So the hyperbole is not actually surprising.

They're not shy of hyperbole as you can see.

So some of you may be thinking, Gosh, that's hyperbole.

Of course what we did when faced with such outrageous hyperbole ...

And the problem with saying that, of course, is that you know, at this point it risks hyperbole really easily.

It's not hyperbole to say that these civil society institutions and these social entrepreneurs are building real alternatives to the Taliban.

I was exploring, at the time, the hyperbole of icons and Diana and Marilyn and the importance of celebrity in our lives.

NGO's vary enormously in their organization, budgets, accountability, and sense of responsibility for the accuracy of their claims. It is hyperbole when activists call such movements the world's other superpower, yet governments ignore them at their peril.

To say that 0.25 , or even 1 , is high in this environment is pure hyperbole. And while one shouldn t overstate the risks of sustained ultra low rates to financial stability, it is also wrong to dismiss them entirely.

Unfortunately, the parallel between today s US crisis and previous financial crises is not mere hyperbole. The qualitative parallels are obvious banks using off balance loans to finance highly risky ventures, exotic new financial instruments, and excessive exuberance over the promise of new markets.

MEXICO CITY Mexico, a stagnant and violence plagued country in recent years, finally began to overcome its malaise in 2013, thanks to an activist president and a coalition of political parties determined to move the country forward. But, alongside substantive changes, there is considerable uncertainty and hyperbole.

The causes of obesity are complex, and the science of understanding human behavior is embryonic but it is not hyperbole to call the problem an epidemic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly 18 of children aged 6 11 in the US are not just overweight, but obese.

Such hyperbole must be firmly rejected, for it offends the memory of those who suffered as a result of Vichy France s collaboration with Nazi Germany. After the Gestapo arrested my father in Nice in 1943, he was escorted by French gendarmes to the transit camp at Drancy, in the Paris suburbs, before being deported to Auschwitz.