Sentence examples for prone to exaggerate from inspiring English sources

Daniel Kahneman describes it this way in his book "Thinking, Fast and Slow": "We are prone to exaggerate the consistency and coherence of what we see".

Beyond that, Ha Tae-keung, who runs one of the Web sites, says that some sources are prone to exaggerate, possibly in the hopes of earning the bonuses he offers for scoops.

One of the keys to Mr. Gore's behavior, the authors suggest, is an insecurity that they say many of his former aides believe "brought out his tendency to be bureaucratic, defensive about his turf, wooden in public presentation, prone to exaggerate his own accomplishments, impressed by resumes and the conventions of the establishment, and more timid than he wanted to be".

Some of those who came under her spell were prone to exaggerate her interest in such matters, for it would be true to say that her combination of great beauty, business efficiency and wit made her in certain ways a sorceress.

While scientists are increasingly in a state of panic about the state of the environment, the media - prone to exaggerate other news - downplay catastrophic threats to the planet.

Men are prone to exaggerate their height, while women often fudge details about their weight, according to Dan Slater, author of Love in the Time of Algorithms: What Technology Does to Meeting and Mating.

In particular, liberals or conservatives may be prone to exaggerating their exposure to ideologically consistent news outlets.

But the president has been repeatedly exposed as an habitual liar prone to exaggerating the size of his crowds, his fortune and his popularity; given to denials of acquaintances, deals and relationships; and offering changing and contradictory descriptions of his own actions and motivations and those of people around him.

Those who know Kasowitz say he is sometimes prone to exaggerating when regaling them with his exploits.

But at the end of the day, what Carson would do to the tax code or Medicare probably has a much bigger effect on people's lives than whether he's prone to exaggerating details of things he did four decades ago.

But I'm as prone to exaggerating as I am to making lists, and when the time came for me to relocate to New York City once more, my natural response was to furiously scribble down every SF thing I'd ever wanted to do but hadn't yet found the time for.