Sentence examples for considerable exaggeration from inspiring English sources

Both are a considerable exaggeration of the situation.

Even allowing for considerable exaggeration, these theatres were extraordinary feats of engineering.

Of course, the poetic impulse to make a good story better leads to considerable exaggeration in daily conversation, suiting a vanity that goes with a sharp-edged sense of personal and family honour and the spoiling of children.

"That would be a considerable exaggeration," he says with a smile.The internet-driven fall in classified-ad revenue is only one of the reasons for the decline of newspapers in America, which started decades ago (see chart 2).

It is commonly said, with considerable exaggeration, that Tehran now controls four Arab capitals: Damascus, where it is helping keep President Bashar al-Assad in power; Beirut, where its ally Hezbollah is a powerful force; Baghdad, where Iran is helping the Shia-led government fight Islamic State jihadis; and now Sana'a in Yemen.

It's a very considerable exaggeration to say that there is a mass of regulation that has come in now".

It is often interpreted and displayed with considerable vertical exaggeration.

Then, conservatives exaggerated the exaggeration.

"Whilst I think that some of his comments could be categorised as exaggeration, I have considerable sympathy for the arguments he makes," he said.

From this time, it is no exaggeration to say that, to a considerable extent, lacquer filled the place occupied in China by ceramic wares.

For a philosopher to do this required considerable force of character, and a certain amount of exaggeration and simplification, as well as self-confidence and persistence.