Its rhythm, its strong and numerous metaphors, its hyperboles, its violent inversions, are simply exaggerations of the traits of excited speech.
The original belongs to the kind which the Spaniards call Comedias de Figuron: it also has undoubtedly been spoiled by Scarron, The worst of the matter is, that his exaggerations are trifling without being amusing.
Lear is choleric, overbearing, and almost childish from age, when he drives out his youngest daughter because she will not join in the hypocritical exaggerations of her sisters.
But Cobbett was also personal in the less satisfactory sense; he could only multiply monsters who were exaggerations of his enemies or exaggerations of himself.
Though we ought not to suspect the noble historian of exaggerations to the disadvantage of Charles's measures, this fact, it must be owned, appears somewhat incredible.
The affair was known and talked of every where the next day, and the story was told especially at odious Mrs. Luttridge's, with such exaggerations as drove me almost mad.
This is the ordinary theme of the Russian novel in which one finds, as Lemaître remarks, “the Kalmuck exaggerations of our French romantic ideas.
Mere whirlwinds of words, mere melodramas of earth and heaven do not affect us as Dickens affects us, because they are exaggerations of nothing.
Some witnesses prove altogether too much; encourage them and lead them by degrees into exaggerations that will conflict with the common sense of the jury.
All these considerations should readily suggest a line of questions, varying with each witness examined, that will, if closely followed, be likely to separate appearance from reality and to reduce exaggerations to their proper proportions.
You admit that the "Christian churches have by theirexaggerations and shortcomings, and by their faults of conduct, contributed to bring about a condition of hostility to religious faith.
She regarded the exaggerations of her childish tenderness with a gentle irony.
If such pride of race could not but be injurious, Christophe was not touched by it: he could appreciate the illusions of filial love, and never dreamed of criticising the exaggerations of a sacred feeling.
Why does it seem worth while to dwell upon these exaggerations and untruths?
Nor are English medical writers alone guilty of blunders and exaggerations concerning the effect of experiments on animals.
The grossest of these exaggerations are contained in Thatcher's Military Journal and Drake's Book of the Indians.
Without attempting in any way to excuse what was blamable therein, we may very well make use of the abuse itself, by considering that it frequently happens that abuses are only exaggerations of a good principle.
Who is not aware of the exaggerations given to the prerogatives of royal power, when the Jesuits were to be expelled, and the authority of the Sovereign Pontiff impugned?
The great souls of the latter appear to the others asexaggerations of history.
I will not deny that there are exaggerationsin the eulogiums which some Spanish writers have given to that prince.
In unsparing and vituperative denunciation they certainly excel; but are they not filled with the most gross exaggerations and misrepresentations, not to say willful falsehoods.
The more extreme assertions, especially in regard to the Magi, are to be regarded as exaggerations of the Greeks, and owed their origin to their astonishment at a custom which was more than revolting.
Yet, in spite of all the distortions and exaggerations and displacements, Sharaku's satyrical faces live.
His work no longer kept its earlier freshness; his exaggerations became coarser; his invention grew less fertile.
A child's imagination reaches out more or less vaguely, though often to his satisfaction, for a visualization of the exaggerations of nature which appear in almost all fables and fairy tales.
Through all the fun, the burlesque, the amusing exaggerations and the bombastic humor runs a scheme of advice and instruction.
That these descriptions contain exaggerations and distortions is not improbable, but it cannot be denied that much contained in the reports must be true.
As Nietzsche's works, notwithstanding some limitations, exaggerations and minor errors, embody the foremost philosophical thought of the age, it will be one of our special objects to introduce these works to English readers.
With the easy exaggerations of the night-time he could picture himself fighting duels with punctilious Austrian noblemen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exaggerations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
