Many respondents encouraged worried travelers to pay little heed to what one blogger called an "extravagant exaggeration of the current situation by certain parts of the media".
The wire is just a fanciful extrapolation of contemporary virtual reality (see fig. 1), with its goal of unmediated visual and aural experience; and the proliferation of media in 2K L.A. is only a slight exaggeration of our current media-rich environment, in which digital technologies are proliferating faster than our cultural, legal, or educational institutions can keep up with them.
It is a new analogy, brought in to correct what he sees as a chronic exaggeration of regularity in current science.
It struck me then, and still strikes me now, as a perfect example of self-parody, a condensed lampoon of all that writer's worst tendencies towards needless iconoclasm, exasperation, sensationalism, exaggeration and the hoovering up of current news items: like so many opinionistas, Greer can never see the wrong end of a stick without trying to grab it with both hands.
This is, of course, a slight exaggeration of the change since some current users at baseline will stop use during follow-up.
Before catastrophe strikes, the main features of Jimmy's world are based on the gradual exaggeration of some of the most dismal current trends in western society - internet pornography, gated communities, genetic modification.
The book's strength comes from its use of comic exaggeration to skewer current politics, grafting a story too wild to believe onto events we know to be true.
The fact of the matter is the vast balance of evidence is that the current National Assessment is an incredible exaggeration of the effects of climate change on the United States.
An exaggeration, of course.
That was exaggeration, of course.
