Suffering is exaggerated worry about what could happen if we had a difficult experience, not the actual difficult experience.
Crime is a big, if exaggerated, public worry.
Siegel was merely voicing, in exaggerated form, a worry that any book-lover must have: that serious literature, and our culture's ability to appreciate it, is under threat.
That is partly because some Americans fear the violence is starting to spread northward, although such worries look exaggerated (see article).
A third camp reckons that the worries are exaggerated, noting that European election results are rarely reflected in general elections, which use a different voting system, concern different issues and are taken much more seriously.
The government has the capacity to prevent a rout; and the recent bail-out suggests it is willing to use it.If fears about a hard landing in China are exaggerated, then so are worries about a broad emerging-market collapse.
While regulators acknowledge that small-scale farmers are difficult to police and crooked seafood processors give the industry a bad name, others insist that the food-safety worries are exaggerated and partly the result of protectionist efforts by interest groups in the United States and Japan seeking to stop China from gaining market share.
"I'd worry about exaggerated retribution".
After the announcement of Yunus's Nobel Prize, some in the microfinance community worried that exaggerated claims about microfinance would lead eventually — when unrealistic expectations were not met — to the discrediting of the field.
Jef Billings, an Emmy-winning skating costume designer, said he appreciated Weir's singular personality but worried that his exaggerated style might undercut the seriousness of his skating.
