Sentences with phrase «hyperbole if»

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.

This comparison would be little more than hyperbole if one did not consider the lives lost to the streets of New Haven, the potential never realized, the dreams crushed, and the crimes committed by the un and undereducated who can not find legitimate employment, not to speak of their inability to get into college, all due to the fact that we are playing with our childrens» education with little, if any, intention to provide a quality one for all of them, eapecialy those who are cast away by the the Acheivement First Enterprise (you know, «the least of these») while lying about it, with the help of this publication.

We get that it's the season for political sniping and that the Obama administration wants to hobble Gov. Rick Perry's upstart presidential campaign, but Duncan should shelve the hyperbole if he wants to be effective as the nation's top educator.

Then I decided — and you can say it is hyperbole if you like, but I know the truth — I was in an abusive relationship and if I was going to preserve my life I needed to leave.

Not exact matches

You'll definitely want to avoid vague statements and hyperbole, but you'll score extra points if you can include some stats on how you have impacted companies or associations that you've been employed with in the past.

Even if the book has some hyperbole here and there, that's what you need to wage a partisan campaign.

If the true teachings of Jesus — which to me appear mostly logical and reasonable, are allowed to shine through all the hyperbole, I think a lot of people would be attracted to his way of life.

@JIm, Sure I did, if you're prone to hyperbole.

In so far as this involved the body as a possible enemy of spiritual living, he counseled the utter subordination of the body, saying with characteristic hyperbole that hands and feet were to be amputated and eyes plucked out if they caused the higher life of a man to stumble.

I don't know if I've ever even used the term theist in one of my posts (I know I have called you an «inbred backwoods evangelical», but I'm referring to your personal characteristics — and it's hyperbole... maybe).

But if the christological formulation is understood as confessional hyperbole, the truth - judgment no longer entails the exclusivism of a negative corollary.

I grant also that I am quibbling here about a use of hyperbole, a use that obviously made an emotional impression on yours truly, and thus «got through» to me even if I now comment on its partial inaccuracy.

If one looks at these verses in the context of chapter 18, one notices the hyperbole Jesus uses in a series of brief teachings.

Walsh observes that «you could argue it's the Church subsidising the government (or «bankrolling» it, if you wish to use The Economist's hyperbole), not vice versa.»

You don't call in the police if you're taking that literally, as you understand it's a sports hyperbole.

Well I'm out if you're not even going to admit to hyperbole.

It was hyperbole, and you should just admit to it if only so you can save face.

The poison hyperbole is having to deal with the world's ilk, it won't hurt you to have to get your hands dirty dealing with it, again, if you're doing God's will in the process.

If you can't get past some of the strong words and images, unbridled conviction and seemingly irreverent writing style (hyperbole is just a writing tool, remember) to hear the heart of Dave's post, you are truly missing an important message.

There may well be a little Semitic - Oriental hyperbole here, as also in the Moses saga, when Moses says, If this is the way it is to be, then take my life.

Or Rand Paul can get a clue and stop talking as if managing the world's religions just don't fall within the scope of Obama's responsibilities to America... and stop his posturing hyperbole.

If Egypt is intended, then we must regard the statement as hyperbole, a figure of speech used to climax the series of words describing Israel's remarkable increase in numbers.

If you think it's hyperbole to compare them to the A's and Rays, teams with stadium issues that dream of having a payroll close to $ 90 million, it is.

It would be helpful if you would stop using hyperbole when you write up articles on our baseball games, such as or «FSU Baseball plummets in the polls...» (after dropping from 6th to 12th); or describing our 11th inning game against Duke as a «largely unwatchable game.»

It may be a little bit of hyperbole, but I believe that if we do take Barkley, he could go on to be the best Browns RB since Leroy Kelly.

It's not hyperbole to suggest that the 6» 2, 205 - pounder would be starting for a number of major schools this fall if he could somehow skip his senior year of high school.

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..

Ayton will be an underachiever «cause he has never been a rim protector, we can not draft Porter due to risky back issues, and please forget the Trae Young hyperbole... In my next post I will lay out our best five options (in order) if available.

I like to soft focus my eyes and write as if in a trance, going on tangents, allowing the most treacly sentimentality and absurd hyperbole.

If you can't pick up on the scorn, ridicule, and hyperbole dripping off of this page then you're part of the problem.

These are times of hyperbole and frustration and if you aren't careful fear and frustration can win the day.

If on the other hand we are talking about the sort of open caucuses that the Tories have been running up until now, then the hyperbole really needs to be dampened down.

This is classic Trump hyperbole but surely the best way for Trump to assure us he has nothing in common with Hitler would be if he stopped invoking him.

If you think that allegation of madness is unkind, consider the wild hyperbole of Lib Dem peer Lord Roberts, who compared Mrs May to Adolf Hitler.

If this sounds like hyperbole, bear with me.

There's clearly a bucket of hyperbole in that statement but I'm wondering if the sheer volume of people that place such faith in this magical fruit indicate that there's at least some truth to the legends.

What if you had one recipe that took 5 minutes to make (seriously, no hyperbole here), had super cost effective ingredients, and was nutritionally dense?

«Gotham, take control... take control of your city» If there's one thing that I loathe, and the internet is full of, it's hyperbole.

So much that, without fear of hyperbole, I can state that if I had set aside every quarter I put in the machine, I likely would have been able to pay for college entirely in loose change.

This lesson covers: planning for written work, synonyms, metaphors, similes, personification, hyperbole, long short sentences, imagination but can be adapted to cover much more if so desired.

If this is all not just hyperbole, then we expect to hear an announcement of a new Concept Maxima — or at least a «concept sedan» — coming very soon, so stay tuned.

If you can make it through the hyperbole, a good place to start is Ten Bold Predictions for 2014.

«It is not hyperbole to suggest that if every person on the planet understood that his or her mobile phone could be transformed — easily and cheaply — into a library brimming with books, access to text would cease to be such a daunting hurdle to literacy.

The Kindle top ten is always an interesting mix; Hyperbole and a Half continues to dominate, and below that there's a mix of genres and formats — The Walking Dead in collected and single - issue form, two Game of Thrones tie - ins, two issues of the second season of Tom Taylor's Injustice... Kindle readers are nothing if not eclectic.

If it is perfectly okay for someone to like something a lot and go into hyperbole about it (i.e Wow this book is the best book ever, I think the author must be the most sensitive, aware individual on this planet.

That applies here, too, if anything seems overstated or whatever, I apologize for the accidental hyperbole.)

Now, if only B&N would cut back on the overblown hyperbole in their press releases and product descriptions.

Chromebook + Android apps = Trouble for Windows PCs (ZD Net) If you haven't tried a Chromebook, this may sound like hyperbole.

And if you can look past the hyperbole, some are unfortunately entering actual bear market territory.

Even if you think Dogs Deserve Better is a «terrorist group» (hyperbole to the nth degree) just take a minute to think about it.