Hyperbole calls attention to itself by making something significantly greater than it is.
Writers use
hyperboles to press home a point or convey some emotional truth.
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Might you, I wonder, be the only member ofyour company unable to recognise
hyperbole? Or, to be even more of- fensive: are you, I wonder, an ex-im- peccably recruited graduate trainee who has become an impeccably trained all-purpose executive, who finds it impossible to understand why your laddish managing director should attract such a loyal and affec- tionate following when, to put it bluntly, you don't?
A projection of billions of dollars in Facebook revenue by 2014 from one of the company's board members might be dismissed as
hyperbole, but when it comes from Marc Andreessen--founder of Netscape Communications and the first Web browser--it merits attention.
Never mind all the
hyperbole proclaiming the dramatic return of the planet's leading league in high defintition or whatever it was, Dan succinctly summed up yesterday's Wolves/West Ham clash in five words...The Yammers versus the Hammers!
Matt Welch engages in
hyperbole himself when he characterizes Hayek's thesis in The Road to Serfdom as "manifestations of collectivism even in market-based democracies lead inexorably down the road to tyranny," considering that Hayek advocates some lite-collectivist policies in that book ("The Uses of
Hyperbole," August/September).
Although we believe the advertiser was simply engaging in a bit of
hyperbole, we can understand why some readers would be upset about the ad's content, and we recognize it was a mistake to include it in our pages.
Most literate Americans would reserve `great novelist' for William James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Philip Roth, John Cheever, and William Faulkner, among others." Then Dickey tells Keefer he "should contain his tendency toward
hyperbole."
Our previous article shows that the Y content of any element K in a chemical compound is decreasing in case molecular mass X is increasing in the range from 1 up to any desired value in compliance with rectangular
hyperbole law Y = K/X.