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Letter "E" » exaggeration
«All news is an exaggeration of life.»
Author: Daniel Schorr
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exaggeration
«Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable»
Author: Hosea Ballou
| Keywords:
blamable, blood relation, exaggeration, exaggerations, falsehood, relation, relation to
«By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
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clarified, clarifies, clarify, clarifying, concept, dislocate, exacerbate, exacerbated, exaggeration, exaggerations, forces, schematize, speaking, undertake, undertook
«Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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blunt, blunted, blunting, blunts, descent, despise, exact, exaggeration, exaggerations, giggle, giggled, giggles, good enough, insistent, notion, sincerity, snivel, sniveling, The Victim, victim
«Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather
(Author)
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bloody, coarse, drunkenness, exaggeration, maudlin, vicious
«Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
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Journalism
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as far as possible, dramatic, dramatic art, exaggeration, exaggerations, journalism, The Object of
«An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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exaggeration, exaggerations, temper, tempering
«Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function»
«Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
companion, Companion of, exaggeration, exaggerations, greatness, inseparable
«All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.»
Author: Walt Disney
(Producer)
| Keywords:
caricatured, caricatures, cartoon, cartoons, cartoon characters, exaggeration, fable, fables, fantasy
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