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hyperbole
1. from his lungs in loud burst of hyperbole, sending waves
2. The judges used every hyperbole in the thesaurus to describe
3. natural affection for hyperbole
4. If this sounds like so much hyperbole, the reader might properly consider the confiscatory tax policies of socialist governments that have routinely driven many of its most productive citizens to safer (tax) havens in order to ward off efforts designed to appropriate their wealth
5. The room had its own en suite washroom – which was the typical real-estate hyperbole to describe a toilet and a sink and shower in a four by five foot closet
6. Who’s still missing? Just then, one of the strangest, most unusual, and bizarre, I can’t even come up with enough hyperbole; to describe what happened next
7. With 20/20 hindsight, I should have recognized that for the hyperbole it was and omitted a few items that wound up costing me the job
8. shattering” are hyperbole, but not in this instance
9. uglier than sin; that's not a hyperbole
10. The hyperbole and waste
11. 1 Astronomical Units from the Sun at the moment, a bit further out than Pluto, it was now moving away along an extended hyperbole with an inclination of 44 degrees to the Solar System’s orbital plane
12. ” Hyperbole and mixed-metaphor aside, if it was so, the woman knew it could set fire to the entire world, As Jewish history and biblical verse had it, the Jews could not regain their holiest of holies, the Temple Mount, until a red cow (supposedly rarer than a flying pig) was born in Jerusalem
13. ” PT extended his hyperbole to maintain his audience’s attention
14. Reporters have a special place in their circular file for puffery, flackery and hyperbole
15. More often than not, these opinions will be bolstered with emotion and hyperbole rather than with reasoned arguments and supporting evidence
16. Like everything else in these romances, it is a gross exaggeration of the real sentiment of chivalry, but its peculiar extravagance is probably due to the influence of those masters of hyperbole, the Provencal poets
17. Calmly, in measured tones, with no sense of hyperbole, he said that he and his boys would face “the stiffest competition this country has ever known to win the right to wear the Stars and Stripes in Berlin
18. Now that remark sounded like schoolgirl hyperbole
19. Indeed I think it is one among several cities to which an extreme hyperbole has been applied— 'See Rome and die:' but in your case I would propose an emendation and say, See Rome as a bride, and live henceforth as a happy wife
20. Often it’s just hyperbole
21. ” This was hyperbole on her part, but she made her point with it
22. “I was on screen less than sixty seconds,” she recalled, with typical Marilyn hyperbole, “but I got five weeks work… going on the tour which promoted the film in eight major cities