This extravagant praise, moreover, takes the form of far-fetched metaphors, antitheses, hyperboles, superlatives, elaborate syntax, etc. |
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Chandler's similes and sarcastic hyperboles are full of attitude in the contemporary New York sense. |
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During Mizner's formative years, smart conversation consisted mainly of tired hyperboles. |
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What we want now is a major artist — a Manet, Picasso, Pollock, Warhol, or Beuys — who will manifest durable truths at the core of inevitable hypes and hyperboles. |
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Such statements are intended, in part, as comical hyperboles, but how funny are they, in the end, since most people would like to be on the side of life and hope? |
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At the cross point of straight and adjoining hyperboles on this line, abscissa is equal to doubled atomic mass of the element. |
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