You can dismiss this as hyperbolic or over-the-top, but it is what it is.

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But as the industry alights on grievances, both real and hyperbolic, the political class as a whole could discover that the brokering has only just begun.

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All of which makes your opening comment about sugar being something we need to shun at best hyperbolic and, as science, rather hard to swallow.

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From a low of 5 million barrels per day in 2008 output has shot up in a hyperbolic curve to 7 million bpd as of last week.

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Terry Gilliam had a good idea to re-create the origins of the fairy-tale-spinning Brothers Grimm but, as it turns out, the movie is yet another noisy, hyperbolic, digital farce, with people jumping in and out of the frame and turning into corpses and then coming back to life, trees endlessly moving around the woods, and much general tumult, and the movie quickly becomes tedious.

NEWYORKER: The Brothers Grimm