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    diversion, or even censorship, when miscasting an opponent's argument as hyperbole even when the comparison made by the argument is appropriate. Godwin has...
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    selling their children as food to the elite. Swift's use of satirical hyperbole was intended to mock hostile attitudes towards the poor and anti-Catholicism...
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  • are described in terms of an outsized metaphor (a kind of metaphorical hyperbole)—as in Petrarch's comparison between the effect of the gaze of the beloved...
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    NXT) and others. Of Brookside, he stated; "I don't think there is enough hyperbole to explain how good a coach he is...I can't think of a better coach I'd...
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    standing in the Republican primaries. He adopted the phrase "truthful hyperbole", coined by his ghostwriter Tony Schwartz, to describe his public speaking...
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    official foreign policy positions commonly used rhetorical ideological hyperbole to justify its actions, although during Dino Grandi's tenure as Italy's...
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  • steps. Woolf opens her response by stating first, and with some slight hyperbole, that this is "a remarkable letter—a letter perhaps unique in the history...
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    France by Charles after Francis was captured. The treaty spoke in romantic hyperbole and ended with an oath for both rulers to undertake a crusade together...
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    (1651) Theoremata de quadratura hyperboles, ellipsis, et circulari James Gregory (1667) Quadraturii di Circuli et Hyperbole Nicholas Mercator (1668) Logarithmo-technia...
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  • commented that CGI effects were overused, as were clichéd soundbites and hyperbole that seemed intended to move the narrative along. Tom Shales of The Washington...
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    to some critics, Gogol's grotesque is a "means of estranging, a comic hyperbole that unmasks the banality and inhumanity of ambient reality". See: Fusso...
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    attendance at the 1912 Rock Island gathering. He declared, with evident hyperbole, that the party was "at least 5,000 percent stronger" than it had been...
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    bless you.” Some players win trophies. Others inspire people. It is not hyperbole to say Didier Drogba did both and helped to end a civil war. —Carl Anka...
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  • "a couple [of] genuinely concerning findings" but were "saturated in hyperbole, marred by omissions of context, and discredited by instances of outright...
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    mapping. In 1651 Christiaan Huygens published his Theoremata de Quadratura Hyperboles, Ellipsis, et Circuli which referred to the work of Saint-Vincent. The...
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    that Nineveh was "turned into mounds and heaps", but this is literary hyperbole. The complete destruction of Nineveh has traditionally been seen as confirmed...
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    feminist activist Diana Fuss. Elaine Showalter calls Paglia "unique in the hyperbole and virulence of her hostility to virtually all the prominent feminist...
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  • a second-term Trump, the former SDSers were engaging in "melodramatic hyperbole", and that climate change was not an issue that could wait until 2024...
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  • The Main Drag 2000s Indie Rock Mar 4, 2010 Oct 26, 2010 Jan 18, 2011 "Hyperbole" Glass Hammer 2000s Prog Mar 4, 2010 No No "Icarus' Song" Furly 2000s...
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    a remark described by Jewish journalist, Matthew Norman, as "deranged hyperbole", "absurd" and "grotesque" and by David Baddiel as "bollocks". In March...
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  • Kenny has his greatest magic trick yet, Captain Literally saves us from hyperbole, and the long awaited will of Ezekiel Josiah Worthington is read. 15 5...
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  • in these passages as over-interpretation, as these passages are mainly hyperbole. 1 Thessalonians 4:3-4 reads: “What God wants is for you all to be holy...
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    Hiltermann, who objected to Finkelstein's "abrasiveness, righteous anger, hyperbole, distortions and unwarranted generalizations", and to his generalizations...
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  • New Knowledge against accusations that he called "wild conflation and hyperbole" while Gabbard alleged that NBC was using guilt by association to target...
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    exaggerating to voters has roots in the world of New York real estate, where hyperbole is common. Lucas Graves, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison...
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  • Caitlin (2023-12-19). "Lake lawyers say her claims about Richer were 'hyperbole'". Arizona Mirror. Retrieved 2024-04-08. Sievers, Caitlin (2023-06-23)...
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    assignment and gave it an F, with comments like, "exaggeration -- avoid hyperbole," and "contradicts earlier statement." In 2014 Cassidy co-sponsored an...
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    complex's focal point was the Djeser-Djeseru or "the Holy of Holies". Hyperbole is common to virtually all royal inscriptions of Egyptian history. While...
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    award reads, in part, "One can say perfectly correctly, and without any hyperbole: the modern study of the U.S. Congress would be simply unthinkable without...
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  • Hines criticized these feminists for fueling "rhetoric of paranoia and hyperbole" against trans people, saying that they abandon or undermine feminist...
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