"Hyperbole" means using exaggerated statements or claims that are not meant to be taken literally.
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It's a bit of
hyperbole in service of a good point: The difficult work of streamlining government must move forward.
The problem
with hyperbole as advocacy is that it soon begins to sound like desperation.
So far the book has been authoritatively dismissed
as hyperbole by Marc Lilla in the NYT.
«When making submissions, we are big on logic and common sense, not
on hyperbole and in terrorem arguments.
She speaks
without hyperbole and has an essential grasp of what defines the needs of the artists she works with in her own publishing house and elsewhere.
The book flap promises «an epic story of science, society, sex, and survival,» and though one expects a bit of
hyperbole from a publisher's marketing department, I couldn't help but wonder if the person writing that had read even a little of the novel, as The Terranauts is not in any way «epic.»
I think it is the best riding truck I have ever been in and this is not
just hyperbole for this review.
There's a lot of
hyperbole when it comes to tablets so I can only relay my experience... but it seems similar to what Anandtech has posted at least in regards to the display.
Brad McQueen, a teacher and «former Common Core insider» (whatever that might mean), wins the prize for
hyperbole by comparing Common Core to the Holocaust in his book The Cult of Common Core: Obama's Final Solution for Your Child's Mind and Our Country's Exceptionalism.
Placher performs a useful service when he corrects misconceptions and deflates
rhetorical hyperbole on both sides of the revisionist - post-liberal debate.
The spectacle of people, many of whom know better, succumbing to
such hyperbole in a new «crisis!»
Marketing
hyperbole aside, it's easy to see how these comments could be referring to the Zenfone 3 Zoom and Zenfone AR respectively.
There's so much
hyperbole surrounding AI that it's easy to get caught up in the «AI - washing» that companies engage in.
Under the hood live a myriad of technologies, as well as a laundry list of patents, inventions, and proprietary design features — each seeming to tow its own stack of
marketing hyperbole.
And that wasn't
hyperbole there Wally, I wanted to know if you had in fact checked to see if anybody had tried to reproduce the «hockey stick» graph.
There's a certain level of
hyperbole at work here that is very funny.
«We've never offered anything that compares to this particular package,» said Larry France, Chabil Mar's marketing manager, who tends to avoid using
hyperbole after working in Belize's travel industry for so many years.
Some media outlets then add their own layers of spin, misinformation and lies often
through hyperbole and simplification.
When you claim that you are a «world - champion» sales person or an «extraordinary» team player, you are engaged in
hyperbole if you do not back those claims up with real statistics and results.
LMAO, y ’ all love that 0.0 and take it literally instead of with a hint of
hyperbole because if it's literal it's the only way I'm wrong, My stance is that between Kawhi and the Spurs..
It's only
slight hyperbole to say in this political climate that Google could get approval to acquire both Facebook and New Zealand.
The «debate», such as it is, has been notable on both sides for nothing so much as the
wild hyperbole of what will — or might — happen should their opponents get their way.
This was a step
beyond hyperbole: The creation of Apple computers had already then attained the status of legend,...
(But it doesn't
stop hyperbole: NMI's research recently led one green marketing author to tout that «83 percent of consumers... are some shade of green.»)
The hurricane of
hyperbole leading up to Facebook's IPO set it up to disappoint, but the company made moves to build a foundation for longer - term success.
But they would provide fresh clues about the financial life of the richest - ever presidential candidate, who's admitted he's prone to «
truthful hyperbole.»
Now that I've had some time to look back at the year that was 2011 (technically still is in fact), it's no
longer hyperbole to declare it one of the industry's best since the dawn of Pong.
But, saying one was never exposed to Jesus after 21 years of being Catholic is either ignorance or
extreme hyperbole.
He hasn't got the message that,
while hyperbole is the name of the game in politics, flacks aren't supposed to lie.