Sentence examples for exaggerated purpose from inspiring English sources

The rest was transience, people moving through the static, like Michael, heading uptown with exaggerated purpose.

Testing yields essential, valuable knowledge about school performance, but its exaggerated use distorts teaching and ignores the broader purpose of education.

Therefore, the exaggerated use of reward power may lead to distrust, suspicion, and eventually abstaining from entering a trusting relationship by a target of influence; in other words, if unrealistically high discounts or other offered rewards are unusual for the culture or mentality of the latter, they may be associated with corruption or bad purposes.

He has a large, monumental head and the kind of exaggerated, all-purpose features you see on Easter Island statues.

There are several reasons to wonder if this threat is being concocted – or at least exaggerated – for political purposes.

"It's sort of an existential experience for me," Mr. Fox said about having outrageous acts from his past exaggerated for comedic purposes.

Or they might claim that al-Qaida and other such organisations are really very limited in their capabilities, the dangers they pose to us here in Britain exaggerated for political purposes.

I have owned a German shepherd dog that went "down in the rear" due to breeding for exaggerated "angulation" for show purposes only.

Use exaggerated body motions.

In other words, it has been wildly exaggerated by Russia for propaganda purposes and actually there are as many, if not more, ultranationalists in Moscow and St .Petersburg as in Kiev.

Use an exaggerated follow-through.