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I'll admit, I think it's often exaggerated greatly for that purpose, but such exaggeration doesn't negate its existence.
Every movement of the eyeball becomes exaggerated, and there's a liquidness to the lens itself.
The first is that the effect is exaggerated by plotting wealth on a logarithmic scale.
Upon closer inspection, this claim proves exaggerated, an artifact of exit-poll procedures and inconsistency in question wording.
Gracefully asprawl on the ottoman, in an attitude of almost exaggerated repose, was the boy of the woods.
But if the market falls, the fall in the value of the trust assets is also exaggerated.
He is famous for the low-down tactic of setting up imaginary, exaggerated villains and dangers and then heroically shooting them down.
The artist who carved this elegant example exaggerated the length of the fish's toothed rostrum and streamlined its body.
Such people tend to emphasise the separate status of their religion and attach an exaggerated importance to dress or behaviour.
The lateral sides of the nail plate show exaggerated convexity, the lunula disappears, and the nail takes on a yellow hue.
The tabloids often present a simplified, exaggerated, and personalized view of politics.
She then had the audacity to allege that I had exaggerated the truth in order to win a government grant of 750,000 to improve road safety.
Typical examples of sexually selected traits are the exaggerated long male tails of many birds.
The model train's friendly face, with its exaggerated smile, also helps autistic children's understanding of emotion.
Men do not take machismo's exaggerated masculinity as their model for behavior, which isolates them from friends who do.
Sometimes misinformation, exaggerated fictions and relics of wartime propaganda are reported in the media.
Some people have interpreted these frightening scenes as exaggerated fictions concocted by the Moche to scare enemies.
Rumours of him communicating in bleeps, bloops and squelches are greatly exaggerated.
We need to sift the grain from the chaff and check out whether the allegations of abuse are genuine, exaggerated or altogether mala fide.
There had been a scandalous failure of intelligence gathering behind the exaggerated estimation of Soviet strength.
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Instead he exaggerated, distorted, suppressed and manipulated the information for political ends.
Miles, the more successful, exaggerated the decorative qualities of his father's style to the point of mannerism.
If anything, as with Mantegna and the Italian mannerists, his height is exaggerated.
Rolling his eyes, he moved to join Max in his excavations, sighing in exaggerated martyrdom.
Physiques are exaggerated to illustrate the underlying theme, which is masked masculinity, flowered femininity, or elusive mystery.
When the chin is forward the front of the head becomes higher and the neck is curved in an exaggerated bend.
The rumours that this weblog is secretly written by a teenage prostitute masquerading as a 37 year old comedian are greatly exaggerated.
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.
What we get are incredibly evil criminals who brandish weapons and shoot wantonly at our heroes, along with exaggerated matriarchal stereotypes.
We see, here, a politics of masculinity, its currency that of resentment transmuted into exaggerated self-assertion.
He tends to devalue others in order to maintain his own exaggerated sense of self-importance.
Without any exaggerated sense of self-importance, the 86-year-old surgeon sat in his spartan office room.
The injection of tricks into this exaggerated style of b-ball works splendidly.
The Chief Inspector was furious at the melodrama created and the exaggerated, sinister choice of tone.
It brings Edward's emotional timidness to the forefront, as well as evoking the fairy tale nature and fantastic, exaggerated tone of the film.
His usual perfectly spiked dirty blonde hair was messy and it exaggerated his sharp features.
I don't want to belabor the mercury discussion, but I'd like to point out why the hazards are not exaggerated.
Furthermore, by inbreeding his livestock he fixed and exaggerated those traits he felt to be desirable.
Even the claims made for the significant health benefits of Transcendental Meditation have been greatly exaggerated and distorted.
As soon as he walked in all cameras focused on him and his hero pals made an exaggerated show of affection towards him.
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The disparity seems further exaggerated by the size and blackness of the soldier's hat.
Johnson had a blazing fastball that flowed effortlessly from his exaggerated sidearm delivery.
