"stoop to hyperbole"

[Wilson Gray]

It seems to me that it ought to be, e.g. "... rising to [the level of]
eloquence and [falling] to [the level of] hyperbole," simply for
reasons of stylistic parallelism.

-Wilson Gray

On 10/17/05, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>  From another list, out of:
> >       The Washington Times
> >        10/16
> >
> >       Germany's Blitzkrieg, England's worst hours
> >       Published October 16, 2005
> >
> >       THE LONGEST NIGHT: THE BOMBING OF LONDON ON MAY 10, 1941
> >           By Gavin Mortimer
> >           Berkley Caliber, $24.96, 356 pages
> >           REVIEWED BY PHILIP KOPPER
> >...
> >           As for the book's nuts and bolts, Mr. Mortimer's writing
> > is competent
> >       but uneven, sometimes rising to eloquence and stooping to hyperbole.
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> Joel
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-Wilson Gray