Quotes About Exaggerated

Sebastian sighed an exaggerated sigh and swung the door shut. Clary stared at Jace. "What the f-" "Language, Fray." Jace's eyes danced. "Relax.

The usefulness of the bulk collection program has been greatly exaggerated. We have yet to see any proof that it provides real, unique value in protecting national security. In spite of our repeated requests, the N.S.A. has not provided evidence of any instance when the agency used this program to review phone records that could not have been obtained using a regular court order or emergency authorization.

In retrospect, the populist panic may have been overblown. Regarding Brexit, for example, the shock exaggerated its meaning. Because it was so unexpected, it became a sensation.

The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.

and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether. 

Sometimes I'm dramatic even to myself.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.

There's this myth that has been exacerbated by others that Starbucks means a $4 cup of coffee, which is not true.

Goodstein demonstrated that in every case, when compared with the actual costs paid, the estimates were grossly inflated.6 His examples range from asbestos to vinyl, and in all instances but one the estimated cost flowing from regulatory change was at least double the actual cost paid, while in some cases estimates were even more exaggerated.

In any living organism, an exaggerated or excessive reaction indicates fear and insecurity.

Welcome to our border city, sir. But what are you here for?" Ka explained that he had come to cover the municipal elections and also perhaps to write about the suicide girls. "As in Batman, the stories about the suicide girls have been exaggerated," the journalist replied. "Let's go over to meet Kas?m Bey, the assistant chief of police. They should know you've arrived—just in case.

he said that in an case the past was little more than a dream and its force in the world was greatly exaggerated. for the world was made each day and it was only men's clinging to its vanished husks that could make of that world one husk more

Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

Leftists bruit about statistics on accidents where children are killed with revolvers. But these data are wildly exaggerated by including the shooting deaths of young, teenaged gang-bangers, whose deaths are certainly purposeful.

Though such depictions of Kehoe as a kind of junior Thomas Edison who eventually turned his "inventive genius" to evil purposes were wildly exaggerated, it is clear that he possessed exceptional mechanical skills. Records show that he was "at the head of his high school physics class."6

There are a lot more tabloids in England that like to report other things in your life, some of which are true and some of which are exaggerated and untrue. There have been stories where people claim to have seen me in one place and I wasn't even in that city then. The Aussie press is more judgmental and moralistic.

Balzac's ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. He exaggerated scientifically, and made things gigantic by a microscopic fulness of detail.

A drawback to success in life is that failure, when it does come, acquires an exaggerated importance.

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

The extravagant and ostentatious lifestyles that pass for charisma in a time when almost anybody talks about charisma but if you think about it there's precious little to be seen.

The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful.

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator.