Exaggeration and hyperbole are constant campaign companions, as useful and expected as hammers and saws on a construction site.
Pardon the hyperbole, but there has never been a more aptly titled Good Wife episode than “Hitting the Fan.”
Film festival reviews are, as is their wont, often prone to hyperbole.
Finke, who regularly breaks showbiz news, is the master of hyperbole.
So ignore the hyperbole of the candidates and the hysteria of the partisan commentators.
We have here an example of this adventurer's style of exaggeration and hyperbole.
hyperbole means by definition that which is untrue and incredible.
I understand now the Western hyperbole of “hitting the high places.”
The figure of a quiet slumber is no hyperbole, but a sober verity.
The hyperbole is their principal forte, but what is lying but imagination?
early 15c., from Latin hyperbole, from Greek hyperbole "exaggeration, extravagance," related to hyperballein "to throw over or beyond," from hyper- "beyond" + bole "a throwing, a casting, the stroke of a missile, bolt, beam," from bol-, nominative stem of ballein "to throw" (see ballistics). Rhetorical sense is found in Aristotle and Isocrates.
An exaggerated, extravagant expression. It is hyperbole to say, “I'd give my whole fortune for a bowl of bean soup.”
