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Example sentences for: hyperbolic
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M ost hyperbolic story: This week's Star cover story on the "Surprising Hush-Hush Romance" between Prince William and teen pop star Britney Spears.
Some of Plath's feminist defenders say Hughes' "lax and digressive" verses "serve mostly to remind us of what a great poet she was" (Katha Pollitt, the New York Times Book Review ). Hughes' defenders use the occasion to restate their case against Plath's greatness: Her poetry was humorless and hyperbolic and would not be remembered had she not committed suicide.
The examples of his rhetoric provided are labeled as "nasty," while many--myself included--find them insightful as (only slightly) hyperbolic illustrations of the absurdity to be found in modern American government.
Lee, who has started his own advertising firm and is noted for his hyperbolic Nike commercials, is always selling something (I pat myself on the back for titling my Village Voice review of Lee's 1986 first feature, She's Gotta Have It , "Birth of a Salesman"), and his work is never sharper than when his characters are selling something, too--delivering some kind of spiel as if their very existences depended on it.
And unlike hyperbolic remarks in private exchanges, buried in the innards of our computers, this one went out to God-knows-how-many thousands of "eavesdroppers."
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