| This extravagant praise, moreover, takes the form of far-fetched metaphors, antitheses, hyperboles, superlatives, elaborate syntax, etc. |
| Chandler's similes and sarcastic hyperboles are full of attitude in the contemporary New York sense. |
| During Mizner's formative years, smart conversation consisted mainly of tired hyperboles. |
| We pardon his hyperboles for the evident earnestness with which they are uttered. |
| Such statements are intended, in part, as comical hyperboles, but how funny are they, in the end, since most people would like to be on the side of life and hope? |
| What we want now is a major artist — a Manet, Picasso, Pollock, Warhol, or Beuys — who will manifest durable truths at the core of inevitable hypes and hyperboles. |
