Sentence examples for a mild exaggeration from inspiring English sources

Only a mild exaggeration.

Kitchen Stories was only a mild exaggeration of actual studies carried out in Sweden.

It is only a mild exaggeration to say that the chaos of the music business has become more interesting than the music.

When Jay-Z boasts, during a particularly dizzying sequence, "We got a million of these," it feels like only a mild exaggeration.

Yet it is only a mild exaggeration to say that relations between American shareholders and their boards are conducted chiefly through lawsuits and proxy fights.

It is only a mild exaggeration to say that the more overtly loyal an MP is, the more authentically dangerous he is too.The second Norwegian lesson is that victory is not always enough.

Nicholas Eberstadt, a demographer at the American Enterprise Institute, puts it with only mild exaggeration: changing fertility patterns mean that "2,500 years of East Asian family tradition stand to come to an end with the region's rising generation".

One diplomat claimed, with only mild exaggeration, that his hotel room was bigger than this home.

"IT'S the biggest trade battle on the planet," says Pierre Pettigrew, Canada's trade minister, with only mild exaggeration.

(As one gastroenterologist put it to me, with only mild exaggeration, "We're ten per cent human and ninety per cent poo").

In 1843, one British scholar marvelled, with mild exaggeration, that in Iran's history "lives have been sacrificed, or spared — cities have been annihilated, or ransomed — empires subverted, or restored — by the influence of poetry alone".