Sentences with phrase «hyperbolic at»

Narration was a bit hyperbolic at times (eg the dramatic emphasis when saying «mega-berg») but it could have been a lot worse.

Such claims were, of course, hyperbolic at best.

The New Yorker dismissed Nikita at the time as the death of French cinema, or something to that effect, and while it seemed hyperbolic at the time, it was also prescient.

Not exact matches

At a bitcoin breakfast event in Manhattan in April, a group of them traded complaints («They ended up with a pound of soup where they threw in all the different bank rules and AML [anti-money laundering] rules... they ended up with something very salty,» said Tim Byun of BitPay) and hyperbolic predictions (if BitLicense is too stringent, New York City will «lose the next Wall Street» to Silicon Valley, Estonia, or North Carolina, said Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures).

At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, it actually has the potential to reshape society.

«At the risk of appearing hyperbolic, this could be the end of Bitcoin, at least for most of the public,» the document readAt the risk of appearing hyperbolic, this could be the end of Bitcoin, at least for most of the public,» the document readat least for most of the public,» the document reads.

Yes, you may groan at that kind of hyperbolic language but it fits here.

Praising my husband at the city gate with a sign, for example, is hyperbolic satire.

After his pep rally at Liberty, Trump was flying high, claiming with his usual hyperbolic flourish that Christians just LOVE him.

At the same time, it's important to always remember that Proverbs are frequently hyperbolic.

Deniers, as both Lipstadt and Vidal - Naquet show, seem to have an endless supply of polemical tricks and dodges: they simply discount Jewish testimony out of hand as lie or fantasy; inculpatory testimony from the Nazis themselves is said to have been coerced by the triumphant Allies; documents confirming such testimony are said to be forgeries; Nazi statements and memoranda about the Final Solution are taken at face value if they are euphemistically phrased, but are interpreted as hyperbolic or figurative if they are blunt and explicit; photographs and films of executions are dismissed as fakes.

Hyperbolic speeches, screaming crowds, sign waving, goofy hats, certitude that their side will win — it's all there at both events.

And while people may believe what they are saying to be true, it does not need to become central to every comment thread in every article here at SAH by several vocal, disgruntled commenters (I'm being a bit hyperbolic, but you get the point).

While the first sample article poked fun at the ability of Red Sox fans to be absurdly hyperbolic about Ortiz, that doesn't mean I get tired of listening to what he means to them.

Also, why can't people simply be excited at our potential and just hope we continue to progress, instead of this hyperbolic crap every time we spank a team?

To discuss Juventus's win over Lazio, and Napoli's subsequent loss to Roma in the hyperbolic terms used on Saturday night would be disrespectful, but nor does it feel right to pretend that they did not happen at all.

Unfortunately, the FA, under the doomed Lord Triesman and the hapless, hopeless World Cup 2018 seeking committee, seemed equally ready to take Warner at his own hyperbolic valuation.

In hyperbolic geometry there are at least two distinct lines through P which do not intersect l, so the parallel postulate is false.

When she was assigned to teach his class on hyperbolic geometry at Cornell, where she had an appointment as a visiting professor, she was forced to confront it.

There, she began to research hyperbolic surfaces, geometric objects that can be visualized as having a saddle shape at every point.

His writing ranges from tiresomely hyperbolic to transcendent, with funny and touching moments in between, but his genuine wonder at the universe and our place in it continually shines through.

The close fly - by of this star 70,000 years ago did not disturb all the hyperbolic objects of the solar system, only those that were closest to it at that time.

Traveling at high speed and on a hyperbolic trajectory, the object is obviously not from our solar system; it's from interstellar space.

You can only imagine the hyperbolic win - win pitch for «Real Steel» that brought this robot boxing movie to the screen: «Transformers» meets «E.T.» meets «Rocky» meets «The Champ,» starring Hugh Jackman of «X-Men» and directed by the «Night at the Museum» hotshot, Shawn Levy.

«Tummy Trouble», «Rollercoaster Rabbit», and «Trail Mix - Up» are all included here, but while the opening of Who Framed Roger Rabbit functions as both wild cartoon slapstick and hyperbolic parody of same (as well as something of a precursor to the even more satiric Itchy and Scratchy of The Simpsons), the subsequent shorts, beyond lacking the deft, fluid touch of the movie's animation director Richard Williams, are less clever: orchestrations of mayhem that occasionally pause to wink at themselves.

When Lady Bird dispenses an attempt at hyperbolic humor («I'll kill your parents») it backfires when her crush mentions that his father has cancer.

Advertised as «The Holy Grail of holy fucking shit» in a hyperbolic Drafthouse Films press release, the film turned out to be Dangerous Men (Ungradable), which — full disclosure — screened at an event I was involved in several ears ago in L.A..

