Sentences with phrase «hyperbolic way»

That may seem a hyperbolic way of putting it, but when you distill this debate down to its essence, those are the primary concerns.

The Cabinet Office Minister was doubtless speaking in his usual hyperbolic way, and in general it's a good thing to have less legislation.

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Along the way, Himmelfarb discusses this journal's position on «the judicial usurpation of politics,» which she initially rejected in the strongest terms but now says is essentially correct, although «hyperbolic» in its expression.

Through the years the church has sought to interpret the demand for perfection in ways that relieve it of the despair of ethical failure: The language in this command is hyperbolic, says the church, and not to be taken literally.

This too shall pass, but New Paltz Town Supervisor Susan Zimet's comparing social media criticism of the town board to a racially motivated lynching of an innocent African - American man was even by Zimet's hyperbolic standards way, way over the top.

Because of the way light waves move through hyperbolic metamaterials, they can be used as superlenses to view objects too small to be seen with other microscopy methods.

Put another way, the Coens are basically interested in a couple of amiable lowlifes surrounded by various kinds of comic extravagance, including two hyperbolic dream sequences and acres of free - floating attitude.

This is in many ways a self - serving, hyperbolic story that mythologizes Childers and his life without addressing the inherent contradictions in murdering people for God.

Their complete commitment to their roles, as offensive as they are, give this film life in a way that makes you wonder that if they can have fun with these hyperbolic racial caricatures, then we should be able to laugh with them.

I am not one to favour hyperbolic and emotive language but can find no other way to describe my view on this.

I had been serving pieces to all of our friends, when I looked up to see a group of guys ogling the cake from across the courtyard; offering them each a piece gave way to loud, hyperbolic feedback.

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.

Maybe if you tried to make a point in less hyperbolic terms (not hard as it would be impossible to be more hyperbolic) you might find fewer people thinking you are making extreme statements in profoundly insulting ways.

Having refuted some of his arguments, and taken (I think rightly) objection to some of the more hyperbolic charecterizations, Hopkins takes the opportunity for some self reflection: «Perhaps if he manages to miss what Transition is about in such a way, his piece bats the challenge back to Transition; how well are we communicating what we are doing?»

You make it so easy to point out your hyperbolic extremism, which should be an embarrassment to anyone who claims you to be an ally in any way.

Explicitly excluding depressive illness from those conditions which would qualify for doctor assisted suicide would go a long way towards addressing the hyperbolic claims by some that a deluge of «death doctors» will descend on Canada's mentally ill.

The report triggered a somewhat hyperbolic article about how «artificial intelligence is on its way to, well, killing off lawyers.»