Even if their claims are exaggerated, any loss of life is deplorable and unacceptable.
Lawsuits can slow Forest Service efforts to salvage log burned areas or thin unburned ones, but he grossly exaggerated it.
Not only are you stuck with your God-given leg length when in skinnies but your feet are given exaggerated prominence.
Often these ideals take the form of ridiculously unfeasible forms with unhealthily exaggerated hourglass figures.
Racial conflicts are being encouraged with vastly exaggerated figures and myths.
From a distance, it smells as if the national-security hoop-de-do about the Valerie Plame leak is exaggerated.
With the flamboyant, unsubstantiated claims come exaggerated insults directed at anyone who criticises or questions his work.
Not only are the claims made for rave exaggerated and in many cases unwarranted, but they rest on a misunderstanding of history.
Their voices are powerful and exaggerated, bellowing and braying their often nonsensical lines.
But perhaps, given earlier exaggerated claims to break the back of illiteracy within five years, a more cautious approach may be advisable.
Nihilistic attempts to deny there ever was a Solomon seem greatly exaggerated.
Bank solvency is exaggerated, but it is exaggerated less under international auditing than under central bank auditing.
With the other hand behind his back, he produced a bright bouquet of flowers with an exaggerated flourish.
A common characteristic of hypochondriascism and valetudinarianism is that both possess exaggerated fears about potential disability.
Instead of the melodious tones of an Irish brogue, the exaggerated drawl of an angry young man spat from the earpiece.
She was a major attraction in Educating Archie and on stage in the character of Marlene, a Birmingham girl with an exaggerated Brummie twang.
Joey stared at it absently, taking an exaggerated interest in the papers spewing out.
However, this is not to be equated with genuine globalization in the economic sphere, and the extent of this has been exaggerated.
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Much of the bond rally now is built on exaggerated fears of deflation and unrealistic hopes that the Fed will buoy the market by buying bonds.
One senses the strain by which the vivisectionist is exaggerated almost to the point of caricature.
Recall the exaggerated influence vouchsafed, not too long ago, to psychoanalytic theory.
Some have criticized Kechiche for this, claiming that the endless barrage of threats and vulgarities is too highly exaggerated.
The exaggerated cabriole legs are thrust too far outward and are too slender given the size of the cabinet.
A simple calculation based on the amount of energy needed to flood New York suggested the claim was exaggerated.
His claims were regarded as exaggerated but thousands of dollars and fake passports and visa stamps were found in his house.
We are no strangers to men dressing as women, but they are generally either grossly exaggerated or come across as merely camp.
It's retro kitsch, wonderfully camp, gleefully perverse and exaggerated and utterly great fun throughout.
What he went through was an exaggerated form of something that Summers had noticed while observing his daughter at play.
On the other hand puberty is a time for experimentation, and things often get exaggerated in the media.
Unsteady figures cannoned into us, apologizing at once with a fine florid courtesy and sweeping exaggerated bows as we moved towards the Grill.
He exaggerated the hips with panniered silk skirts, and skirts were stiffened into subtle bell shapes.
The film plays like a live-action cartoon, with deliberately flat backdrops, oversized props, and campy, exaggerated action.
I think the number of cashed-up expat millionaires living overseas is greatly exaggerated.
He shifts his specs down his nose, opens his book and reads in an exaggerated manner.
In this respect, the piece is operatic and, like opera, is sometimes exaggerated and campy.
Perhaps because of this, I felt acutely conscious of the way my shoulders were heaving, a rapid and seemingly exaggerated flapping motion.
Wilbur loaded his Mauser with an exaggerated but surprisingly able movement and advanced toward the henhouse in an absurd crouch.
Each work contains a small riot of biomorphic form seeking a balance between exaggerated centrifugal and centripetal pressures.
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Acting out of an exaggerated concern for risk tends to create real problems for society.
Dahl will last for decades with his breakneck storytelling and outrageously exaggerated characters.
