hyperbole
hiperbola
definition
noun
Behind every food scare, there is a barrage of claims and counter-claims, hyperbole and damage limitation.
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
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Having said that let us not get carried away in 'hyperbole' and rhetoric.
Similarly, claims about the potential of the Internet are usually overstated and often 'hyperbole' .
According to the narrator, fierce would be 'hyperbole' for even the bravest of hobbits.
He's using exaggeration and 'hyperbole' to be entertaining - lots of writers do that.
It's safe to say that 'hyperbole' is the stuff of both poetry and protest movements.
In any other case this might sound like directorial 'hyperbole' , but Lloyd has reason to be confident.
They generally strike me as 'hyperbole' that works to insult but not really to enlighten.
Pack up the breathless 'hyperbole' and just point us in the direction of better gear.
But this exclamation is 'hyperbole' ; we are not speaking in literal seriousness.
The instances are inconspicuous, but do make for a slight forcing of the effect towards 'hyperbole' .
Real tragedies do not need 'hyperbole' , for they are intrinsically hyperbolic.
In return I can offer you glory, fame and a hatful of 'hyperbole' .
In a literary world filled with emotionalism and 'hyperbole' , there are a few guiding stars.
He should then appreciate the fine line between Churchillian rhetoric and 'hyperbole' .
you can't accuse us of 'hyperbole'
Such 'hyperbole' deadens the sensitivity to moral distinctions in public discourse.
Behind every food scare, there is a barrage of claims and counter-claims, 'hyperbole' and damage limitation.
It is impossible to create a responsible ethical and policy debate in a climate of 'hyperbole' .
We see this in the recurrence of his favourite rhetorical figures of paradox and 'hyperbole' .
Whether Alice actually wanted to put a hospital in the casino or the claim is merely gossipy 'hyperbole' is unclear.
Like the Caroline poets of his epoch, Brome's use of rhetorical 'hyperbolism' is also linked to the eye of the one who beholds.
Beck was once, somewhat 'hyperbolically' , cited as our generation's Bob Dylan.
But his account of the possibilities for response to this inheritance is 'hyperbolically' overblown.
Even if one goes so far as to say that the use of flashlight powder is ‘dangerous’, it is 'hyperbolical' to describe it as ‘extra-hazardous’.
This, of course, is expressed in poetry in which 'hyperbolism' , exaggeration, is the fundamental law.
The poem opens 'hyperbolically' with an image of an innocent young nymph who spends her days reclining in the grass.
According to the publisher's 'hyperbolical' publicity, the book covers ‘every aspect’ of Western medical history.
Her portrait of her runaway ex-husband Tadeusz is equally 'hyperbolical' .
Heat capacity increased linearly with temperature for ice and 'hyperbolically' for supercooled water.
Chandler's similes and sarcastic 'hyperboles' are full of attitude in the contemporary New York sense.
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