Sentence examples for exaggerated details from inspiring English sources

It also followed the revelations, nearly three years ago, that James Frey, the Oprah Winfrey-authorted Author "A Million Little Pieces," had exaggerated details of his memoir of drug addiction.

Pay attention to exaggerated details.

The Kitty Genovese episode became infamous, but later examination found that Gansberg had exaggerated details and presented a misleading perspective of the witnesses' actions.

The film is set in 1970s New York, a period that Russell and his team recreate in nostalgic and exaggerated detail.

In her alluring "Slow Portraits," Du Yun wrote music to accompany David Michalek's striking videos of theater performers, slowed down to convey facial expressions in dramatic, exaggerated detail.

The word caricature derives from the Italian verb caricare ("to load," "to surcharge" as with exaggerated detail) and seems to have been used first by Mosini in Diverse Figure (1646).

Several newspapers, including those in California, wrote about the cannibalism in graphic exaggerated detail.

"Cut from thick-looking leather, long skirts and wide pants turned clunky; various exaggerated utility details also read heavy.

(Answer: right in spirit, exaggerated in detail).

Soon she was photographing her parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins — the whole mishpocha — finding loopy antics and exaggerated period detail in holiday gatherings and daily ritual.

Hers is not a memoir in the style of Margaret Seltzer, whose account, as Margaret B. Jones, of gang life in South-Central Los Angeles turned out to be completely bogus; or Mr. Frey, whose books "A Million Little Pieces" and "My Friend Leonard" contained exaggerated and fabricated details about his drug addiction and recovery.