Have you ever been so hungry you could eat a horse? Or so tired you could sleep for a million years? If so, congratulations—you’re familiar with hyperbole (even if you couldn’t define it to save your ...

Congratulations to Andy Kessler (“Lay Down Your Weaponization,” Inside View, Jan. 29) for providing another page of content for the book I will never write, “The Hyperbole Apocalypse: How the Humans ...

In recent weeks, there has been some lively discussion on this page about parsing words and use of language, especially when it comes to political agendas. All sides seem to be willing to exaggerate, ...