Former CNN boss Chris Licht took a swipe at the "hyperbole" from the legacy media leading up to last week's historic victory of President-elect Donald Trump. Speaking at the Yahoo Finance Invest ...
Bleaching as a type of semantic change is often mentioned in works on grammaticalization, but very few studies focus on how bleaching occurs. The literature on hyperbole as a figure of speech notes ...
Hyperbole is exaggerating for a purpose – it is not meant to be taken literally and it's used to emphasise a point. In his poem Sounds of the Day, Norman MacCaig describes the end of a relationship.
This isn’t even a subjective point. What we have is a bout of escalating competitive hyperbole in which the wild overstatement keeps getting ramped up because no one is willing to step up and ...
Hospitality is the heart and soul of the travel industry. Whether you’re a marketer for an airline, hotel, car rental company, or Online Travel Aggregator (OTA), your success is proportional to ...
My column a couple of weeks ago on hyperbole elicited the not unexpected comment, “but all this is just simple over-statement. People exaggerate all the time! How can you elevate it to a ...
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