8 sentences with “exaggerated”

Allergy is an exaggerated reaction of the immune system to harmless substances.

The Baroque is a style of art that is very exaggerated and striking. It is often characterized by opulence, grandiloquence, and excess.

He wondered, as he did so, if cigarettes might not be an exaggerated precaution.

Although some of the stories of his personal sadism are exaggerated, there is no doubt that Caligula was a disastrous emperor.

The idea of the statesman-turned-secret-agent "contains such a ridiculously exaggerated perception of personal position and influence that the court must dismiss the defendant's proffered motives."

Although Kant's essay probably exaggerated the utopian qualities of the thinking of his time, he was right that it corresponded to a major shift in the way educated Europeans thought about the world and the place of humans in it.

One example of this is the "Venus figures" depicting pregnant women with exaggerated physical features. Similar figures can be seen throughout the ancient Middle East and Europe, demonstrating that ancient peoples hoped to give form to the forces that were most important to them.

There were some notable contrasts between the ideology of Victorian life and its lived reality. While much of the fear of social degeneration was exaggerated, it is also true that alcoholism became much more common (both because alcohol was cheaper and because urbanisation lent itself to casual drinking), and drug use became widespread.