Unfortunately, its comedy potential is sapped from the start by overacting and exaggerated direction.
Realistic threats may be exaggerated or overblown, in which case correct and balanced information can be used to reduce them.
The knocking gesture was exaggerated, like an overenthusiastic mime in slow motion.
I think it's so exaggerated that it's comical, like a caricature of a hipster.
An exaggerated, almost Tyrolean pitched roof oversails the dense carpet walls protecting them against the elements.
These impacts were somewhat exaggerated since the Soviet production system tended to overvalue and overstate output.
Her face creased with worry, exaggerated by the layer of pancake that hid the black eye she'd landed herself with.
The barn swallow has figured largely in studies of sexual selection and exaggerated traits.
They make sweeping statements and exaggerated charges on the basis of a very limited understanding of the issues they are discussing.
However, the corrosive effect of such exposure to classical culture must not be exaggerated.
The Greens specialise in hype hyperbole, to give it its full name, extravagant and exaggerated comments.
A hyperbolic citation reiterates a normative notion in an exaggerated way in order to simultaneously work against it.
They should answer hyperbolic attacks with exaggerated speech of their own, if that's what it takes to stave off political annihilation.
No, I think the analysis of this is kind of a little bit of a payback for the exaggerated notion of a lame duck.
Among such passageways is the imitation of idolaters or of the followers of other religions who have exaggerated respect for their saints.
Fears of vote-tampering and vote suppression are far from exaggerated or imaginary.
They use gestures, exaggerated voices, or pronouncements to represent things that are not present in the immediate environment.
Their exaggerated expressions emphasize their predicament of being alive but trapped within their utterly immobile forms.
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It takes away from self-confidence, immobilizes a person through anxiety, and creates an exaggerated fear of the environment.
The fears expressed by this perspicacious mouthpiece of the French ruling class are far from exaggerated.
Well, look, the idea of cold fusion as a source of energy was generally much exaggerated and misinterpreted.
Because of this exaggerated pressure and release, curb bits impede true feel and understanding between you and your horse.
The information we had about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was exaggerated or falsified.
This is a natural biological mechanism necessary for survival, but it is exaggerated in phobics, and the stimulus is rarely life-threatening.
When politeness is all we have connecting us to others, incivility takes on an exaggerated significance.
In the latter, it was somewhat hard to connect to the characters, who often seemed exaggerated for comic effect.
His evidence was at times exaggerated, inconsistent and illogical when it came to describing the quality of some aspects of his construction.
The febrile excitement of the story is sustained by the use of rapid action, exotic locales, and exaggerated passions, often cruel or prurient.
Rumours of the end of the company car, following a change in the personal tax regime, seemed greatly exaggerated.
In too many cases, popular games feature animated female characters scantily clad and with exaggerated feminine attributes.
Some of the compo cases are pretty clear examples, with exaggerated claims for loss due to stress and trauma.
Some Japanese politicians periodically inflame Chinese anger by saying accounts of past atrocities are exaggerated.
Many of those paintings employed a colorful, exaggerated pixelation to underscore our deeply mediated comprehension of the recent past.
The suggestion was immediately set upon by conservatives who argued it was all exaggerated.
Isn't Marx making a deliberately exaggerated statement of his own position in order to display its novelty?
Most drivers and team engineers believe that Ferrari's advantage was exaggerated because the cool weather in Melbourne played into their hands.
Coming across like a crank, or ranting and throwing around exaggerated invective, is another.
It is true that I have, like many who choose to write for a living, exaggerated senses of the absurd and the poignant.
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You don't consider her points of view and the way she carries herself to be overly dramatic, and exaggerated?
If Democrats have politicized the scandal and exaggerated it, Republicans have inexcusably tried to whitewash it.
Giant gorgonian fans, enormous corals and exaggerated sponges decorated the wall.
They then posted numerous messages to bulletin boards that exaggerated the value of the company.
