| The formality and scale of her attire, her pose, and her lack of affectedness suggest class and gender and also hyperbole and overstatement. |
| If such infantile hyperbole doesn't have you laughing like a drain, you haven't a hope of wading through this somewhat too hefty book. |
| But nobody can fault him for not lavishing enough hyperbole on his creation. |
| During Mizner's formative years, smart conversation consisted mainly of tired hyperboles. |
| 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. |
