Leaning hard on the sensitive-brat charm of the eleven-year-old Macaulay Culkin, they duplicate and exaggerate every laugh-getting, tearjerking separation and reunion, every crowd-pleasing gibe and gambit.
As early as age 3, children have what researchers call a "positivity bias" a tendency to see themselves as smart regardless of their abilities, and to exaggerate positive traits in others, says a 2010 study in the journal Child Development Perspectives.
But it's part of what lies behind the exasperated tone to the statement from the Clyde shipbuilder unions, effectively saying (I paraphrase and perhaps exaggerate a bit): "grow up, both sides, it's our jobs at stake, and there's other stuff going on besides your constitutional obsessions".
By-elections with low turnouts can often exaggerate and distort the picture - and it is dangerous to read too much into them.
The problem is that polemical writers exaggerate and skew the facts.
Both Microsoft and its enemies exaggerate the importance of this event.
"He was intimidated by congressional isolationists, whose strength he tended to exaggerate, and was loath to challenge them, " Olson writes.
Even in the early silent days when films were black and white, actors exaggerate moves to make up for the camera limitations.
Analysts worry that some of the money going into these products has been used to make high-interest loans to risky private businesses shunned by the banks themselves, a phenomenon critics say could exaggerate loan and investment losses in China's financial system if an economic slowdown led to widespread defaults.
Hyping your company is not just a natural tendency to exaggerate your size and importance.
We tend to exaggerate our differences and become extremely used to our own set of biases.
Progressives exaggerate the excesses and failures of free enterprise while affording government moral approbation.
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Stock valuations in the whole health care sector fluctuate a lot, and biotech stocks tend to exaggerate those price movements.
Someone subsequently diagnosed with a brain tumour might easily be biased, consciously or unconsciously, to exaggerate the former and misstate the latter.
Thick lips exaggerate his frown and make it seem as though he were communicating some intuited foreknowledge of the mistake he is about to make.
Head of student affairs Faisal Hanjra said he believed such a step was not generally useful because it tended to exaggerate the threat and blow the issue out of proportion.
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And there is evidence that the poorly-regulated mortgage brokers - whose job it was to check the income of potential mortgagees - and the home appraisers, who had to value the property - began to exaggerate both the income of their clients and the value of the homes, thus getting higher fees themselves.
These p-and-f projections can sometimes exaggerate trends, but just consider an economic environment where the 10-years are yielding more than 6%.
We all exaggerate a little, and if it helped him get the job, and his skill as CEO saves the company, what can possibly be so wrong with that?
Second, the republics have already stated their willingess to cooperate in the control of nuclear weapons.... I don't think we should exaggerate this fear, and I don't think that we should be blackmailed by the threat.
Students and taxpayers alike suspect that trade schools exaggerate the career success of their graduates.
Still, it's hard to exaggerate the effect that Thor and a growing band of capitalists have had on their countryfolk.
We exaggerate spectacular rare events, and downplay familiar and common ones.
Critics say repeal advocates exaggerate the impact on small businesses and family farms.
So the stress tests' methodological approach of averaging recent trading losses would exaggerate RBS's current fragility and vulnerability to loss - and in a sense would discriminate against it.
He starts with an emphasis on good management, looking for companies with leaders who are experienced, have prior success, and appear trustworthy rather than promoters who might exaggerate claims.
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Despite these similarities in both their overall strategies and specific policies, the parties will seek to exaggerate the differences.
Cartoonists love to exaggerate the features of their favorite subjects and John Edwards, Democrat John Kerry's running mate, is no exception.
Acknowledging this, Mahathir stroked his chin and smilingly said that he did not mean to exaggerate the importance of the issue.
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