Accusations of Vanity "We're not ready for this," another said happily, sticking with a debate that ranged from hyperbolic praise of Mr. Gorbachev to accusations of Napoleonic vanity.

Although this may sound like yet more hyperbolic praise for technology, researchers like Stuart I. Feldman, director of the Institute of Advanced Commerce at I.B.M., say these Internet assets could lead to a new type of marketplace.

The inadequacy of most medieval accounts of art is mentioned above; they generally lack any specific details other than cost and the owner or donor, and hyperbolic but wholly vague praise.

This gentler approach, free from bitterness about James's own problems as an artist, has attracted sometimes hyperbolic praise.

I like Kanye's music but the hyperbolic praise is ridiculous.

He is Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys, a scrappy and brilliant group from Yorkshire that is currently awash in hyperbolic praise.

Fineman observes that the tragic events of the poem are set in motion precisely by Collatine's hyperbolic praise of Lucrece; it is his "boast of Lucrece' sov'reignty" (29) that kindles Tarquin's profane desire.

He has registered what people have said about him through the years, and he doesn't necessarily mind a little hyperbolic praise, including being compared to Jesus walking on water.

This hyperbolic praise has been deprecated by later critics, but the play has still earned plaudits for treating important ethical issues.

Gary Schmidgall notes that the underlying conceit of the sonnet derives from Petrarch, for whom hyperbolic praise is a main part of the stock in trade.