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Dunne's gift for melodrama and exaggeration, says The New Yorker 's Jeffrey Toobin, makes him the "perfect chronicler for the case."
It is no exaggeration when I say that I prefer English to my native tongue, Malayalam, the language spoken by the people of Kerala, a southern state in India, the language which has entered the pages of the Guinness Book of Records as the longest palindromic language in the world.
I don't think it would be an exaggeration to say that you frequently see grittier reporting on VH1's Behind the Music , especially the part where Bush was so overcome with emotion while reading a letter he wrote to a 7-year-old girl whose father had been killed in battle during his administration that he was unable to continue, and had to hand the task over to the Donaldson (on 20/20 --that's never happened on Behind the Music , although I didn't watch every minute of the one on Poison, so you never know).
Different forms of the same word are listed, e.g., exact, exactly, and exactness, exaggerate, exaggerated, exaggeratedly, and exaggeration.
If the first possibility were correct, that would be good news for the southern credentials of George Bush Sr., since (as C-Span's Brian Lamb observed in the Wall Street Journal piece quoted in Chatterbox's earlier item) the smirk was clearly passed from father to son (acquiring some exaggeration in the process).