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adjective (pos=larger-than-life, -)
- Of greater size or magnitude than is naturally or normally the case.
- 1838, w:Charles_Dickens, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, ch. 30,
- :Miss Snevellicci's papa looked very big indeed"several sizes larger than life.
- 1849, w:Herman_Melville, Herman Melville, Redburn: His First Voyage, ch. 31,
- :At uniform intervals round the base of the pedestal, four naked figures in chains, somewhat larger than life, are seated in various attitudes of humiliation and despair.
- (context, idiom, usually of a person) Very imposing, renowned, or impressively influential.
- 1988, w:Joyce_Carol_Oates, Joyce Carol Oates, "Intellectual Seduction: Meeting with Gorbachev," New York Times, 3 Jan., p. SM16,
- :This is a person of surpassing integrity; a man of the utmost sincerity; somewhat larger than life, perhaps.
- 2007, Orville Schell, "http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/personoftheyear/article/0,28804,1690753_1695388_1695753,00.html Person of the Year Runners-up: Hu Jintao," Time, 31 Dec.,
- :Nor has he cultivated the kind of flamboyant style with which his country became well acquainted in leaders from Chiang Kai-shek to Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.
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