An exaggerated fraenum in the centre of the inside upper lip may cause an unsightly central gap between the upper incisors.
And I'm sure our leaders have exaggerated the extent to which they enjoyed crossing swords with him.
Will they be told that homeless figures are customarily unverifiable and therefore consistently exaggerated?
From the outset his power and influence were exaggerated by Coalition officials.
These works portray a San Francisco of exaggerated hills, where buildings cling precariously to steeply sloping cliffs.
On the assumption that an exaggerated gastrocolic reflex is indeed the problem, you can address it in two ways.
I embellished the tale with a baroque gaudery of exaggerated facts and fantastic detail.
Even a sensible idea or a fine principle is exaggerated to the point that it becomes preposterous and untenable.
Edward, naturally, takes advantage of all the deathbed attention to once again relate the story of his wildly exaggerated life.
She favoured me with another small grin and withdrew her hand, pretending an exaggerated interest in watching as her claws retracted.
Though the pessimism of the declinists was exaggerated they had pointed to real trends.
So I donned my deerstalker, polished my largest magnifying glass and set off with large exaggerated strides.
The FDA and other defenders of aspartame quickly debunked the report as exaggerated and baseless.
The desacralization resulting from exaggerated secularization has resulted in a value vacuum which is being filled by a utilitarian ethic.
While it is true that set gossip is often exaggerated, it's amazing how often stories turn out to be completely true.
I promise total truth on my blog, no stories are exaggerated for effect and it is all from the heart.
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Ian listened for a few seconds, his bland smile twisting slowly into an exaggerated grimace.
Its features include simplified grammar, exaggerated speech melody, diminutive forms of words such as doggie, and a highly repetitive style.
He occasionally invents grotesquely exaggerated success stories in a self-mocking parody of his frustrated bourgeois ambitions.
Fears may be exaggerated, but unless companies are completely open, they face potential PR disasters ahead.
This sort of exaggerated emphasis on good manners can be used to promote servility.
And, in this case, it is based on exaggerated assumptions and exaggerated statements.
Footballers here are less inclined to tumble over in an exaggerated fashion or writhe around feigning injury.
It's an exaggerated intensity of feeling invested in something which doesn't finally matter.
We in the West have done far more than the Russians to publicise the fact that our children embody all of our exaggerated fears today.
This can lead to exaggerated food portions or over consumption of calories.
Furthermore, there are no legal penalties for taking a false or exaggerated claim to court.
Gun buying may be a response to an exaggerated amount of coverage of supposedly impending danger.
Experts say it's an exaggerated figure and don't want to even visualise such a situation.
Once the rain hits, it's clearly time for that exaggerated song and dance sequence.
And so, with exaggerated care, you end up tip-toeing naked across the soggy floor.
He also seems to suffer from a common complaint in the Ministry, an exaggerated respect for American power.
In the end, one might think that goodness was only imaginary, an exaggerated western virtue.
It was so cartoonish and exaggerated that I felt sure it must look staged to anyone watching, but it was genuine enough.
Increased insurance premiums, because of the exaggerated number of personal injury claims every year.
The prosecution suggested she had manufactured and exaggerated the abuse to excuse murder.
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A senior pharmaceutical company executive says estimates of the prevalence of diseases are often exaggerated.
Although it would probably work, while inebriated Chris tended to have a massively expansive personality, and he exaggerated an awful lot.
First, administration officials exaggerated the extremity of the possible responses.
Bowleggedness, an exaggerated bending outward of the leg from the knee downward, can be inherited.
This rope feature and the lion paw feet, legs, and exaggerated acanthus leaves are very similar to the one at Glin.
There was rhythmic propulsion and vigor in the fast sections, yet the quartet never exaggerated the music's pulse.
Learn to accept jealousy as a normal but exaggerated response to a stressful, emotionally charged change in your life.
These are all very exaggerated caricatures of bison with teeny, weeny heads, huge humps, they don't look like real bison.
