself, even with exaggeration, the disgust of her friends, and she had even feared that Celia might be kept aloof from her. The unfortunate bee-hunter and his companions had become the captives of a people, who might, without exaggeration, be called the Ishmaelites of the American deserts. Robert later declared, probably with some bitter exaggeration, that his life had combined 'the cheerless gloom of a hermit with the unceasing moil of a galley slave. In this instance, the worthy, and important, message is poorly served by a medium seemingly overanxious to avoid accusations of exaggeration by relying on clichd depictions. Show More Sentences The range of acting styles, which run from amateurish exaggeration to Dukakis's almost Method-like muttering, gives this production a wobbly diffuseness. Find more words! 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