Words similar to hyperbolic
Example sentences for: hyperbolic
How can you use “hyperbolic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Now there's a riff on You Only Live Twice (1967), now a hyperbolic parody of Thunderball (1965), now a piece of lame slapstick involving an electrical swivel chair.
The case against Dowd, taken up lately by Michael Wolff in New York magazine ("she is derisive, mocking, hyperbolic, bitchy") and by Dan Kennedy in the Boston Phoenix ("Call her our most celebrated bad columnist") was most cogently laid out in a 1992 piece by Katherine Boo in the Washington Monthly . At the time, Dowd was still a reporter, following the presidential campaign after having covered the Bush and Reagan White Houses.
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.
But shy, brainy, and unpopular, Coetzee must make do with hyperbolic fantasy instead:
On the other hand, “figurative or exaggerated expression” would probably have been a simplified improvement over “metaphorical or hyperbolic expression,” which might be tough going for someone who had to look up literally to begin with.
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