Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
Charles DickensMots clés religion cleanliness doctrine exaggeration primness
These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.
Criss JamiMots clés passion belief christianity religion judgment hypocrisy spirituality criticism christian opposition conflict disagreement apologetics gospel prosperity exaggeration legalism bickering debating arguing denominations argumentation lukewarm
There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all others.
Robert Louis StevensonMots clés shakespeare editing francis-bacon exaggeration aggrandization conflation
I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.
Vera BrittainMots clés exaggeration
Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.
Criss JamiMots clés reason purpose war enemies strategy understanding argument fallacy battle debate exaggeration motives unbiased fallacies biased straw-man straw-man-fallacy strawman strawman-fallacy tactic
The first glance at the pillow showed me a repulsive sentinel perched upon each end of it--cockroaches as large as peach leaves--fellows with long, quivering antennae and fiery, malignant eyes. They were grating their teeth like tobacco worms, and appeared to be dissatisfied about something. I had often heard that these reptiles were in the habit of eating off sleeping sailors' toe nails down to the quick, and I would not get in the bunk any more. I lay down on the floor. But a rat came and bothered me, and shortly afterward a procession of cockroaches arrived and camped in my hair. In a few moments the rooster was crowing with uncommon spirit and a party of fleas were throwing double somersaults about my person in the wildest disorder, and taking a bite every time they stuck. I was beginning to feel really annoyed. I got up and put my clothes on and went on deck.
The above is not overdrawn; it is a truthful sketch of inter-island schooner life.
Mots clés humor sailing ships exaggeration sailor bugs pests schooner
Exaggeration is a standard peculiarity of man. To deprecate is often a form of exaggeration which people do not notice, because it appears to be its opposite.
Idries ShahMots clés exaggeration opposites deprecation
Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.
Emma DonoghueMots clés truth certainty uncertainty emphasis exaggeration definitely
Never exaggerate. It is a matter of great importance to forego superlatives, in part to avoid offending the truth, and in part to avoid cheapening your judgment. Exaggeration wastes distinction and testifies to the paucity of your understanding and taste. Praise excites anticipation and stimulates desire. Afterwards when value does not measure up to price, disappointment turns against the fraud and takes revenge by cheapening both the appraised and the appraise. For this reason let the prudent go slowly, and err in understatement rather than overstatement. The extraordinary of every kind is always rare, wherefore temper your estimate.
Baltasar GraciánMots clés exaggeration
Well, that’s because they’re wrong and I’m right. No more reading for you. Let’s go get some ice cream.”
“I don’t know if the kitchen has any,” Joel said. “It’s hard to get in the summers, and—”
“Not from the kitchen, stupid,” Melody said, rolling her eyes. “From the parlor out on Knight Street.”
“Oh. I’ve … never been there.”
“What! That’s a tragedy.”
“Melody, everything is a tragedy to you.”
“Not having ice cream,” she proclaimed, “is the culmination of all disasters! That’s it. No more discussion. We’re going. Follow.
Mots clés humor ice-cream exaggeration
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