In addition to tackling fraudulent and exaggerated claims, we must improve the quality of justice for genuinely injured parties.
A close reading of the document suggests, however, that the threat has been exaggerated.
Others, presumably to put the wind up a middle-class academic, exaggerated their crimes.
From exaggerated mannishness to excruciating kittenishness, Shaw never for a second stops Acting.
Oversized wooden gallery benches made for the show are painted with exaggerated woodgrain patterns.
Dom and Matt exchanged knowing looks and roguish smiles, and Chris grave an exaggerated groan.
The extent to which the tenth-century monastic reformation in England transformed the church should not be exaggerated.
Nothing has changed in the intervening two years and yet Mr Jones persists with his wildly exaggerated claims.
Architecturally its bigness was exaggerated by the close spacing of the aluminium structure shooting upwards from the Gothic arches at the base.
In his revisionary account, the received view that Indian cricket was fathered by Lord Harris is shown up as greatly exaggerated.
It's quite possible to reject social conservatism without falling into some exaggerated libertinism.
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.
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Babies are also subjected to exaggerated pronunciation of vowels.
With the braggart dash and swagger of the soldiers of fortune amongst whom Deutsch had served, the headsman presents the Baptist's head with exaggerated courtliness to Salome.
Both Know-Nothings and Democrats exaggerated the events in Kansas and predicted disaster if the other party were to be entrusted with protecting slavery.
I hope they don't give her an exaggerated Mummerset accent in the film.
So read a banner in Syria satirizing the absurd and exaggerated outrage against the Web trailer for Innocence of Muslims.
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.
In fact, the next day the press got involved and began sensationalising things with exaggerated reports about how many were involved in the demonstration.
His normal gait, more a lazy stroll than an upright walk, was even more exaggerated by the long-handled loads he appeared to be toting in each hand.
News of the death of the Google bomb is greatly exaggerated.
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.
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.
But it's worth noting that Wood delivers Spooner's final description of the barren no man's land with such exaggerated portent that it could easily be a leg-pull.
Her eyes were exaggerated with thick lines of kohl reaching all the way to her temples.
Those drunken oafs do not deserve the exaggerated respect they receive.
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.
Mary Katherine Gallagher is an exaggerated version of me how I felt when I was little.
His exaggerated body movements and words remind me of a gamecock.
The second-hand bookstalls on the Passeig de Gracia will sell you yellowed copies of Civil War newspapers celebrating exaggerated or imaginary victories over Franco.
A plethora of unfounded health scare stories warned us of exaggerated or mythical risks, often based on brief, hyperbolized or misinterpreted medical research.
Certainly there's a picaresque or roguish quality to many of the characters and elaborately exaggerated situations presented here, but that only tells part of the tale.
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However, there was a problem during the war with men enlisting more than once to obtain the generous bounties provided for volunteers, so these figures may be exaggerated.
I am convinced that the low expectations of the citizenry are rooted, in part, in the way logical positivism has vastly exaggerated the role of the expert.
The strangeness that increasingly unsettles the reader does not appear to bother the characters, who act with an exaggerated ordinariness that comes to resemble insanity.
The witness denied under cross-examination that she had exaggerated what she heard at the toilet or that she and the other boy had acted as lookouts.
I read to them every night in great detail and in exaggerated voices.
They called his charges exaggerated or said it was all overblown.
Till late last night, as Hans and I chatted with her in exaggerated gestures and atrocious Portuguese, she was in fine spirits, though she knew her child was sick.
Emi asked as she tucked down the bill of the hat and began to pace around the room with an exaggerated boyish walk, her shoulders slumped with her hands in her pockets.
It seems he has exaggerated the press reports greatly for effect.
Set in the near future, the pathologies of the present are amplified and exaggerated.
He was making exaggerated movements with the car to try and shake me off.
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.
One stands splaying all his limbs around me in an exaggerated way.
If outflung arms and exaggerated rolling steps suggested pilgrimage, later passages saw the apparently infirm passed forward from one dancer to another.
