The Confucian emphasis on social role rather than on the self seems to involve, in comparison to the Mohist position, an exaggerated emphasis on social status and position and an excessive form of self-centeredness.
Such fears are exaggerated but the status quo is not an option either.
What made these chief executives different from their predecessors, apart from their celebrity status and exaggerated self-importance?
Mr. Clark, a former Attorney General in the Johnson Administration, suggested that the Government had wildly exaggerated Mr. Reimer's status in the SS, and he attacked the reliability of the witnesses and historical documents Mr. Stutman said he would introduce.
The overall results suggest that children and adolescents allocate more attention to threat-related stimuli regardless of PTSD status, and exaggerated startle and a possible failure to habituate skin conductance responses to threat-related stimuli in youth with versus without PTSD.
Interestingly, the increase of p-PKC ζ in membrane fraction was shown in DM and DM + SNE1.0 relative to that of control, but its membrane expression was significantly higher in DM + SNE1.0 than in DM alone, implying that SNE exerted additive effect with diabetic status, resulting in exaggerated PKC ζ activity.
In passages like this, Wolfe seems almost to hide his own respect for status behind the obviously exaggerated respect of his characters.
Many of todays Human Beings have an exaggerated belief in the importance of their status in the world.
Before going into "Twenty-Flight Rock," the song he first played with Lennon, he says, "The day I met John Lennon...". in a self-mocking, exaggerated delivery that undercuts the event's mythic status.
So much so that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red list has put the great white on its 'vulnerable' list because of this "typically exaggerated threat to human safety and almost legendary 'Big Fish' status".
