Sentences with phrase «seemed hyperbolic»

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.

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.

To insist we need two players or the alternative is us going nowhere just seems hyperbolic and full of false panic.

Although the comparison seems hyperbolic, many analysts have compared Simmons to LeBron James.

It may seem hyperbolic to say, but the Nintendo Switch is my VR.

This may seem hyperbolic, but Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, not Breath of the Wild, is the absolute best reason to own the Switch.

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

If that seems hyperbolic to you, you're going to have to try it for yourself.

Not exact matches

The title may seem a little hyperbolic.

The overwhelming majority of readers seem to have understood that such exercises were meant to be hyperbolic and provocative, intended to bring some of the Bible's most interesting word pictures to life, and to illustrate, Amelia Bedelia - style, the futility of a hyper - literal application of the text.

You see, you seem to think that taking the Bible literally means ignoring whatever literary device it may be using, and read it in a rather hyperbolic manner.

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.

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.

The traditional, hyperbolic force velocity relationship properly describes the behavior of single muscle fibers but also seems to hold true for single joint movements.

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.

«I'm interested in painting as a hyperbolic gesture, one that interweaves wave - lengths of light color, and structure into a form both frozen and animated...» Sampson's work riffs on notions that Donald Judd and James Turrell's work explores, but his intuitive, less rigorous approach seems well - suited to our DIY times.

The press release seem less hyperbolic than the hype surrounding the previous report, so I was optimistic that this could be better than the previous report.

It may be a bit hyperbolic to say this, but Copenhagen seems to have marked a defining moment, and not just in the climate war.

«Scientist» seems to agree with Gavin on this, because, despite these ugly numbers, despite the graph that's level for centuries before going hyperbolic in the 20th Century, despite the obvious impossibility of meaningful calibration 1850 - 1995, despite the chapter - and - verse description in Tiljander03 of roadbuilding, peat cutting, farming, bridge reconstruction, and eutrophication — I used the word «absolutely.»

This is where the hyperbolic language that Judith uses seems to me to be counterproductive.

It seems Schneider was quite willing to make hyperbolic and not wholly truthful statements, doesn't it?

This seems somewhat hyperbolic.

Indeed, some measure of what may seem to be a broad range of tolerance for hyperbolic language in this context may be taken from the apparent willingness of the appellant to absorb the slings and arrows of the «traitor» and «treason» labels without complaint.

While that might be a bit hyperbolic, it is not as far fetched as it would have once seemed.