Sentence examples for exaggerated notion from inspiring English sources

This is almost certainly an exaggerated notion, but only time and a solution will prove it so.

Foucault's suggestion was based on almost no historical evidence and an exaggerated notion of the power of professional psychologists, but it was widely accepted as a useful theory.

Though the Hayden in Boston is now billed as "the most technologically advanced digital theater in New England," it does not pursue thrills for their own sake, or with some exaggerated notion of what is required to lure media-sodden children into space.

Surveys show that by now the public, including smokers themselves, have a greatly exaggerated notion of smoking's peril; Mr Viscusi, for instance, has found that the chances of getting cancer from cigarettes are typically overstated by a multiple of four or more.

In his project for perpetual peace, he wrote: "Since the narrower or wider community of the peoples of the earth has developed so far that a violation of rights in one place is felt throughout the world, the idea of a law of world citizenship is no high-flown or exaggerated notion".

"Is it that I had this exaggerated notion of 'No one will believe it?' Or, since I didn't think I was doing anything that was all that serious in my mind, that the world wouldn't see it as being all that serious?" Finally, he said: "I knew when I did it, almost from the moment I did it, there was no good way for it to end.

In order to heighten a sense of urgency, its representatives exaggerated the notion of imminent threat by twisting information on weapons of mass destruction and by encouraging a direct connection, in the public's mind, between Saddam and September 11th.

Kalfus exaggerates this notion, making it the basis for a scientist's carefully developed project to communicate with the advanced race of Martians (which he bases on the belief that it would take a more evolved civilization to surmount the difficulties posed by the super-arid Martian climate).

The impact of this change should not be exaggerated because the notions of probability held by Cicero and, in particular, Boethius were in significant respects close to those of Aristotle.

That notion was exaggerated, but the broader point held: more than a few Republicans were voting with the intention of reducing the influence of money in politics.

After days of dire warnings, mandatory evacuations and shuttered transit systems, state and federal officials resisted any notion that they had exaggerated either the threat from the hurricane or the need for precautions.