Sentences with phrase «become exaggerated»

We don't need (sorry, Marmaduke) cartoonish dogs, or dogs that, through breeding them with close relatives, become exaggerated caricatures of their breed.

For one thing, sexual selection only explains why secondary sexual characteristics in males (the peacock's tail, the rooster's wattle, the unwieldy antlers of the Irish elk) become exaggerated.

Corruption has become an exaggerated word, which is amusing, provides no fear for the active players and continues to eat our moral fabric on a daily basis.

The severity of the woes pronounced upon the scribes and Pharisees in Matthew 23 may have become exaggerated in the transcribing.

But they should not become exaggerated or obsessive, so that there is nothing else in the relationship.

So you look at certain people when they've been around for fifteen or twenty years and get to a level of seniority, their weaknesses become exaggerated either because they become ingrained or because they're just more exposed at a more senior level, and so people need to compensate for their weaknesses.

Employees only need to perceive other employees aren't being treated well, and the illusion becomes exaggerated through rumors and stories retold.

She protested both extremes: «When a great truth becomes exaggerated to this extent, and is held to the exclusion of its compensating opposite, it is in a fair way to becoming a lie.»

At first this was not fanaticism but a loyalty and pride in their own things, but as it became exaggerated in the hands of the ignorant it was turned against themselves.

It is also unclear whether bonobo sexuality became exaggerated only after their split from the human lineage or whether the behavior they exhibit today is the modern version of our common ancestor's sex play.

Poll description - Elliot becomes an exaggerated version of his female form in skimpy clothes with dog ears and a tail Welcome to The Roxbury, a boutique motel resort (no, that's not an oxymoron), nestled amongst the picturesque Catskill Mountains in the historic village

He's either put off growing up or confused it with becoming an exaggerated version of himself.

Not exact matches

It was the ideal of all moustaches of drill sergeants throughout all the armies of Europe; and in that exaggerated form it became a symbol of national virility.»

These in time may tend to become grossly exaggerated so that they come to symbolize the way in which all of life has become insufferably insulting.

There is no doubt that the Second Vatican Council, its proceedings and debates, the differences of opinion that became apparent, the press reports that retailed and exaggerated them, the existence of tendencies and parties thus reveals, the struggle for decisions this way and that the alterations in liturgy and law decided upon — all these experiences caused profound astonishment, disquiet and consternation in many Catholic circles, even to a considerable extent among the clergy.

A former Communist and Socialist who became an unvarnished anti-Semite and Nazi sympathizer, Rassinier did not initially deny the existence of death camps and gas chambers, but he claimed that the number of Jewish victims was hugely exaggerated, and that most of these were in fact murdered by other Jewish inmates who had been given authority within the camps.

He also exaggerates the difference between gignomai and gennaomai (pp. 77 - 78); both words can mean «to be born,» and only after the Arian crisis was a consistent effort made to distinguish «to become» from «to be born.»

If we allow our adult intelligence and imagination to consider such a situation as at least possible, the value and significance of the Creator's visit to this planet become hard to exaggerate.

Second, and more important, these trials exhibit in exaggerated form what is also happening on a smaller scale throughout the criminal justice system: «Though no avalanche has occurred,» Wilson observes, «the courts are having difficulty keeping their footing on a slope that has become increasingly slippery.»

Orthodoxy became woven with complexes of self - affirmation, an exaggerated triumphalism: To acknowledge errors is to destroy the foundations of true faith.»

At times, we are exaggerating; becoming too obsessed with making everything for them and offering as much as there is of our attention and devotion.

That view attributes to the state a wildly exaggerated capacity to provide security — not only because of the all - too - apparent limitations of the competence of state officials to keep us safe but also because, as the arbitrary power of the state increases, the more the state itself becomes a source of insecurity.

Subsequent studies have demonstrated that as the animals become addicted to the drug, the positive consequences get reduced and negative effects get exaggerated so the net experience is less positive.

As supercritical technology becomes more mainstream and power generators normally improve on the efficiency of even their oldest plants over the course of operations, the loophole allows plants requesting CDM credits to exaggerate the calculated emissions avoided by millions of tons of CO2 - equivalent gases, the panel warns.

Previous studies have used a variety of computer models and data from fossils and flood events to argue that ENSO has become more exaggerated over the past 11,000 years, known as the Holocene period.

