What's the difference between braggadocio and hyperbole?

Braggadocio


Definition:

  • (n.) A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer.
  • (n.) Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With Huck Finn , he could recall life on America's great river as a permanent thing, a place of menacing sunsets, starlit nights and strange dawns, of the confessions of dying men, hints of buried treasure, murderous family feuds, overheard shoptalk, the crazy braggadocio of travelling showmen, the distant thunder of the civil war, and two American exiles, Huck the orphan and Jim the runaway slave, floating down the immensity of the great Mississippi.
  • (2) Sometimes men launch these attacks on each other, hack each other in displays of techie braggadocio, but it is essentially yet another unwanted cost of being female.
  • (3) And then she allowed his style and braggadocio to rattle her.
  • (4) But he continues to show that he is not being “handled”, and it’s likely he will go on with this bluster and braggadocio.
  • (5) Yes, there are still braggadocio lyrics and attitudes but I would say hip-hop has made great strides.
  • (6) Already, the Kentucky fighter's braggadocio ("I am the prettiest ...
  • (7) But again, Trump seems extreme compared to other candidates, as witnessed in his near-constant self-references, his over-the-top braggadocio and his desire to plaster his name on skyscrapers, casinos, a so-called “university” and steaks.
  • (8) Donald Trump drew oohs and aahs for all of his one-liners and braggadocio , while more centrist candidates like Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and John Kasich drew scepticism and a fair number of boos in the crowded hotel ballroom during Thursday night’s debate.
  • (9) Because people are saying ‘You know, Trump is right … Trump has a point’.” There is so much braggadocio involved in the Donald Trump Show that many people outside his political bubble have become accustomed to taking everything he says with a very large pinch of salt.
  • (10) Hurley's lyrics combine braggadocio and rebellious sloganeering with an underlying sense of bleak urban unease.
  • (11) If someone else was saying this you might take it as idle hip-hop braggadocio, but this is Rick Ross we're talking about.
  • (12) Isis is playing a game of braggadocio and provocation, dressing it up in the language of prisoner exchanges and execution, as though it really is the state it claims to be.
  • (13) Angst experienced after losing all of one's friends following a protracted bout of online braggadocio, often enhanced by the grim, slowly-dawning realisation that the maxim "you only live once" works equally well as a warning against such hubristic carelessness, so maybe you should've frigging well heeded it eh #yolo.
  • (14) Now, Ali – the Greatest, the inventor and ne plus ultra of boxing’s motor-mouth braggadocio – has fallen all but silent.
  • (15) Perhaps that is why I’m most proud of this achievement; the braggadocio is ever-present.

Hyperbole


Definition:

  • (n.) A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed, or by which things are represented as much greater or less, better or worse, than they really are; a statement exaggerated fancifully, through excitement, or for effect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These two types of transfer functions are appropriate to explain the transition to anaerobic metabolism (anaerobic threshold), with a hyperbolic transfer characteristic representing a graded transition; and a sigmoid transfer characteristic representing an abrupt transition.
  • (2) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
  • (3) For a union that, in less than 25 years, has had to cope with the end of the cold war, the expansion from 12 to 28 members, the struggle to create a single currency and, most recently, the eurozone crisis, such a claim risks accusations of hyperbole.
  • (4) Furthermore, illustrations of the types of transfer characteristics observed in different individuals and different training regimens can be obtained, including both hyperbolic (Michaelis-Menten) and sigmoid transfer characteristics.
  • (5) Oyster adductor phosphofructokinase displays hyperbolic saturation kinetics with respect to all substrates (fructose 6-phosphate, ATP, and Mg2+) at either pH 7.9 OR PH 6.8.
  • (6) In it he translated Trump’s coarse ramblings into charming straight talk and came up with the phrase “truthful hyperbole”, which captures brilliantly an approach to business and politics in which everything is the greatest, the most beautiful.
  • (7) Sitting at the table today, Archie is doing his best to look the part – in time-honoured hip-hop style, there is an inspirational motto tattooed on his forearm in flowing script – and he and Foster have an impressive line in managerial hyperbole: "We believe that whatever record label we work for, we can change that label for the better because we understand what kids want to listen to."
  • (8) The plot is still hyperbolic in the presence of La3+, which inhibits Ca2+ transport competitively.
  • (9) -The H-3-testosterone concentration was varied from 0.17-100 times 10-8 M. Plotting the resulting 5-alpha-reduction products as a function of testosterone concentration a hyperbolic pattern of enzyme kinetics ensued.
  • (10) A similar hyperbolic decrease in stoichiometry was observed with vesicles containing 10 or 20% PS when the calcium concentration was increased from 0.4 to 10 mM.
  • (11) The antiport activity measured in this way shows a hyperbolic dependence on external Na+ or Li+ concentration when the external pH (pHo) is 7.2 or higher.
  • (12) It is shown to increase hyperbolically with the time elapsed since the nerve section.
  • (13) The 48-year-old Dubliner has since played down that outburst as the youthful hyperbole of a pilot at Aer Lingus in the early 1980s.
  • (14) When [Ca2+]i is increased, Ica is reduced disproportionately, but the effect is not hyperbolic.
  • (15) A well-defined hyperbolic relationship was found between the two variables indicating that the physiologic level of plasma renin concentration depends on the state of sodium balance.
  • (16) The dependence of DMF upon oxygen concentration in the mixture was approximated by a hyperbolic function similar to the dependence of the radiomodifying effect of circulatory hypoxia caused by radioprotective agents of the indolylalkylamine series.
  • (17) The Bayesian solution to the Behrens-Fisher problem of normal distributions with differing variances was an acceptable compromise after the data had been transformed by the inverse hyperbolic sine method applicable to negative binomials.
  • (18) Several reporter genes with estrogen response elements upstream of the herpes thymidine kinase promoter showed hyperbolic saturation kinetics with increasing ER.
  • (19) In the presence of histidine a change from hyperbolic to sigmoidal kinetics is observed.
  • (20) Binding to enterocytes isolated from both normal and chronically hypoxic mice showed a hyperbolic dependence on medium Fe(III) concentration, consistent with a single class of binding sites.

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