He said some of his extreme statements had been a tactic to irk American officials.

"That's an extreme statement, you know," Oprah said.

The paintings are extreme statements that are almost always, to some degree, convincing.

The food tasted as good as it looked-a most extreme statement.

These same universities, she said, permit extreme statements or behavior from what she called "the fascist left."

During the trial, the defendant Wiens appeared reserved but was noted for extreme statements.

"She has not made any extreme leftist statements since she's been in the party," Ms. Oliver said.

But once they start talking, both take an almost exhibitionistic pleasure in making extreme statements.

Fortunately, extreme statements of this kind did not find their way into the resolution, so I only abstained.

Certainly, the vice president's problems with veracity and fund-raising, as well as some of his extreme statements about the environment, justify this approach.