Exaggerated

Famous quotes containing the word exaggerated:

“Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.”
—Christopher Lasch (b. 1932)

“The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“In most other modern societies working mothers are not put under these special and exaggerated pressures. For example, French and English mothers often prefer to breast-feed their babies, but they do not feel that their womanhood is at stake if they fail to do so. Nor does anyone else.”
—Sylvia Ann Hewitt (20th century)