hyperbole

IPA: haɪpˈɝbʌɫi

(uncountable, rhetoric, literature) Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.
(countable) An instance or example of such overstatement.
(countable, obsolete) A hyperbola.

Examples of "hyperbole" in Sentences

I guess hyperbole is only acceptable from the Left.
Responding in kind to exaggeration or hyperbole is neither “appropriate” nor effective.
Aside from the fact that your hyperbole is laughable, I believe it is you and Dawkins who have missed the mark on this.
Because you chose to engage in hyperbole, and use the word “dwarfed”, you are now in an indefensible position, and you know it.
It appears that you are looking past what you call hyperbole only to replace it with your own hyperbole by reading too much into this situation.
Your hyperbole is off the wall. 33% of Americans oppose the death penalty for murder, as do 40% of Democrats, but only 20% GOP per Galliup Poll in 2007.
His hyperbole is intended to prevent informed debate in the fear that people will stop their partisan bickering long enough to actually see that his bill is lousy.
But if his hyperbole is a little unfair, it's not foolish; it would be far more foolish to underestimate the import of the sublime, the degree to which the fame of those rhapsodes rests on how responsive people are to that aesthetic.