He wished what he now said to be considered as an unexaggerated declaration of his opinion of the merits of the poem; and he hoped it would be considered as nothing improper when he added, that he wished this opinion, thus publicly delivered, to be viewed as an advertisement of the merit of the poem. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The rims of my glasses are brown and a tad pointy—an unexaggerated cat-eye shape with tortoiseshell arms that tuck behind my ears. ❋ Katherine Rosman (2011)
… In person he was of a tall,* commanding presence with a leonine head, with a shock of neatly coifed, long, slightly wavy dark brown mane that came down to the nape of his neck, with an unexaggerated but ample moustache. ❋ Hannah Pakula (2009)
In this way Rothenberg moves from the outward. the iconic, the visual, the monolingual to filling the molds, the rejected forms, the questionable objects with an unexaggerated, denotative profusion taken carelessly from the daily. ❋ EILEEN (2009)
I note that book publishing itself is becoming much more honest, truthful, unimpeachable, authentic, and precise about everything from numbers of books sold to the unvarnished, unexaggerated, unerring, and unaffected stories it tells as all who toil and sweat in this scrupulous business strive as best we can to maintain the veracious sheen-of-sham and hocus pocus so inherently attached like Superglue to our equivocated reputations for flimflam and fiddle-dee-dee. ❋ Unknown (2009)
"Long Day's Journey" is, after all, a five-character, one-set play, and even though four of the characters are members of a theatrical family, their intramural sniping is easier to take — and to sympathize with — when presented on the unexaggerated scale enabled by the Touchstone Theatre and encouraged by John Langs, the director of this production. ❋ Unknown (2009)
While some players are eccentric in their shooting, his shots, with only occasional exceptions, are straightforward and unexaggerated. ❋ Mark Kriegel (2007)
I like unexaggerated intercourse; it is not my way to overpower with amorous epithets, any more than to worry with selfishly importunate caresses. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Or whether the rough dispelling of any bright illusion, however imaginative, depreciates the real and unexaggerated brightness which appertains to its basis, one cannot say. ❋ Unknown (2006)
All of the pain I described was not only completely unexaggerated, it was actually less dramatic than my real life experience. ❋ Whitehelmet (2005)
It would be natural if in such a time of confusion the calm tones of unexaggerated literary art should be not so much heeded as the more strident voices. ❋ Unknown (2004)
There they are, unexaggerated, in their literality, precisely as I conceived them at the time they happened. ❋ Henry Morton (2004)
The personal description of Elshender of Mucklestane – Moor has been generally allowed to be a tolerably exact and unexaggerated portrait of David of Manor Water. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The pencil is conscious of a delightful facility in drawing a griffin — the longer the claws, and the larger the wings, the better; but that marvellous facility which we mistook for genius is apt to forsake us when we want to draw a real unexaggerated lion. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It certainly does, but it has the virtue of being unexaggerated, and why shrink from the telling of the plain truth? ❋ Unknown (2003)
From such ravings as these, he would suddenly become collected, and with unexaggerated but terrific words, paint the horrors of the time; describe with minute detail, the effects of the plague on the human frame, and tell heart-breaking tales of the snapping of dear affinities — the gasping horror of despair over the death-bed of the last beloved — so that groans and even shrieks burst from the crowd. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I would have you investigate it now with the sole view of forming to yourself some unexaggerated, intelligent estimate of whatever battering-ram power may be lodged there. ❋ Unknown (2002)
As with astronauts floating in free fall, motions had to be deliberate and unexaggerated. ❋ CLIVE CUSSLER (2000)