Sentence examples for exaggerations from inspiring English sources

The "make-up" of the three Cabinet ministers is as close an approximation as possible to the features, dress, and manners of the originals, and the fun of the thing consists partly in placing them in ridiculous situations, and partly in making them utter ludicrous exaggerations of the sentiments which they are supposed to profess or act upon in their public conduct.

The group's influence has been consistently distorted by its own boasts and Russian state media exaggerations, but it is clear that some of its members are fighting in the east, presumably within volunteer battalions.

The supposed great debater landed no knock-out blow and Mr Gore's "victory" in the first debate quickly turned to ashes as voters reacted against his abrasive performance with its "serial exaggerations".

Last week the exaggerations of the first-past-the-post system gave Ontario's Liberals, led by Dalton McGuinty, a huge majority 72 of the 103 seats, with only 46% of the vote while the Conservatives and New Democrats, who between them won half the popular vote, got just 31.The erstwhile power balance had its downside, which may partly explain why Ontario voted as it did.

It looks like the world is now being reminded that catching up is hard to do.Dani Rodrik, who was ahead of the game in anticipating the return of slower emerging-market growth, points out that the end of rapid convergence need not mean the return of divergence:It's also interesting to see how the bounce back from a former, overstated conventional wisdom generates its own exaggerations.

Put together the Bay Area's outrageously high costs and its appalling infrastructure with the ever-increasing number of perfectly competent programmers elsewhere (not just Austin and Raleigh, but Bangalore and Prague) and, surely, the valley will gradually be hollowed out?This argument contains two huge exaggerations and one kernel of truth.

Her tax-free cash income is over $150,000.Ms Taylor's actual transgressions were much less egregious, but Reagan's exaggerations riled up Republicans.

But it is best conducted not during elections with all their simplifications and exaggerations, but between them, when issues can be taken one by one and given proper scrutiny and attention.

Both views are exaggerations; both contain important truths.

These things are all doomed, thanks to an obscure clause in the free-trade agreement that the EU is negotiating with America regarding "investor-state dispute settlement" (ISDS)—or so the agreement's opponents claim.These exaggerations contain a kernel of truth.

We dislike their Europhobic fringe and their exaggerations about Britain's broken society.