Festival director Geoffrey Gilmore said that he found it «refreshing» that the Academy had recognized the talent of a film that had premiered at Sundance, a statement that was tastefully restrained compared to the blurb he had written for the film in the ’06 catalogue, which was hyperbolic even by Sundance standards and seemed — this is the kicker — nakedly sincere.

And, again, perhaps, it is only Losey's theater background that makes all three possible, because where language enters it must be hyperbolic, specifying character while at the same time ridiculing it, rendering the notion of self - sufficient, psychologically «real» characters absurd.

The design study on display at the 2012 Paris Auto Show lacks an interior and an engine, but the underpinnings promise to be nothing short of hyperbolic.

And the relative lack of data has sometimes forced them to resort to the hyperbolic — Andrew Piper proclaiming that e-reading isn't reading at all — or the petty — Peter Conrad complaining that e-readers don't align margins the way he likes.

I will strive to ensure there will be many learning tips besides, but I do tend to get a little hyperbolic and four - year - old at these things...

It was a bit of brisk honesty at an event that, if anything, demonstrated the publishing industry has settled on politeness and dialed back the hyperbolic «end of the world» rhetoric and «come to Jesus» digital evangelizing that has marked such gatherings in recent years.

At other points it comes off like a hyperbolic and unfocused blog entry, with occasional moments of insight buried amid strange digressions about the glories of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, or how Eric Clapton's music is overrated.

At GDC this year, I had a chance to step into Beat Saber, an upcoming rhythm game from Czech Republic - based indie studio Hyperbolic Magnetism that tasks you with slicing flying cubes with lightsabers to electronic dance music.

By KEN JOHNSON Published: March 7, 2013 It would be hyperbolic to call it a revolution, but it is a significant development: Of the 72 vendors taking part in this year's Art Dealers Association of America Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory, 40 have dedicated their booths to single artists.

There are notable exceptions: amongst them Tracey Moffat's hyperbolic, highly - staged photographic narratives of displacement, servitude, love and loss in the Australian Pavilion and, in the Korean Pavilion (a curious, not entirely unsuccessful combination of history and humour) Lee Wan's Proper Time (2017)-- a room of clocks that tick at different paces according to how long a certain individual must work to earn a meal.

Hyperbolic color planes and tactile quotidian objects are used as props to enhance color interaction and hint at the mundane within an overblown and histrionic constructed composition.

Burnett was a Marshall Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he completed a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science, and he is the author of four books, including Descartes and the Hyperbolic Quest (2005) and Trying Leviathan (2007), which won the New York City Book Award.

Drink Canada Dry broke yet another taboo at the time it was created, since it directly contrasted the hyperbolic, overly gestural paintings that dominated the New York art scene of the 1980s, especially the Neo-Expressionist paintings of Julian Schnabel and Francesco Clemente.

Clearly if things change, things change... but at the moment the title is a little hyperbolic.

From the frontline: I'm having an interesting conversation at Klimazwiebel, where one particularly hyperbolic statement by the Heartland from their Fundraising document (the K - 12 curriculum) is still «defended» denial - style by many posters by placing strawmen and throwing red herrings.

Including emission along a path (Schwarzchild's equation), a flux will approach saturation as the optical thickness becomes large over scales where the temperature variation is small; at smaller optical thicknesses, the temperature distribution may vary and larger temperature variations make the nonlinearity of the Planck function important, but over short distances, the temperature variation can be approximated as linear and the associated Planck function values can be approximated as linearly proportional to distance for small temperature changes, so the flux will approach an asymptotic value as a hyperbolic function (the difference between the flux and the saturation value of the flux will be proportional to 1 / optical thickness per unit distance (assuming isotropic optical properties (or even somewhat anisotropic properties), it will have that proportionality for all directions and thus for the whole flux across an area).

The «at any cost» may hyperbolic.

He laughed at how hyperbolic the U.S. media and public was being in response to the Euro performance with Sandy.

Just look at all the hyperbolic invectives against the EPA's Clean Power Plan we're hearing here in the US, as one example.

The exhibit, Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reefs by the Institute for Figuring, was displayed in several rooms of the Track 16 Gallery at Bergamot Station.

The man who succeeded disgraced former vice presidential candidate John Edwards as leader of a special poverty center at the University of North Carolina School of Law is no less hypocritical — in his luxurious living versus his hyperbolic rhetoric — than his predecessor.

As someone who gets very annoyed at the hyperbolic «we're all going to die» rhetoric from the usual suspects, I have to say this all detracts from the underlying message.

«If you clear away all the hyperbolic constitutional arguments, there is, at the heart, a statutory question about this part of the Clean Air Act — and whether it applies when the sources in question have been regulated under another provision in the Clean Air Act,» Heinzerling continued.