hyperbole

• Even vehement hyperbole, which is nearly always a disfigurement in written prose, may become impressive or delightful, when it harmonises with the voice, the glance, the gesture of a fervid and exuberant converser. —  Diderot and the Encyclopaedists
• He's got some good points, and its worth taking a look see at B&N, and maybe even buying it. stfs2 --- "Lost in all of the hyperbole is the central role the morons at rating agencies have played not only in the runup to the crisis, but in the precipitation of the most recent events." —  MetaFilter Projects
• Perhaps your hyperbole is a cover for making an argument with no facts. —  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy
• < she was ~ — tearing her hair out >; disapproved of by some speakers To be sure, the W usage note, even with its verbosity and the oxymoron "pure hyperbole," is more helpful than L's cryptic "disapproved of by some speakers"; but the definitions are better in L because they assume that if a user does not know the meaning of literally, then that of literal is unlikely to be that obvious. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1
• Forward, where he compared its embittering impact favorably to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Proust -- the hyperbole was a measure of how desperately Singer, like Thorne, wanted the unbelievable to be believed -- and noted that it could be obtained through the Brooklyn Jewish Center on Eastern Parkway. —  The New Republic - All Feed

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