But by looking at the region exclusively through the oil lens, he reduces foreign policy to simplistic energy imperialism, concluding with exaggerated visions of endless energy wars, floods of refugees, oil price shocks and ever-growing foreign military commitments.
No matter how caring George Clooney might have seemed on "E.R.," viewers know that characters in fictional series are exaggerated visions of what we'd like our doctors to be.
The club's place in New York lore is not lost on the younger generation of members, who have a romantic - and exaggerated - vision of earlier eras.
Like many performances, this one is a critically exaggerated and transforming vision of life.
I had a queasy vision — exaggerated, as it turned out — of my laptop in little pieces and my family's clothes, burnt and shredded.
Flanery presents an exaggerated but uncomfortably familiar vision of America as a nation with increasing corporate power and decreasing individual liberties, obsessed with security at all costs.
"We exaggerated the glasses; we exaggerate a lot," says Kitaro Kosaka, the man who worked most closely with Miyazaki's vision as supervising animator on The Wind Rises.
The danger is that amid the structural stress caused by China's rise, and exaggerated by Xi's and Trump's clashing visions, inevitable crises that could otherwise be contained will result in outcomes neither side wants.
Their vision of the future won't arrive with exaggerated fanfare; it will most likely set up shop nearly unnoticed, possibly even installed in your living room by your next of kin.
Otherwise, you get a kind of exaggerated caricature of the present rather than a properly-imagined vision of the future.
