It is possible to hyperbolize about the rise of China. From Wordnik.com. [We Can Help China Embrace the Future] Reference
How often he had heard poor sufferers hyperbolize their suffering!. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Don't just say what you don't want and then hyperbolize your position. From Wordnik.com. [Senate health care bill moves closer to final passage] Reference
The Jerusalem writers do hyperbolize enough concerning the distance of this city from the sea. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
So next time you hyperbolize you might want to at least stick an “almost” in front of your “all.”. From Wordnik.com. [Gratests of Teh Awl Tiem Lolz Nominashunz - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Science eventually catches up with those who hyperbolize about risks, and the public learns to disregard them. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Stier: Secondhand Smoke Exaggerations Challenged] Reference
Modeling definitely has its role in earth science, but some modelers hyperbolize its role as the end-all-be-all, the thing that will answer everything. From Wordnik.com. [Questions in The Night] Reference
Palecek may hyperbolize, but his fertile imagination has afforded US Americans a priceless opportunity to stop and examine what we are becoming as a nation. From Wordnik.com. [From Lawn-Boys to B-2's: America's penchant for mowing 'em down] Reference
I thought about those transforming birds, my green "bunny" bag, and how sometimes when we "hyperbolize" things, we are only trying to cover up the authentic Truth. From Wordnik.com. [Soaring birds that transform into hearts - So Cute!(?) and other thoughts...] Reference
To be fair I did hyperbolize Mohler's position as "paddling about in intellectual backwaters," but I think he was less concerned about that unflattering image than he was about the point I was making. From Wordnik.com. [Karl Giberson, Ph.D: The Precarious Middle Ground In The Struggle Between Religion and Science] Reference
The notion that the most profitable industry in the history of mankind I hyperbolize, but on a per-person basis, this might in fact be true requires a lower tax rate to take risk and make investments, simply does not square with logic. From Wordnik.com. [Your Hedge Fund Questions, Answered - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
B&D is indeed also a collection of blogs and personal essays, including contributions of personal essays by friends (many of whom are also authors) who tend to hyperbolize a bit (in one I'm a gun-toting librarian, in another I'm a dame with hot gams and a problem for a PI). From Wordnik.com. [Book Block: BEAUTY AND DYNAMITE by Alethea Kontis] Reference
Nov 30th, 2009 at 6: 42 pm deanlo: well he is semi-elitist and so has that sort of holier-than-thou attitude. but, is he actually that narrow minded or did he just hyperbolize for the camera? and then try to redeem himself with the Technicality Card by implying that he was only referring to Manhattan?. From Wordnik.com. [Bourdain Calls NYC Street Food “Shameful, Terrible, and Indefensible” | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan] Reference
The story line reads like a Manhattan thriller in which any moment the Midtown Tunnel will explode and Abdul will kill his hostages yet does so with a profound focus on the three subplots of New York real estate, an aging couple struggling with an ailing canine, and the media-politician marriage of convenience to hyperbolize the truth. From Wordnik.com. [Heroic Measures-Jill Ciment « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews] Reference
Eh, we tend to hyperbolize differences when we compare one country to another. From Wordnik.com. [Gay Porn Blog, Naked Men Pictures, Nude Males and Gay Erotica] Reference
Cheney had been telling the world, preferring to hyperbolize the danger from Iran's nuclear. From Wordnik.com. [Consortiumnews.com] Reference
In all reality, it was still called a Beta, and they only let the joke hyperbolize by leaving it as such for so long. From Wordnik.com. [Joystiq] Reference
He was just giving his audience what it wanted: simple, punchy ways to hyperbolize the entertainment value of what you're about to see. From Wordnik.com. [IFC.com - Indie Eye] Reference
Fehrnstrom begins with the sad news that, alas and alack, some extremists will polarize and hyperbolize the issue, rather than engaging in civili discourse. From Wordnik.com. [Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com] Reference
I certainly understand the media tries to hyperbolize anything negative about the Atkins diet because they seem to hate it with a passion for whatever reason. From Wordnik.com. [The Livin La Vida Low-Carb Show] Reference
They enjoy some of the positive aspects of Japan that you hyperbolize but clearly Japan, the Japanese and their culture have some serious issues that vastly overshadow the positives. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
So while thor would like to hyperbolize away very real questions by labeling them "dark conspiracies," I would like us to take a good look at exactly what it is that underpins Obama's candidacy, just as I would like to have some idea what his policies truly are. From Wordnik.com. [protein wisdom] Reference
I desire not to hyperbolize; it is probably they may not be so expert in the anatomizing an insect or the discovery of some monstrous production; as these Academical Wits are; yet for ought I know, may find out many monstrosities in their brain; whist they are subtilly plumming the depth of their self-admired understanding. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex] Reference
I desire not to hyperbolize; it is probable they may not be so expert in the anatomizing an Insect, or the discovery of some monstrous production; as these Epidemial34 Wits are; yet for ought I know, may find out many monstrosities in their brain, whist they are subtilly plumming the depth of their self-admired understanding. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentlewomans Companion] Reference
I wasn’t trying to hyperbolize, or claim that this is what gangs do. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Support for Restricting the Speech of Students Who Wear American Flags to School on Cinco de Mayo] Reference
With 40% of the world’s oceans covered in garbage and women secreting poison from our breasts, why do the authors feel the need to hyperbolize?. From Wordnik.com. [feminist blogs in english » 2009 » June] Reference
You don’t inspire trust and confidence in your ability to run the world’s only remaining superpower, because you can’t resist the adolescent urge to hyperbolize every last little thing. From Wordnik.com. [American Coastopia!] Reference
I do not hyperbolize. From Wordnik.com. [Rick Jacobs: Tip O'Neill from the Grave: Blackwater is Local] Reference
To RDJ: Me hyperbolize?. From Wordnik.com. [What's Wrong with this Picture?] Reference
Um ... hyperbolize much?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
Canadian Cynic: Geez, Mark, hyperbolize much?. From Wordnik.com. [Geez, Mark, hyperbolize much?] Reference
Thus I lie/fabricate/condense/extrapolate/guess/hyperbolize and weave to give you that flow and make it convincing. From Wordnik.com. [A Conversation with James Ellroy author of The Cold Six Thousand] Reference
OK, so maybe I hyperbolize. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science Monitor | All Stories] Reference
Coaches often have a tendency to hyperbolize. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
Most of them prefer to speculate and hyperbolize. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
"because you can’t resist the adolescent urge to hyperbolize every last little thing.". From Wordnik.com. [American Coastopia!] Reference
So what's left to hyperbolize over?. From Wordnik.com. [GuruFocus Updates] Reference
Don’t hyperbolize. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Support for Restricting the Speech of Students Who Wear American Flags to School on Cinco de Mayo] Reference
Geez, Mark, hyperbolize much?. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures In Thinkering! (Redux)] Reference
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