hyperbole
مبالغہ
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
you can't accuse us of 'hyperbole'
Similarly, claims about the potential of the Internet are usually overstated and often 'hyperbole' .
In any other case this might sound like directorial 'hyperbole' , but Lloyd has reason to be confident.
Pack up the breathless 'hyperbole' and just point us in the direction of better gear.
Real tragedies do not need 'hyperbole' , for they are intrinsically hyperbolic.
It is impossible to create a responsible ethical and policy debate in a climate of 'hyperbole' .
In a literary world filled with emotionalism and 'hyperbole' , there are a few guiding stars.
We see this in the recurrence of his favourite rhetorical figures of paradox and 'hyperbole' .
Behind every food scare, there is a barrage of claims and counter-claims, 'hyperbole' and damage limitation.
But this exclamation is 'hyperbole' ; we are not speaking in literal seriousness.
In return I can offer you glory, fame and a hatful of 'hyperbole' .
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.
The instances are inconspicuous, but do make for a slight forcing of the effect towards 'hyperbole' .
Such 'hyperbole' deadens the sensitivity to moral distinctions in public discourse.
It's safe to say that 'hyperbole' is the stuff of both poetry and protest movements.
He's using exaggeration and 'hyperbole' to be entertaining - lots of writers do that.
He should then appreciate the fine line between Churchillian rhetoric and 'hyperbole' .
Whether Alice actually wanted to put a hospital in the casino or the claim is merely gossipy 'hyperbole' is unclear.
Having said that let us not get carried away in 'hyperbole' and rhetoric.
Her portrait of her runaway ex-husband Tadeusz is equally 'hyperbolical' .
As a result, in some places the images have an overwrought, almost drunken 'hyperbolism' .
According to the publisher's 'hyperbolical' publicity, the book covers ‘every aspect’ of Western medical history.
At the time when the novel appeared, this apocalyptical chapter must have seemed to be the boundary of 'hyperbolism' .
Heat capacity increased linearly with temperature for ice and 'hyperbolically' for supercooled water.
This, of course, is expressed in poetry in which 'hyperbolism' , exaggeration, is the fundamental law.
Chandler's similes and sarcastic 'hyperboles' are full of attitude in the contemporary New York sense.
Beck was once, somewhat 'hyperbolically' , cited as our generation's Bob Dylan.
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.
Earlier this year a legendary figure in the 'hyperbolical' world of ‘supermarket’ tabloids, the inimitable Eddie Clontz, died.
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