What's the difference between exaggerated and sensationalism?

Exaggerated


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Exaggerate
  • (a.) Enlarged beyond bounds or the truth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was concluded that B. pertussis infection-induced hypoglycaemia was secondary to hyperinsulinaemia, possibly caused by an exaggerated insulin secretory response to food intake.
  • (2) Conclusion 1 says that "deliberate attempts were made to frustrate these interviews" – which appears to be an exaggeration.
  • (3) The first is that the supposed exaggerated winter birthrate among process schizophrenics actually represents a reduction in spring-fall births caused by prenatal exposure to infectious diseases during the preceding winter--i.e., a high prenatal death rate in process preschizophrenic fetuses.
  • (4) In short, it says the IPCC exaggerates the warming effect of CO2.
  • (5) The government argued these reports were exaggerated.
  • (6) The exaggerated buckles used do not allow these monkeys to serve as a clinical model and great caution is stressed in making clinical extrapolations.
  • (7) These initial reflex responses were exaggerated in the spastics as compared with the normals.
  • (8) We interpret this exaggerated positive attitude as an attempt to overcome inner fears, doubts and ambivalences.
  • (9) Historically, what made SNL’s campaign coverage so necessary was its ability to highlight the subtle absurdities of the election and exaggerate the ridiculous.
  • (10) Most patients with abnormal OGTT's fell into the latter group, but some had glucose intolerance without either an exaggerated insulin response or insulin resistance.
  • (11) Exaggerations of this presumed daily incremental rhythm lead to the formation of the more major incremental lines which can also be visualized by scanning electron microscopy.
  • (12) An exaggerated insulin response to oral glucose was associated with reactive hypoglycemia in the post-gastrectomy syndrome, in normal-weight patients with chemical diabetes and 44% of the patients with the isolated syndrome.
  • (13) Both the absence of exaggerated splay in patients with reduction of glomerular filtration rate by as much as 85%, and the emergence of exaggerated splay in patients with more marked reduction of GFR, require explanation.
  • (14) In the case of PCP, however exaggerated the story, a real danger does exist.
  • (15) R6-PKC3 cells also show an exaggerated response to very low concentrations of serum, when compared to R6-C1 control cells.
  • (16) It was abnormal in its resistance to habituation and in its exaggerated motor response.
  • (17) This increase is exaggerated when hematocrit levels are increased and the cells are hypochromic and microcytic.
  • (18) These changes were of equal magnitude and in some cases tended to be exaggerated during the second and third matches.
  • (19) A more objective consideration relates to the observed late, progressive deleterious influences of hyperfiltration imposed upon the reduced population of surviving nephrons (3); would this process been exaggerated by improved perfusion?
  • (20) The prose rhythm and colloquial diction here work against exaggeration, but allow for humour.

Sensationalism


Definition:

  • (n.) The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism.
  • (n.) The practice or methods of sensational writing or speaking; as, the sensationalism of a novel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since it was established, it has stoked controversy about contemporary art, though in recent years it has been more notable for its lack of sensationalism.
  • (2) Panic disorder subjects showed a negative relationship between pulmonary function and hyperventilation symptoms, suggesting a heightened sensitivity to, and discomfort with, sensations associated with normal pulmonary function.
  • (3) Frequency of symptoms like dizziness, headache, lachrymation, burning sensation in eyes, nausea and anorexia, etc, were much more in the exposed workers.
  • (4) Independent t test results indicated nurses assigned more importance to psychosocial support and skills training than did patients; patients assigned more importance to sensation--discomfort than did nurses.
  • (5) Substantial percentages of both physicians and medical students reported access to drugs, family histories of substance abuse, stress at work and home, emotional problems, and sensation seeking.
  • (6) The results showed the kind of needling sensation while acupuncture had close relation with the appearance of PSM and the acupuncture effect.
  • (7) Although 95% of the patients are satisfied, 60% have some impairment of sensation in the lower lip.
  • (8) No significant changes in maximal work load, exercise time, systolic blood pressure at maximal work load, or subjective sensation of well-being could be demonstrated during combined drug treatment.
  • (9) Subjective measures of anxiety, frightening cognitions and body sensations were obtained across the phases.
  • (10) The analysis of the neurophysiological correlations of the image formation process is followed by a study of the functional role of the image in psychic dynamics, its genetic relationship with sensation and speech, its role in the communication functions, in the structuring of the relationship between the internal and the external world.
  • (11) These additional cues involved different sensations in effort of the perfomed movement – sliding heavy object vs. sliding light object (sS test), as well as different sensations in pattern of movement and joints - sliding vs. lifting of an object (SL test).
  • (12) Work over the past 17 years has consistently failed to reveal any objective sign accompanying the transient sensations that some individuals experience after the experimental ingestion of monosodium glutamate and it is questionable whether the term 'Chinese Restaurant Syndrome' has any validity.
  • (13) Forty-four patients of meralgia paraesthetica presented with combination of symptoms mainly of numbness with loss of superficial sensation on the anterolateral aspect of a thigh were selected for the study.
  • (14) The incidence of phantom pain and nonpainful phantom sensations was 13.3% and 15.0%, respectively, 3 weeks after mastectomy, 12.7% and 11.8%, respectively, after a year, and 17.4% and 11.8%, respectively, after 6 years.
  • (15) History is littered with examples of byelection sensations that soon turned to dust.
  • (16) The return of sensation is of particular benefit to elderly patients who make up the greatest number of patients in the series.
  • (17) The subjects described the thirst sensations as mainly due to a dry unpleasant tasting mouth, which was promptly relieved by drinking.
  • (18) Similarly, subjects that were trained to focus their attention on the magnitude of the immediate (first) pain sensation evoked by brief electrical or mechanical stimulation did not report reduction by morphine of pain attributed to conduction in myelinated peripheral nociceptors.
  • (19) This scale thus provides a reproducible and sensitive estimation of the sensation of dyspnoea during effort and thus appears valuable in evaluating the subjective response in therapeutic trials in patients who are dyspnoeic on effort.
  • (20) Examination revealed that five patients in the nerve divided group had a small area of altered sensation but this was not significant either for the patient or statistically between the groups.