«Darwin's female - choice theory has become the foundation for explaining the presence of exaggerated secondary sexual traits in many males, such as the peacock's tail feathers,» says evolutionary biologist Rama Singh, an author of a paper in the journal PLOS ONE that explains the findings.

Though fears about the impacts may be exaggerated, the pro-technology forces will not be able to erase fears from the public because genomics is becoming integrated into the collective narrative we share about technology and its place in our lives.

Give me 12 weeks of consistent diligent effort, sticking with all the metabolism boosting strategies I teach, and your metabolism really will become like a turbo charged engine, and I'm not exaggerating when I say that.

Family members fibbed and told white lies and I became an adult that frequently exaggerated or made up stories to get out of things that I didn't want to do.

For those of us who don't have a flattened lumbar curve, our pelvis can also become unstable because of an exaggerated lumbar curve, created by our hip bones being tilted too far forward (with a gymnast's posture).

The trend - setting label has become synonymous with a tongue - in - cheek take on femininity — expect playful prints and exaggerated silhouettes with an eclectic edge.

No doubt he has proven he is a great actor, but he tried too hard in this one, and the joker simply became a joke, consistently generating unintentional laughs due to the ridiculousness of the script and the exaggerated acting from Leto.

Most successful farces are interesting because they exaggerate stereotypes to previously unexplored hilarity, have comical, original schtick, and occasionally push the bounds of farce to become satire.

is the last film you'd think would embrace a «Hollywood ending» but the film's final rhetorical shift fabulously exaggerates both Orlean's and Charlie's first - person struggles to become something more than just the authors of their own works.

, exaggerated, Kill Bill - style violence and Reynolds hamming it up and delivering one - liners that will likely become memes in a few weeks.

As a result, I'm not exaggerating when i say that this game looks and plays like a PS2 game, and whatever good story ideas show up in the beginning are completely lost in the end when the plot becomes so unnecessarily convoluted that you will probably just give up on it and mindlessly go from one boring fight to the next with no interest in what is happening.

I exaggerate, but Josh Gad has certainly become one of the hardest - working people in Hollywood in the past few years since he broke into mainstream success with Frozen, quickly accumulating movie credits like Beauty and the Beast and Murder on the Orient Express.

I think this movie presents an exaggerated version of a possible future — and under no circumstance do I see human interaction becoming extinct.

This inhuman persecution finally culminates in a flogging that becomes the most gloriously ridiculous and exaggerated beat - down of 2014 (to paraphrase Playlist contributor Jordan Hoffman, this punishing, over-the-top scene is to fight scenes what embarrassing sex scenes are to «Munich»)

I would often find myself spending more time and effort in the pre-battle setup than during actual encounters, and this imbalance became increasingly exaggerated as my mastery of the game's systems improved.

Like the best episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the film knows how to wield emotional power, exaggerating the anxieties of its adolescent heroes until they become actual threats to their existence.

«I, Tonya» is told in a style of exaggerated, ironic as - told - to comedy that intentionally curdles when the extent of the domestic abuse — and Harding's grim acceptance and then rejection of it — becomes obvious.

jeremiad in his link round - up, it seemed impossible not to address what has suddenly become a hot topic: the death of the great American blockbuster, although with Iron Man 3 striding past $ 400 million, reports of the death of tentpole filmmaking are perhaps exaggerated.

Though the show can be a tad exaggerated at times (both dramatically and comically), it has great characters and the kind of clever, rapid - fire dialogue that's become synonymous with every Aaron Sorkin production.

Instead of the gadget - heavy, exaggerated action to which we've become accustomed, the sequences here are based slightly more in reality.

It is true that the overall cost of special education has become a significant financial issue for school districts nationwide as enrollments have steadily grown over the years, although our previous research found that the cost has been widely exaggerated in the media.

Of course, NCLB can be faulted for the exaggerated rhetoric contained in its title, but that should not prevent us from taking a thoughtful look at the actual NAEP record that has now become available.

In some reading programs, the teaching of sight words takes on an exaggerated importance and can become an end goal for many teachers rather than being viewed as a supporting piece in early reading instruction.

«The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready - made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.»

This situation becomes all the more exaggerated for someone who does slip towards the edge, scrabbling to regain their footing.