Sentences with phrase «more hyperbolic»

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?»

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.

It's true that my earlier paintings had a very compressed image — the diptychs actually depict a very repressed image and then the «Interior Ghosts» become more hyperbolic — but they're about the idea that we're not quite able to see what we think we're seeing.

Another attendee is more hyperbolic: «It sounds... orgasmic.»

We all stretch the truth to be a bit more hyperbolic than it should be, and we selectively edit to inspire our supporters to take action or give.

Not exact matches

Nash promises to demonstrate that character education is a «deeply and seriously flawed» project, «unnecessarily apocalyptic... inherently authoritarian in its convictions... excessively nostalgic and premodern in its understanding of virtue, too closely aligned with a reactionary... politics, anti-intellectual in its curricular initiatives, hyperbolic in its moral claims, dangerously antidemocratic,» and more.

I should be very willing to believe that each permanent space is either uniformly elliptic or uniformly hyperbolic, if any observations are more simply explained by such a hypothesis.

But they more than compensate withwhat Saunders calls his HPTFZ defense — the Hyperbolic, Paraboloid, TransitionalFloating Zone.

The idea that Brexit would lead to war is clearly hyperbolic, but because of the priming that has occurred over the last few months, the British people are more likely to accept it.

As a van der Waels crystal — a layered crystal structure similar to graphene or graphite — hBN was demonstrated to be two orders of magnitude more efficient than hyperbolic metamaterials shown to date, says Caldwell.

I can attach four more, like this,» she says, assembling a miniature hyperbolic universe before my eyes.

In hyperbolic space, more than one parallel line runs through that external point; in fact, an infinite number of them do.

«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.

Saying that it's for everyone is just a hyperbolic statement to try and express how this game's much broader scope and greater variety of potential gameplay mechanics will appeal to more than just the devout MGS fans.

That would be all well and good within the confines of a made - for - TV drama, but Perelman sees this story more as a somber thriller, ditching the humanistic elements for some hyperbolic confrontations that escalate feverishly until only tragedy can result.

Referred to as a «thought - provoking extended ending» within the back cover's shamelessly hyperbolic ad copy («Casey Affleck and Morgan Freeman are even more electrifying in spectacular 1080p...»), the alternate closer is virtually the same save the restoration of some Blade Runner-esque voiceover.

Referred to as a «thought - provoking extended ending» within the back cover's shamelessly hyperbolic ad copy («Casey Affleck and Morgan Freeman are even more electrifying in spectacular 1080p...»), the alternate closer is virtually the same save the restoration of some

We know that sounds like heresy, but her performance in August: Osage County is so hyperbolic that it's more exaggeration than acting.

Hyperbolic, for sure, though it describes a coherent design, sleek for a midsize family sedan, that should help you forget the frumpy, fractured 2013 - 15 Malibu, which faced the unenviable task of proceeding a much more impressive Malibu design (2008 - 12) It didn't help that the ’13 Malibu's development began about the time GM was going through bankruptcy.

It was typically brief, high - concept, often hyperbolic and was designed to convince the agent standing... [Read more...]

From a critical perspective it is an awful awful movie that adds ideas that retroactively hurt the better Alien movies, though it might be an hyperbolic statement that will depend how much one does care about that aspect, since certainly Ridley Scott is more interested in using the IP to do creative visuals to tell a really weak allegory of christian themes.

The thematical setting of trying to stop an ISIS land invasion of the EU is an obviously transparent marketing strategy designed to appeal to a certain audience within the gaming community, and perhaps also to additionally garner hyperbolic headlines from the more reactionary members of the gaming press in an effort to get free publicity.

Developing studio Hyperbolic Magnetism released word of the level editor in a tweet yesterday, saying that not only would it be available «soon,» but that there would be more information coming on Friday, May 11th.

Enthusiasts like me get bent out of shape when Ebert claims games «can never be art» (though, to be fair, his argument is a bit more subtle than that); but we get equally lathered up when the New York Times games critic succumbs to hyperbolic euphoria in his game reviews.

While this may sound like hyperbolic praise for a game that also features karaoke rhythm mini-games and a protagonist lusting after bikini - clad cam girls, I can't help but feel that more so than any previous entry, the moments of humour and levity in Yakuza 6 only juxtapose and enhance the bittersweet nature of Kiryu's figurative «riding off into the sunset».

The beauty of mathematics will be on display: Hyperbolic geometry, fractal art, the golden ratio, the Fibonacci series — all serve as rich sources of inspiration for this Read More...

And, if the word competition sounds too hyperbolic, let's replace it with something more touchy - feely, and yet more concrete — how about communication?

This is not based on sufficient knowledge of the actual models but on, what I know more generally about hyperbolic partial differential equations and problems in solving them numerically.

Specifically, I've been struck by studies (and hyperbolic headlines) that claim that EVs can cause more pollution than gasoline cars, depending on the grid's energy mix at any given location.

Sure, the video's portrayal of the ocean being impassably cluttered with plastic waste may be a bit hyperbolic, but for the ocean life killed by the world's refuse washed at sea, it couldn't be more appropriate.Plastic waste has become so widespread throughout the world's oceans that there are 46 thousand pieces of plastic in every 2.5 square kilometers of ocean surface, according to the United Nations.

There is more... The inspiration for this campaign brings the idea of human breast milk out of the realm of the satirical and hyperbolic and onto your plate.

But while I find the references to the holocaust and eugenics to be both hyperbolic and counterproductive (I doubt calling anyone a Nazi helps win them over), I do take Boyle's advocacy for veganism as having a lot more weight than many.

Moreover, this could also be an appropriate test case for the Supreme Court to clarify that the principles set out in National Bank of Canada v. RCIU (the case cited by the hyperbolic Bruce Pardy) do not apply to lawyers, either in their personal or professional capacities, and that Lavigne and Green together stand for the principle that not only is there no right «not to associate» in Canadian law, there is also no right «not to speak» when it comes to lawyers, contrary to the misapprehension of those who are shocked and amazed that the Law Society can require them to adopt a «Statement of Principles» that will, as the supporting legal opinion points out, make their «generic human rights obligations» more «personal... tangible... and readily accessible.»

But while Iovine's claim of «revolution» seemed hyperbolic, his assessment of the central challenge was spot on: the only song more important than the one you're listening to is the one that comes next.