For example, several would-be commercials offer exaggerated benefits for drinking Bud Light like "the ability to breathe fire," "X-ray vision" and "the ability to talk to animals".
Wodehouse writes to his daughter Leonora about seeing "Scott" on the train to the city: "I believe those stories you hear about his drinking are exaggerated," he wrote.
When it appeared in 1983, it provoked a sharp dispute between Vietnam War nurses who claimed that the accounts of partying, drinking and drug use were exaggerated and those who insisted that the descriptions were accurate.
For example, when analyzing studies attempting to determine whether stress leads to relapse to alcoholism (see the article by Thomas and colleagues in this edition, pp. 459 467), readers will observe that sometimes blunted hormonal responses are associated with increased relapse risk; whereas, in other instances, exaggerated hormonal responses predict the return to drinking.
It is possible that the actual amount of alcohol consumption and binge drinking could have been either under-reported or exaggerated.
The work's commonplace diversions -- the drinking and dancing at Lillas Pastia's tavern, for example -- are exaggerated as grandly nihilistic vices.
But she recalled two drinking heavily, including one man who she said was dancing and acting in an exaggerated manner.
The heightened or exaggerated emotional and fearful reactivity to perceived stress, in turn, may drive alcohol consumption observed during heavy, hazardous drinking and alcohol dependence.
14 16 29 The desire to conform with peer influences increased personal alcohol consumption, 24 30 although adolescents make exaggerated claims about their independence from social network influence 31 and report being aware of the risks associated with drinking.
But these are exaggerated.
