O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.
Washington is paralyzed by extreme political rhetoric that creates powerful sound bites but poor policy.
The speaking in perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.
1st Baron Verulam
He spoke in a big bow-wow style of oratory. His speeches leave the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea. Sometimes these meandering words would actually capture a straggling thought and bear it triumphantly, a prisoner in their midst, until it died of servitude and overwork.
Criticizing the oratory of President Warren G. Harding:
The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.
I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.
If he smiled much more, the ends of his mouth might meet behind, and then I don't know what would happen to his head! I'm afraid it would come off!
Bollywood being Bollywood, you hear promises all the time.
I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk.
He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.
I tweeted that Tom Brady's politics are 'garbage,' which may have been hyperbolic.