(And to be honest, it's not a great loss.) But the emotional turmoil, even at its most exaggerated, always feels real and disturbingly familiar.
Teen angst, in its most exaggerated, cinematic manifestations, can lend itself to some really twisted reworkings.
Progressivism, in its most exaggerated form, can look like an absence of standards and discipline, and an unhelpful abdication of authority on the part of the teacher.
Suddenly the magnetic lure of the Disney Princesses became more clear to me: developmentally speaking, they were genius, dovetailing with the precise moment that girls need to prove they are girls, when they will latch on to the most exaggerated images their culture offers in order to stridently shore up their femininity".
It called for plans to "identify the most exaggerated claims" by Bush administration officials about Iraq, and "to contrast them with the intelligence estimates that have since been declassified".
It is not our privilege to indict the most exaggerated instances of political violence and accept those to which we invest.
As if in competition, we started to tell grotesque anecdotes, looking for the most exaggerated things that had happened to us.
Guardian contributor Jess Zimmerman – and self-proclaimed "misandrist witch" – told Hess: "It's inhabiting the most exaggerated, implausible distortion of your position, in order to show that it's ridiculous".
It raised its head, seeming to look around, then hurled itself forward in the most exaggerated manner, as if making fun of someone.
so unrecognizable, that only the most exaggerated hypotheses occur to us as explanation: that the copy containing the article slipped behind the counter of the New Statesman's mailroom..or that the story was filed from Boston.
