We may say without exaggeration that what was henceforth finest in the religion of Israel had, however ancient its sources, been recast in the furnace of his spirit.
To avoidexaggeration here, we must keep in mind how large a part personality played in their teaching also, and from how deep in their lives their messages sprang.
Notwithstanding some exaggeration which may be noted in the description of Azurara, it is beyond doubt that the bird of which he treats here is that which the Negroes of the Senegal call Tock, and which the Portuguese named Croes.
They are so numerous now that it is hardly an exaggeration to say that every circle of human beings which meets can supply one.
Apart from all his splendid exuberance and exaggeration he had very real roots of grand literature within him.
It is not likely that this inland sea is a mere exaggeration of the present Great Salt Lake, because the views of that sheet of water are everywhere limited by islands in such a way as to give to the eye the effect of exceeding narrowness.
The names of the chiefs and of the canoes are given in a sort of "catalogue of ships," and the wars of the settlers are narrated at length, with the heroic exaggeration common to the legends of all lands.
In truth there is among Americans an exaggerated estimate of the offensive powers of Great Britain; and such is the jealousy of young nations that this exaggeration becomes of itself a cause of danger.
There is something, no doubt, of the exaggeration of political jealousy about the accounts of New York vice given in New England and down South, in the shape of terrible philippics.
I had no means of ascertaining the number of men killed and wounded: reports were contradictory, and exaggeration unanimous.
Generally a high beau ideal is no proof of a people’s practical pre-eminence, and when exaggeration enters into it and suits the public taste, a low standard of actuality may be fairly suspected.
He bowed with an exaggeration that was a veiled sneer.
The exaggeration matched the ultra-smartness of his English riding-clothes and the un-English flashiness of his good looks.
It's not an exaggeration to say I'd give my life for you.
And the exaggeration of production due to its isolation from ignored consumption so hypnotizes attention that even would-be reformers, like Marxian socialists, assert that the entire social problem focuses at the point of production.
The exaggeration of the harmony attributed to Nature aroused men to note its disharmonies.
Its exaggeration of individuality is largely a compensatory reaction against the pressure of institutional rigidities.
She appears calm and serious now; no bursts of violent emotion; no exaggeration of distress.
By a studied carelessness, an artful exaggeration of his deficiencies, he courted humiliation, ejection in favor of the dummy.
There was something, too, that was refreshing in hearing the small talk of a celebrity, often a little doubtful in grammar, and interspersed now and then with a little generous exaggeration that she liked.
I suppose that without much metaphor orexaggeration one might say that the poor cretin's bushel of corn is gone into that ridiculous ironclad over there.
His oddities, which would have rejoiced the heart of Dickens, are not without significance in a study of his literary work, for his love of emphasis and exaggeration are reflected in both the substance and style of his novels.
His boyish exaggeration makes Leonella, Antonia's aunt, seem like a pantomime character, who has inadvertently stepped into a melodrama, but the caricature is amusing by its very crudity.
The inflamed imagination, the violent exaggeration of emotion and of character, the jeering cynicism and lack of tolerance, the incoherent formlessness, are all indications of adolescence.
Her name is Bledsoe, and it is not an exaggeration to say that her house, small as it is, contains an endowed room always at Mr. Bentley's disposal.
It is improbable, then, that Strabo deserves to be taxed with exaggeration when he assigns the height of a stadium of 591 ft.
For exaggeration to be comic, it must not appear as an aim, but rather as a means that the artist is using in order to make manifest to our eyes the distortions which he sees in embryo.
Exaggeration is always comic when prolonged, and especially when systematic; then, indeed, it appears as one method of transposition.
People had wearied of the pompous parade of allegory, the tyranny of splendour, the monotony of luxury; they took refuge in another extreme--in the exaggeration of grace and all the coquetries of sentiment.
A cartoon of that time with strange exaggeration represents one man saying to his friend, "So-and-so has obtained a third contract from the government.
Yet the historians who analyze these reports find a large amount of exaggeration in the statements.
But the alleged article of faith was simply an exaggeration of that faith, and the objections lay altogether against the exaggeration of it.
To us there seems to be some exaggeration in this way of putting the matter.
Of all theologians St. John is the least likely to fall into the exaggeration of libelling the flesh as essentially evil.
Divine truth in its purity and plainness is thus discredited by the exaggeration of the one, or buried in the leaden winding-sheet of the stupidity of the other.
Exaggeration leads to a revenge upon them which is, perhaps, more perilous than neglect.
Disobedience to the law in the shape of exaggeration or redundance of purposive movement indicates functional excess.
From another point of view, some of the tics of this class are merely the exaggeration of certain functions destined for the expression of the ideas of affirmation and negation.
On the other hand, its execution may be inopportune, in which case, provided the form remain normal, it is merely a stereotyped act, and must exhibit the additional features of abruptness and exaggeration ere it rank as a tic.
If they are superfluous and out of place, the absence of exaggeration or absurdity negatives their classification as choreic.
Moreover, it has been pointed out by Oddo[177] that the fact of the habitual exaggeration of tic during the very years when chorea is liable to appear is calculated to confuse the issue.
Conditions such as these present the most intimate analogies to our attitude tics, though in the case of the latter there is always a more or less pronounced exaggeration of muscular contraction, a certain degree of tonic convulsion.
How this end was attained we must consider later on; but there is yet another current prejudice in favour of this exaggeration of individuality which has its influence especially upon modern artists.
Sophocles was a friend and companion of Pericles, and therefore probably of Phidias; and in both alike we see the same harmony and absence of exaggeration that are characteristic of Greek art at its best.
It was with more than his usual extravagance--shown even in a certain exaggeration of respect towards Maruja--that he welcomed the party, and made preparations for the dinner.
There has doubtless been exaggeration as to certain details, and the story of his seraglio at the Parc aux cerfs is largely apocryphal.
But it would be an exaggeration to say, as some have done, that the poor are represented as being the heirs of a blessed hereafter, simply on the ground that they are now poor.
Still less do I desire to counsel the exaggerationof opinions because they are denied--that besetting danger of all controversy.
Take it as a piece of the simplest prose, with no rhetoricalexaggeration about it, that Christ is everything, everything that a man can want.
Either we have here a piece of poetical exaggeration far beyond the limits of poetic license, or 'a greater than Solomon is here.
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