Sentence examples for exaggerated displays from inspiring English sources

She yelled at herself, made exaggerated displays of disgust after bad shots, put her face in her hands and occasionally looked as if she were about to cry.

Beyond the fooling around and laughter, the exaggerated displays of affection, the hugging and cheek-kissing, the whooping and hollering, there was a definite awareness of the passage of time and the changes it can bring.

Yet one constant remains: petty political bickering.As the government has attempted to deal with the mess, the opposition Liberal Democratic Party LDPP) has picked on minor gaffes to justify exaggerated displays of outrage.

However, exaggerated displays of cooperation may sometimes carry social costs.

When a host at the event gave Mr. Perry a jar of maple syrup, he laughed and hugged it to his chest in an exaggerated display of gratitude.

Apokaukos put on an exaggerated display of deference to Kantakouzenos, who allowed him to resume his offices and return to Constantinople, while Kantakouzenos left on yet another campaign.

This conspicuous and exaggerated display is shaped by sexual selection in the context of male-male competition or mate attraction [3].

However, most of them still use deliberate and often exaggerated facial displays (e.g., [2, 5]).

In addition to increasing the likelihood of detection by predators or potential prey, exaggerated male display traits may also inhibit a male's ability to escape predators: the drag imposed by moving a large display trait through the medium water or air may significantly reduce escape velocity [11], [12].

Females are expected to counter-adapt through more selective mate choice [ 4, 6, 8] leading to female resistance to mating and the evolution of exaggerated male display to overcome this resistance ('sexually antagonistic coevolution', [ 8, 55]; see also [ 56, 57]).

"These hard-line protesters," she says, "would like to see abortion outlawed altogether and use tactics such as harassment and intimidation [to agitate for that]." Behaviours range from trying to physically block the passage of would-be patients and staff members to clinics, displaying large, exaggerated pictures showing "aborted foetuses", to filming women outside clinics.