Sentence examples for hyperbolic expression from inspiring English sources

It seems reasonable to think that in "dead" hyperbole, the use of a hyperbolic expression has become so customary that it no longer carries a hyperbolic sense, at which point the watered-down sense would be its "literal" sense (or, at the very least, would be among its "literal" senses).

News flash: As much as we overuse that hyperbolic expression "starving" to describe little more than our impatience for the next meal, I survived just fine.

None of this makes any sense, I thought, but deep down I knew that it did make sense and that was what I found unbearably sad, to use a rather hyperbolic expression, though it seemed perfectly accurate at the time.

The program's most daring choice, "It All Depends on You," is a merciless deconstruction of a song that is usually done as a hyperbolic expression of devotion.

The ultimate creep strains for the polystyrene aggregate concrete were estimated using a hyperbolic expression and compared to the other common prediction models for normal weight concrete.

And though it was not a comic film, he used his facial flexibility and gift for hyperbolic expression as an especially seething and vengeful Marquis of Queensberry in "The Trials of Oscar Wilde" (1960).

But if we want more evidence that hyperbole isn't anything new, we need look no further than the many "conventionalised" hyperbolic expressions.

A unique, uncanny moment was framed by the most familiar and predictable kind of coverage and commentary: Anchors, compelled to say something, reached for trite metaphors and hyperbolic expressions of wonder ("Our secular version of a miracle," according to one CNN commentator) that didn't begin to match the reality unfolding live behind them.

Hyperbolic expressions of satisfaction and delight with the ruler were intended to bolster the ruler's sense of self-esteem; this goal, the poet hoped, would not only illustrate the prestige of the Muslim community as a whole but also, on a more practical level, encourage the presentation of largesse to the poet.

Both are hyperbolic expressions of fear that do little to advance our policies or increase our safety.

Their hyperbolic expressions of love, telling me that I am "their favoritest mommy in the whole world" or "the best mommy ever," make me weak in the knees.