Sentence examples for great overstatement from inspiring English sources

To say I began using drugs is a great overstatement.

It is not a great overstatement to suppose that moderate-sized particles are formed during much more time long enough that different constituents are condensed in one particle.

It's a big overstatement.

It was dubbed "the greatest disaster since the Blitz", and although that was a major overstatement, anyone who experienced the Great Storm of October 1987 will certainly never forget the events of that turbulent night.

TO describe CHRISTINE BREWER'S recital on Sunday at Alice Tully Hall as a rare New York appearance by this great American soprano may be an overstatement.

(Been to a Blockbuster Video lately? Bought a BlackBerry in the last five years?) It's no overstatement to say that a great deal of change is on the horizon, even in traditional areas.

The overstatement rate tended to be greater than the understatement rate.

Coles Corner (Mute) £10.99 Scott Walker, the great existential balladeer, and a man not given to overstatement, rates Richard Hawley's voice as 'up there with the all-time greats'.

[Excerpt from a public address by Zolton Ferency, chairman and gubernatorial candidate of the Democratic Party of Michigan, June 1970.] Probably this is an overstatement, but it conveys the flavour of a great deal of contemporary political propaganda.

It is no overstatement to say that Simon Rattle has had a greater direct impact on the arts worldwide than any other living Brit.

It would therefore be only a modest overstatement to say that a proposal that will have a great impact on the landscape and its values can be approved as long as there is no considerable public opposition.