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 literary ...

'Earth-shatteringly good' pizzas may not live up to their billing, but, linguistically, we'll never escape the cycle of exaggeration "Beyond unbelievable, will return" says a happy traveller of her ...

As a politician, I have become all-too-accustomed to hyperbole, a figure of speech in which extreme exaggeration is used for effect. Many of the best-known examples of hyperbole have become such ...