hyperbole

'There's no greater crime' for a businesswoman , Ms. Graham adds, with just a smidgen of hyperbole, 'than to show cleavage.

I dont like using hyperbole, but I can't think of any circumstance where this would be beneficial or useful.

In advertising, the term is often used as a hyperbole, a superlative to hype up a product.

Instead, recruitment is often an orgy of hyperbole.

Any watch ad campaign that touts its wares as having "pure rose gold" is engaging in a bit of marketing hyperbole.

But on Tuesday he played down the remarks, describing them as "a bit of hyperbole" .

Perception, thinking, feeling, as long as the performance hyperbole, the body will cause immediate compensation adjustment reaction.

Mourinho was modest afterwards, acknowledging the wild swings in hyperbole to which the media are prone.

They do not use hyperbole, and likewise they expect to be told yes or no in clear words.

As a group, Germans are suspicious of hyperbole, promises that sound too good to be true, or displays of emotion.

So some of the Basel committee's hyperbole about a "substantial" contribution to financial stability is justified.

He now excuses that as hyperbole; but he has stripped the Liberals of any credible stand on the issue.

He was accused of hyperbole but seems, rather, to have been guilty of understatement.

Marketing hyperbole, of course, but it's close enough to the mark.

Dave: I would prevent at all cost the dilution of the SOA brand by market hype and hyperbole.

Journalists, often guilty of hyperbole, have struggled for once to capture the rawness of the politics.

People sometimes doubt about achieving the rhetorical effect of hyperbole because they feel they might be misunderstood as telling lies.

The author makes no apologies for his hyperbole and claims that his book is unerringly factual.

Even for an industry used to hyperbole, 3D is having quite an effect.

This might sound like hyperbole or exaggeration, but I assure you it's not.

"That's the type of thing I've been doing for generations, " he says, and the reference to time served is not hyperbole.

"Maybe the most magnificent master piece of art of all time" says DevinsDad90, not a man prone to hyperbole.

Hyperbole: A figure of speech using exaggeration, or overstatement, for special effect.

Joe Gregorio says, admitting to having met his blogging-hyperbole-quotient for the day.

The last part analysizes the formation mechanism of hyperbole according to the conceptual integration theory.

Shanghai is hoping that the hyperbole will get the Shanghai Expo into the history books.

Eight years ago, when Lula first took office, that statement would have sounded like hyperbole.

The event, in typical Apple style, was tightly scripted and heavy on theatrics and hyperbole.

Recession has made that tougher, and the temptation to indulge in hyperbole even greater.

thanking them for their patience in the face of "political hyperbole and distortion"

" Naturally, he couldn't resist a comic hyperbole, adding, " It's the first time in history such a method has been discovered.

None of this is useful or clever-and it is no less awful because the American left is also guilty of crass hyperbole.

IT WAS what Italians call a sfogo: a release of pent-up emotion that contains a dose of hyperbole.

Although that is hyperbole, it is hard to shake off the impression that her trial is politically motivated.

Residents who favor a touch of hyperbole say that in Kolkata "if a stray cat pees, there's a flood. "

The phrase is of course a hyperbole .

Cao Xueqin, the author of Dream of the Red Chamber, made full use of hyperbole which greatly increased the impressiveness of the works.

There will surely come a day when Dubai runs the world's reserves of hyperbole dry.

This man with boundless energy and charisma is also a master of hype, hyperbole and the catchy phrase.

Mr murdoch was unwise to indulge in adolescent hyperbole.

So I was exploring , at the time, the hyperbole of icons , and Diana and Marilyn, and the importance of celebrity in our lives .

"It's truly like Dubai, " says a Libyan businessman who has recently come back after living in Beirut, with perhaps a touch of hyperbole.

New York is a city of extremes, of hyperbole.

American humor is founded largely on hyperbole.

The cloud lends itself to similar hyperbole.

Hyperbole is a commonly-used figure of speech.

That is not some piece of journalistic hyperbole.

But the hyperbole is fast becoming reality.

"The Afghans use hyperbole of history to exaggerate [their] strengths in order to deter invaders, " he says.

While optimistic that he will still play in the Games, fans were given to hyperbole.

Besides have trifling hyperbole and speaking interest at 9 o'clock, I think this can calculate a kind of realer defense economy risk remind.

That is hypocritical hyperbole: the accusation fits many Bush-era fiscal decisions better.

Some of this is hyperbole.

The summiteers can make progress, but only if they temper their hyperbole with realism and humility.

This is hyperbole, to be sure, but the threat of political meddling with independent central banks is genuine, and not just in America.

It is no hyperbole to say that for an inkling of what is at stake, you have only to study the 1930s.

Hyperbole is a very common rhetorical device which is widely used both in English and Chinese.

Cultural Differences between English and Chinese Hyperbole Idioms and Their Translation Strategies

Imagination and the creation and reception of hyperbole as a rhetorical text

Categorical Analysis of Chinese Idiomatic Hyperbole

English Translation of Quantitative Hyperbole in Chinese

What they wanted however of the sublime they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole;

Pragmatic Analysis and Translation of English Hyperbole

Study of English and Chinese Hyperbole

Transform also lends itself to hyperbole, perhaps overused

The deviation phenomenon of hyperbole in languages

The uses of irony and hyperbole in George Bernard Shaw's _Major Barbara_

On Hyperbole from a Psychological Point of View

On the Logical Structure and Effective Scope of Hyperbole

A Tentative Study on English Hyperbole

Study on the category of hyperbole

Despite the hyperbole, accusations, and denials, it appears we can ascertain these facts:

On the Rhetoric Effect of Hyperbole

The Numeral Hyperbole in the Chinese Idiom

On Hyperbole in English and Chinese