Sentence examples for exaggerated notions from inspiring English sources

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Out-of-town heirs harboring exaggerated notions of the city's property values can be especially unrealistic about how much an apartment can command.

But it would snatch away the promise for those living elsewhere, particularly if the decision was based not only on the asserted absence of federal authority but on exaggerated notions of state sovereignty anchored in the Tea Party's favorite constitutional amendment, the 10th.

This can sometimes lead to exaggerated notions of the prevalence of NIHL and perhaps to the implementation of unnecessarily comprehensive preventive measures.

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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.

The argument that President Xi can pick up the phone and order Kim to behave rests on an exaggerated notion of China's influence over Pyongyang.

These trends include a culture of consumption, a growing sense of entitlement, an exaggerated notion of our own importance, valuing the pleasures of the individual above the good of the community, and the belief (advanced by all Abrahamic religions) that our species enjoys holy dispensation to do with the world as it wishes.

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