Sentence examples for feels exaggerated from inspiring English sources

It is clear that they are taciturn, practical people, but the film's insistence on their self-reliance, and their isolation from modernity, feels exaggerated after a while, especially when a significant death goes unmentioned.

Yet even by its own grumpy standards, the right of the Conservative Party sounded disgruntled this week after the first big reshuffle of David Cameron's government.Examined dispassionately, Conservative gloom feels exaggerated.

"Saturday's commotion feels exaggerated, surreal and absolutely amazing," says Ekeblad. "We got a free ride in getting our message out, thanks to one judgmental person.

He raised concerns about the script's accuracy, including the portrayal of the Pythons' dealings with the Christian watchdog Nationwide Festival of Light, which he felt was exaggerated.

There are two possibilities here: either Gore is fibbing, in which case he still feels obliged to exaggerate his personal distance from Clinton, or in fact the gap is quite significant, and despite the galaxy of advisers he has consulted, he chooses to overlook the Democrat who knows best how to run both as a challenger and as an incumbent.

John H. McWhorter, a black professor of linguistics and American studies at Columbia University who is known for contrarian views on racial issues, said he felt that Mr. Obama had exaggerated the daily racism felt by most blacks and that he personally had never experienced, as Mr. Obama said he had, fearful reactions from white people he passed in the streets.

I wrote back to congratulate him, and felt mature as I exaggerated my delight for his benefit.

Ms. Dowling, author of "The Cinderella Complex," suggests that by adolescence "girls feel compelled to exaggerate their difference from boys, believing their social acceptance depends on it".

While the I.O.M. report sensibly calls for better research, care and education, I cannot help but feel it also exaggerates the scope of the problem and adds fuel to the nationwide demand for more prescription pain medications.

He said he understood that some people had little sympathy for a highly paid professional athlete, that even some of his teammates might feel he was exaggerating, or using depression as an excuse for an indifference to football.

If asked, a man, believing that he should have a lot of partners, may feel compelled to exaggerate, and a woman, believing that she should have few partners, may minimize her past.