While there is something in such a description, it is grossly exaggerated.
We tell slightly more exaggerated anecdotes from our outrageous youths.
In particular, psychologists will look for symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder, which creates an exaggerated fear response in people who have been emotionally scarred.
When Rocky received this somewhat exaggerated and highly unfavorable profile of them he assigned three of his heaviest hitters to consummate the transaction.
Paul's voice adopted the exaggerated tones of a TV continuity announcer.
His many publications and his emails to me are long-winded, occasionally exaggerated, and sometimes hard to follow.
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The slightest excess tension in the buccinators, too or too much much forward thrust or exaggerated recession of the jaw can prevent a performer from playing well.
His perfect pedigree was singed by stories in The New York Times that he exaggerated his Vietnam War record.
And characteristics desired at earlier times for fighting and baiting purposes were exaggerated so that the unfortunate dog became unhappily abnormal.
Senior executives believe investors will be carried away by exaggerated advertising and cash in on their pensions and homes in the hope of making a fast buck.
Dundee had exaggerated the tear, by pulling the horsehair from the glove.
Are fears that ethnic strife may spill over to the neighbors exaggerated?
Humans show false strength with exaggerated postures and overblown words.
There were bold minidresses with molded bodices that exaggerated an hourglass figure.
In satire, things tend to be exaggerated and overblown for effect.
Presumably, the increased chaperone need is induced by exaggerated gill protein denaturation in response to elevated body temperatures during emersion.
This effect was also, as the experts agreed, exaggerated by the fact that the sensors of the Stal system were set off-centre in some of the holds.
The top ladies can trifle with the exaggerated exposure of legging it around a male tournament, for they don't need the dollars but would occupy places men try hard to earn.
All the Americans, from FDR down, underestimated the capabilities of their adversary, and exaggerated their own.
The shopkeepers and aristocrats, peasants and military grandees, nuns and nudes all share an exaggerated pudginess that gives them a pleasant comic quality.
It was paired with a sweater designed like an exaggerated version of a V-neck made in an iridescent knit.
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.
But exaggerated fears can fuel themselves, and the dynamic of prejudice can be a riptide.
In keeping with Finder's emotionally realistic tone, the artwork avoids the heavily thewed men and exaggerated supermodel women beloved of superhero comics.
Reports of the death of centrism in the Democratic Party have been greatly exaggerated.
They all look like plastic action figures with bulging muscles for the male characters and absurdly exaggerated upper bodies for the female characters.
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They would jump out from behind the bushes and scare the girls and we would scream in exaggerated fright and run to the doorstep of the next house on the block.
For one thing, the apparently rapid growth in high-tech sales was exaggerated by the fact that Indonesia's other export earners were shrinking even more meteorically.
Many of my stories were embroidered, exaggerated or wholly invented.
A recent fact-finding trip to Baghdad and Najaf suggests that such fears are exaggerated.
An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.
The exaggerated reflection suddenly revealed that my pores were hardly as infinitesimal as my naked eye had led me to believe.
Actually, the rumours of Seattle raininess have been highly exaggerated.
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.
This unanchored feeling is exaggerated by the way the picture is cropped.
On Sundays and Mondays, some workers may have skipped the fair to go to the cabarets or taverns in the suburbs, though the extent of this custom should not be exaggerated.
We said goodbye, and he blew me his trademark exaggerated air kiss.
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.
Once citizens have constructed a clear-eyed, dissenting version of our situation, perhaps politicians can also be liberated from exaggerated fear.
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.
Do not be too frightened of making your characters perform exaggerated, actorish gestures.
He exaggerated his movements so we could see them more clearly.
By chemophobia I mean an exaggerated fear of toxicity brought about by the widespread use of chemicals in food production and processing.
In ungulates, this is apparently exaggerated by the presence of the eponychia, or collagenous pads over the sole of the fetal hoof.
