exaggerations

There was an announcement over the weekend that that country would host a conference to examine what it called exaggerations about the Holocaust.

CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2006 2006

It involved long drives between distant cities, and negotiations with soldiers and officials, just to get access to the witnesses; as usual, it also involved sorting through difficult stories of the worst sort of suffering, and yet somehow maintaining emotional distance and separating the exaggerations from the facts.

The Accuser 2005

And the fact that he openly courted the left in ginning up anti-war sentiment against President Bush, based on a tissue of lies and exaggerations, is even more telling.

Think Progress » “Left-Wing Radical”: Hannity Kicks Off Next Wilson Smear Campaign 2005

It involved long drives between distant cities, and negotiations with soldiers and officials, just to get access to the witnesses; as usual, it also involved sorting through difficult stories of the worst sort of suffering, and yet somehow maintaining emotional distance and separating the exaggerations from the facts.

The Accuser 2005

Have feminists met their burden of proof in any substantive way, rather than simply denying, minimising, dismissing, or ignoring the proportion of the burden of war that falls upon men, while regurgitating in ever more exaggerated terms the exaggerations of other feminists?

Bikinis and Burkas 2006

He's come out and he's launched a full bore assault on these so-called exaggerations, and people are listening to that.

CNN Transcript - CNN Late Edition: Political Debates Give Viewers Something to Think About; Kostunica Takes Power in Yugoslavia; Violence Continues in Middle East - October 8, 2000 2000

What were called the exaggerations of his writing were due, I have no doubt, to the extraordinary luminosity of his imagination.

What I Remember Trollope, Thomas A 1887

Imagination, -- all from which, when it was all his own, he had turned half weary and impatient, and termed the exaggerations of a visionary romance, now that the world had lost them evermore, he interpreted aright as truths.

My Novel — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

As opposed to Hillary, who has built her entire campaign around her "exaggerations", or as they are turning out, flat out lies.

Report: Both Obama And Clinton Embellished Senate Roles 2009

The problem with these kinds of "exaggerations" is they cast doubt on everything else they say.

An 8-foot-tall cross in Mojave National Preserve, set up by the VFW in 1934 as a war memorial, maintained by the National Park Service. Ann Althouse 2009