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Example sentences for: hyperbole

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Hype derives from hyperbole , and when it came into use in the '60s, it was used, in much the way overhyped is used today, to refer to something praised far in excess of its value ("Sergeant Pepper has been hyped as a masterpiece, but the fact is, most of the songs on it aren't of the first rank").
But that was my point . As I wrote in the book, "Once one starts using imagery from the Holocaust--that most extreme of events--it becomes impossible to say anything moderate, balanced, or nuanced; the very language carries you along to hyperbole."
What is more, it is probably a verbified short-form of hypodermic ( needle ) or hyperbole , both of which are nouns!
The unformed mind can't be trusted to discount for televisual hyperbole, from McDonald's claim that its petroleum-based "milk" shakes can make you deliriously happy to the cartoon causality that holds that shooting a criminal has roughly the same consequences as bopping a bunny to the seeming ubiquity of rape, murder, and mayhem.
More crucially, her "design for living in the digital age," as the subtitle puts it, comes across as a cross between New Age philosophy and 1950s hyperbole.