However, Caesar may have exaggerated the number of ships wrecked to magnify his own achievement in rescuing the situation.
Claudius himself claimed that he had exaggerated his ailments to save his life.
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Atopic patients with ichthyosis vulgaris often have keratosis pilaris and hyperlinear, exaggerated palm creases.
Alfred undoubtedly exaggerated for dramatic effect the abysmal state of learning in England during his youth.
Figures given by contemporary writers are highly exaggerated, varying from 14,000 to 150,000 men.
Modern historians have come to the conclusion that the New Forest depopulation was greatly exaggerated.
McFarlane, suggest that the effects of the conflicts have been greatly exaggerated and that there were no wars of the roses.
Press reports were released that deliberately exaggerated the damage and claimed the expedition would be postponed till the spring.
The scattered fragments and images that have survived suggest that the awestruck accounts of visitors were not exaggerated.
His tour also included Ceylon and Burma, although the duration of his stay in Asia is unknown, and Sellers may have exaggerated its length.
Then ponderously, with its whole body rocking from side to side, it lifted one flipper into the air in an exaggerated mimelike movement.
As the battle was fought, both sides exaggerated the losses inflicted on the other by an equally large margin.
Both sides in the battle made exaggerated claims of numbers of enemy aircraft shot down.
It was found that the initial allegations of looting of substantial portions of the collection were heavily exaggerated.
Historians have long questioned some details of Tacitus's account of the fight, suggesting that he exaggerated Roman success.
Threat displays include undulating flight and aggressive direct flapping flight with exaggerated downstrokes.
Archie Duncan notes Barbour's fondness for exaggerated numbers for the size of any army.
Although Orderic Vitalis's figures are highly exaggerated, his ratio of one in four casualties may be accurate.
Secondly, the report showed early signs of lobbying existing, with the scale of the local infrastructure and ship building activity exaggerated.
Wilde's claim that he had at least 800 fights is probably greatly exaggerated, but it was rather more than the 152 shown in Boxrec and elsewhere.
If the prevailing wind then becomes dominant for a lengthy period of time the dune will revert to its barchan form, with one exaggerated wing.
The surge raced down the East Coast into the southern North Sea, where it was exaggerated by the shallower waters.
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The walking gait of gulls includes a slight side to side motion, something that can be exaggerated in breeding displays.
On 3 June, the Admiralty issued a further statement expanding on German losses, and another the following day with exaggerated claims.
Clothing au ballon was produced with exaggerated puffed sleeves and rounded skirts, or with printed images of balloons.
It and all their songs are sung entirely in a local version of the dialect, which is somewhat exaggerated and distorted.
However, there is widespread agreement today that his approach to historical research was flawed and his claims often exaggerated.
Often these inventions were based in some form of tradition, but were exaggerated, distorted, or biased toward a particular interpretation.
Frankie inherited the most exaggerated version of their features.
Hunter claiming to have made a complete descent, but the account is exaggerated and bears little resemblance to reality.
The height of the stack was exaggerated by early writers, and it was also regularly described as an ancient object of veneration.
Sports economists tend to throw cold water on such studies, saying they often rely on unreliable or exaggerated data.
In turn this may create weepiness, exaggerated emotions, over reactions and even depression.
While there he finds his natural abilities are exaggerated and with his new powers, he comes to the aid of a damsel in distress.
On the other hand, overmedication results in exaggerated or more frequent side effects than what would be anticipated at the normal usage.
Used as a humorously exaggerated formula of politeness when refusing food.
It was reported by Zaitseu, but his memoirs were almost certainly exaggerated or completely falsified by Commie ghostwriters.
Many suspect the exaggerated gloater he has in mind is none other than Gordon Brown.
He put in a clear round in several members' races, the amateurs' cups we won sometimes bibulously exaggerated to those of winner.
Inevitably, some of this may have been exaggerated in social media.
The threat of this virus to the general public may have been exaggerated.
One volunteer gave an exaggerated eye roll when I asked about it.

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