hyperbole
മോബ്
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.
example
Whether Alice actually wanted to put a hospital in the casino or the claim is merely gossipy 'hyperbole' is unclear.
Behind every food scare, there is a barrage of claims and counter-claims, 'hyperbole' and damage limitation.
Such 'hyperbole' deadens the sensitivity to moral distinctions in public discourse.
In any other case this might sound like directorial 'hyperbole' , but Lloyd has reason to be confident.
It is impossible to create a responsible ethical and policy debate in a climate of 'hyperbole' .
Similarly, claims about the potential of the Internet are usually overstated and often 'hyperbole' .
In return I can offer you glory, fame and a hatful of 'hyperbole' .
The instances are inconspicuous, but do make for a slight forcing of the effect towards 'hyperbole' .
In a literary world filled with emotionalism and 'hyperbole' , there are a few guiding stars.
But this exclamation is 'hyperbole' ; we are not speaking in literal seriousness.
Pack up the breathless 'hyperbole' and just point us in the direction of better gear.
We see this in the recurrence of his favourite rhetorical figures of paradox and 'hyperbole' .
He's using exaggeration and 'hyperbole' to be entertaining - lots of writers do that.
According to the narrator, fierce would be 'hyperbole' for even the bravest of hobbits.
They generally strike me as 'hyperbole' that works to insult but not really to enlighten.
you can't accuse us of 'hyperbole'
Real tragedies do not need 'hyperbole' , for they are intrinsically hyperbolic.
Having said that let us not get carried away in 'hyperbole' and rhetoric.
He should then appreciate the fine line between Churchillian rhetoric and 'hyperbole' .
It's safe to say that 'hyperbole' is the stuff of both poetry and protest movements.
Even Roger Ebert, who 'hyperbolically' called it the worst film he'd ever seen at the festival, has given his upward-thumb to this renovated version.
Heat capacity increased linearly with temperature for ice and 'hyperbolically' for supercooled water.
But his account of the possibilities for response to this inheritance is 'hyperbolically' overblown.
Beck was once, somewhat 'hyperbolically' , cited as our generation's Bob Dylan.
It is no 'hyperbolism' that the campaign period is the most critical and sensitive stage in any presidential and parliamentary elections.
Like the Caroline poets of his epoch, Brome's use of rhetorical 'hyperbolism' is also linked to the eye of the one who beholds.
According to the publisher's 'hyperbolical' publicity, the book covers ‘every aspect’ of Western medical history.
Chandler's similes and sarcastic 'hyperboles' are full of attitude in the contemporary New York sense.
This, of course, is expressed in poetry in which 'hyperbolism' , exaggeration, is the fundamental law.
As a result, in some places the images have an overwrought, almost drunken 'hyperbolism' .
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