As I noted the other day, this is particularly true for software devices and other complex products, where trivial changes can be exaggerated in an effort to run out the clock on a patent.
Hypercrisy might thus be a signal of submissiveness one that is exaggerated in creatures that feel themselves to be in the wrong place in the hierarchy.
The United States still has big problems with race (see article), but its effect in the general election may be exaggerated.
Privately, some diplomats concede that the numbers may be exaggerated by regional officials who have business contracts in the lucrative and booming security sector in countries like Nigeria.
"The excitement of the last four years in obesity research can't be exaggerated, " says Professor O'Rahilly.
But the part of religion and of Jerusalem in the Palestine conflict can also be exaggerated.
Many people point to the Iranian influence in Iraq but I believe this to be exaggerated.
They explain that the long hours worked by young lawyers in large law firms can be rationalised as an exaggerated signal of commitment to their firm.
Nonita Kalra, the executive editor of the Indian edition of international fashion magazine Elle, similarly believes the power of the media in determining women's beauty aspirations should not be exaggerated.
Sir Stephen Wall, who is very keen on the UK remaining in the EU, concedes that in economic terms, the consequences of leaving should not be exaggerated.
Yohalem thought that by making certain moments SO absurd, Jason rallying the natives to victory, ritual sex in front of the tribe, that it was obviously supposed to be over-exaggerated, but no one really took it as such.
This is the beauty of animation: it allows a cerebral joke to expand through, say, exaggerated facial expressions that a human being might not be able to perform, or have a character in a setting not normally available in real life (when was the last time you traveled to a liger breeding facility?).
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Islamist extremists seem particularly active in the east, including such towns as Derna and Tobruk, though their numbers may be exaggerated.
Our correspondent says that most worryingly of all, perhaps, for President Bush there now appears to be a shift in public opinion with the latest polls showing that a majority of Americans now believe the White House exaggerated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
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