The Bloch, composed in 1916, sometimes sounds like all the biblical movie scores to come, many of which must have been cribbed from Bloch's hyperbolic style.

The silver-haired Mr. Bruno, 68, is an anomaly among politicians, a man who tends to say what he means, in a blunt, hyperbolic style that often makes him ripe for caricature.

Theoretically, the hyperbolic, theatrical style that Mr. Rinfret mastered as an economic consultant could have been used to tap public discontent over taxes and crime.

He would have liked, in better circumstances, to sit down at the counting table and pen an angry letter to the manufacturers objecting to their hyperbolic style.

In these interviews Țuțea adopted a hyperbolic, rhetorical style and the editor's choices included several controversial topics, such as atheism, Communism and Anti-Semitism.

Publishers Weekly criticized the novel for its "sketchy, meandering plot", "skimpy characterizations" and "hyperbolic, often stunningly repetitious style".

News analysis: Pierre A. Rinfret theoretically could have used his hyperbolic, theatrical style to tap public discontent over taxes and crime.

There's some truth to this, but he seems never to notice the discrepancies; they're built into his own hyperbolic style.

Mr. Edelstein's production, which begins with a lovely, deft visual joke, is otherwise eager to prove that the hyperbolic style of sketch comedy is sustainable throughout an entire play.

Eszterhas has a heated and hyperbolic style of his own, and scarcely requires the doppelg There are two or three chapters that rise above this, however, and that illustrate Eszterhas's hit-or-miss talent.