Sentence examples for exaggerated size from inspiring English sources

The gables were not of exaggerated size but had masks in wood or basketry.

The reconstructed beast stood eleven feet high at the shoulder and more than seventeen feet long from tusks to tail, a somewhat exaggerated size.

Likewise "Ghost," which Mr. Mueck also made a few years ago: a gawky seven-foot sculpture of a girl in an ill-fitting bathing suit, her exaggerated size conveying adolescent self-consciousness perfectly.

While its exaggerated size gives the character a more lighthearted air, "we knew from the get-go that Megamind, even in his name, was going to have an enormous noodle," Mr. James said.

Hynes and co approach the play in the same grand, expressionistic terms as the previous Keane productions - the exaggerated size of Francis O'Connor's country kitchen underlines the Lacey family's new prosperity, while a horizontal slice taken out of the back wall shows the roiling weather behind.

Its chief characteristic was the greatly exaggerated size of certain letters or parts of letters, particularly letters with rounded bows such as β, ε, ζ, θ, κ, ξ, ο, υ, ϕ, and ω, and the excessive size of these letters is made to look even more unbalanced by some exceptionally small forms of, for example, η, ι, ν, or ρ.

Of course, investigators are trying to determine whether Enron's trading unit exaggerated the size of its long-term profits or manipulated prices during the California energy crisis.

(In the commercial, Mr. Murphy exaggerated the size of the Congressional pension that Mr. Carr would receive, an error Mr. Murphy later said was based on bad information and corrected).

An I.M.F.-ordered investigation by PricewaterhouseCoopers found that Ukraine's central bank arranged 21 transactions during a one-year period ending in January 1998 that exaggerated the size of its foreign reserves.

But in order to give his campaign a sense of momentum, Mr. Ard funneled donations to individuals and then back to his campaign, and exaggerated the size of real contributions, according to the indictment.

But Shell is in more of a crisis than the others because of a problem of its own doing: For years it exaggerated the size of its reserves.