Sentence examples for degree of overstatement from inspiring English sources

That would be a mysterious fellow named Ryder, played by John Travolta with a wolfish grin, a tattooed neck and a degree of overstatement as calculated and professional as Mr. Washington's ostentatious display of restraint.

Every day of the week opens a new front in the war, as the loudmouth stars deliver their tirades, politicians copy them in both houses of Congress, and people at home grow used to the idea that political debates ought to be judged by the degree of overstatement and malignant rage deployed on both sides.

In some ways, with the distance afforded by now having two fully weaned children, I understand it: the act of breastfeeding – that is, sitting in Starbucks half-naked – is taken to be such a transgression of social norms that in order to make women feel OK about it, there has to be a degree of overstatement as to how beneficial it all is.

The degree of overstatement depends on the outcome rate (e.g., disease prevalence).

Ignoring spatial autocorrelation can result in explanatory variables apparently being associated with incidence as a result of overstatement of the degrees of freedom in the data and consequent underestimation of standard errors.

That statement reeks of overstatement, which is typical of King.

The original Doom was a carnival of overstatement.

In the category of overstatement, those are whoppers".

Journalists, never shy of overstatement, are complicit, and politicians need no encouragement.

The abundance of overstatement and clumsy description minimizes the impact of actual dramatic events.

Ms. D'Amour, whose background is mostly in experimental theater, is occasionally guilty of overstatement or inconsistency.