Hyperbole

As the Gorse Fox prepares for another scintillating week he reflected on the news reports of previous few days. It occurs to him that if we are to believe what we read (which we perhaps we shouldn't) people have lost their sense of proportion. It would appear that in the papers:

• Irritation regarding some event or action is designated ANGER or occasionally OUTRAGE
• Disagreement over a principle is always FURY
• A difference of opinion among colleagues is a REVOLT
• The imposition of a regulation is a CRACK DOWN
• A few letters of complaint make an OUTCRY or STORM
• Speaking in public against some person or organisation is an ATTACK
• Embarrassment over some misdemeanour or peccadillo is SHAME
• Mild surprise is obviously described as SHOCK
• A change of mind is an HUMILIATING U-TURN

Makes you wonder how people survive with such extreme emotions being vented all the time. The Gorse Fox would love to read a headline: "Opposition Expresses Irritation at the Government's Stance".