Assertion: hyperbole | /r/HasProperty | beauty
Facets:
value: in a word
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: In a word, the hyperbole is a beauty, when the thing itself, of which we have to speak, is in its nature extraordinary; for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth, because the exact truth cannot be said; and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.