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Such incidents serve as important lessons, for in each case Ruburt will be able to see that the fears are unjustified—that a fear is based on anger instead, or that the fear exists but is exaggerated in degree.

[...] I do not want to set up a fear that is an exaggerated fear of distortions, since this might well make him so rigid that he would block perfectly valid material, fearing he was adding distortion.

[...] Especially when they leave their student powerless to resist, though this is somewhat of an exaggeration. [...]

[...] Much of this is involved with the unfortunate myths about this creative person, who is not supposed to be able to deal with the world as well as others, whose idiosyncrasies are exaggerated, and whose very creativity, it is sometimes said, leads to suicide or destruction. [...]

He has been afraid that you felt this way, and has perhaps exaggerated this. [...]

[...] Because you can see so clearly the failings of your age, you each have a tendency to exaggerate them, or rather to concentrate upon them, so that you do not have an emotional feeling of safety. [...]

[...] Much of this is involved with the unfortunate myths about the creative person, who is not supposed to be able to deal with the world as well as others, whose idiosyncrasies are exaggerated, and whose very creativity, it is sometimes said, leads to suicide or depression. [...]

He knew this, this being fairly natural, but he exaggerated your feeling, you see, because of his mental attitude, and felt he would be asking for alms.

[...] Some personalities want to solve their strongest problems and get them over with, perhaps in a series of rather trying existences and exaggerated circumstances.

[...] (Pause.) A few that I discuss may be exaggerated, in that they are not “normal” conditions in most people’s lives. [...]

[...] When the body becomes too tense reactions are exaggerated in certain fashions, bringing forth dejection or depression. [...]

In whatever level of activity he focused his energy, his activities would be strong, exaggerated in terms of others by comparison. [...]

[...] Now there is an exaggerated fear on Ruburt’s part of the word arthritic, for in his mind it is connected with his mother’s chronic state. [...]

[...] He used the last episode (on the back stairs) to trigger an important development in walking up the stairs, but he is not to imagine that everyone else is perfect because they look all right; then he deals with absolutes, becomes frightened, and exaggerates his condition, thinking in physical terms alone and forgetting those inner abilities of his, of creativity, that are indeed so important.

[...] Now some of this he picked up from you, and then exaggerated. [...]

[...] But you so feared your present mother’s sense of exaggeration, that led often to sheer though unwitting lies and dishonesty, that you denied the capacity of the imagination lest it also lead you into ways of deceit.

[...] The three brothers reacted against this exaggerated, powerful and, in the case of the father, hidden emotionalism to varying degrees. [...]

[...] A small segment this evening on television gave you a picture of the confused activity that can take place in exaggerated situations—the segment dealing with the abused children, for there you have parents reacting in the worst possible way to the religious dictums as interpreted by “Sinful Selves.” [...]

Sometimes it seems to me that I cannot get through to either of you in certain areas, for it is precisely your ambiguity and feelings of distrust that cut improvements short, and that aggravate any otherwise briefly experienced discomforts—that is, they become exaggerated and linger.

[...] Now some feelings because they have been inhibited, come out in exaggerated form—the hatred of the bathroom or the bedroom for example.

[...] As contacts with the world are lessened, however, there is little feedback, so that the “dangers” of the world can easily become exaggerated—and little experience is gained in dealing with the far more mundane aspects of such contact.

Before you moved here you imagined, both of you, what oddities you would be in the neighborhood, and exaggerated your differences from others. [...]