Quotes About Exaggerated

Love is exaggerated affection; affection is unexaggerated love! Always be sober in everything!

His face, with its exaggerated shadows and planes of light, looked alien and pained, like a refugee's.

melodramatic.

exaggerated boogeymen in scary stories told by their elders, who, in the fashion of all old people since the dawn of time, believed theirs had been the vastly harder and more consequential life.

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.

To cover his tracks and mask his erotic withdrawal, he took pleasure in good-naturedly dirty stories and mildly ambiguous allusions, all delivered loudly and with laughter. The mother was his best ally, ever quick to support him with smutty remarks that she would pronounce in some exaggerated, parodic manner, and in her puerile English. Listening to the two of them, Irena got the sense that eroticism had once and for all turned into childish clowning.

So much has been said that is exaggerated, inaccurate, extravagant and open to misinterpretation that I thought that a detailed account could only help and, I hope, prove of considerable public interest.

the greatly exaggerated hullabaloo recently created, largely by newspapers wanting 'a story', about the resurgence of Nazism and anti-Semitism.

As Victorian-era prudishness set in, some upstanding citizens also took to putting coverlets over the instrument's legs out of an exaggerated sense of modesty.

Milly's narrative skill was considerable... she brought a scene to life by a chance descriptive detail in the right place and by that graphic and right placing of words which most of the Irish excel at. She had no Irish blarney, she never exaggerated. I could listen to Milly for hours.

and NPD stands for narcissistic personality disorder. It means that he's got exaggerated feelings of self-importance, a need for self-admiration, and a lack of empathy. People with that problem spend too much time worrying about success in everything, as well as their personal appearance. They tend to take advantage of the people around them. The problem usually starts early in childhood. He should've had some kind of therapy when he was a little boy.

Art is life. Life is art. The importance of both is over-exaggerated as well as misunderstood.

When you do a movie as opposed to a TV show, it's always tempting to think everything has to be big and exaggerated and spectacular. And in fact, a lot of the funniest comedy films have been very intimate.

Hollywood is something else. It's such an exaggerated idea. The concept of what 'beautiful' really is is ludicrous.

I guess we all can't help peeking at our own imperfections, just like we can't help scratching a scab that keeps itching. When those imperfections are pasted across your face like that, exaggerated and magnified, it's hard to find all those good thoughts you have about yourself. If you believe those distorted reflections too deeply, you'll never get out of the maze.

She puckered her bubble gum mouth until its exaggerated sensuality drew attention away from the blood-blue crescents beneath her eyes. "My bags may be packed, but I haven't left town. No wonder Ricki finds me irresistible. She's only human." Leaning

The U.S. conceit that its financial and regulatory system could withstand massive capital inflows on a sustained basis without any problems arguably laid the foundations for the global financial crisis of the late 2000s. The thinking that "this time is different"—because this time the U.S. had a superior system—once again proved false. Outsized financial market returns were in fact greatly exaggerated by capital inflows, just as would be the case in emerging markets.

I say, Rodney, there's one of your typical Scottish 'raggediers' now." His accent was British, exaggeratedly well-bred.

I'm a large, bombastic type of windbag.

He has a kind of exaggerated politeness that is kind of like a military man.

Stop! Hersey cried out. Stop! something appalling is happening to all of us. We're saying things we'll regret for the rest of our lives. We're merely speaking the truth [William Compline] It's the sort that shouldn't be spoken. It's a beastly lop-sided exaggerated truth.

Everybody agreed that the styles for that summer of 1914 were the most extreme since the Restoration

And I agree," said Damon, extending his own hand with exaggerated courtesy. He captured Elena's before she could say anything. "In fact, we all seem to be in a frenzy of pure agreement.