| 单词 | overact |
| 例句 | As for extra gestures, overacting—any trash, dirt, or spots—he can clean those up in time. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He overacted the part, but it was convincing enough for the scriv accompanying me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z For a second I thought she was going to run into my arms as if we were reunited lovers in some overacted Aturan tragedy. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In “Eat, Pray, Love,” Elizabeth Gilbert presented herself as a seeker of solace, whereas Ms. Chua eagerly overacts the role of wicked witch. Books of The Times: But Will It All Make Mommy Happy? 2011-01-19T19:28:18Z Is this perpetual guilt over his wife’s death—or another chance for Andrew Lincoln to overact? The Walking Dead Watch: The Governor 2.0 2013-02-11T13:00:47Z He doesn’t overdress, overact or contort his voice as the well-meaning parent with well-developed coping skills. Louie Anderson pays tribute to his late mom with TV role 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Q. Which military sitcom suffered from constant overacting? Style Invitational Week 1341: Portmanteautapping E to R 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Everyone is having so much fun that the show is slowly getting a little longer every night as the cast overacts deliciously. Chita Rivera, almost 80, can't sit still 2012-11-23T13:54:13Z Wobbly cameras, shots through high fences, a slight tendency to overacting … irrespective of subject, there's a very early 1990s feel to this. SA2010 Match of the Day Live 2010-06-23T08:21:00Z In a recent episode of his SiriusXM radio show "The Howard Stern Show," Stern discussed recent developments within the trial — which has been livestreamed since April 11 — before accusing Depp of "overacting" throughout his testimony. Howard Stern accuses Johnny Depp of being a “narcissist” and “overacting” during testimony 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z In the theater, there is overacting, which is common and painful to watch. Review: ‘On the Twentieth Century,’ With Kristin Chenoweth, Opens on Broadway 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z His overacting of lyrics reached a histrionic peak in an excruciating “Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out to Dry.” Music Review: Craig Pomranz at the Metropolitan Room 2012-03-03T00:54:30Z Perhaps overacting is the wrong word, with its connotations of sloppiness and grandeur run amok. How Marian Seldes Took the Stage 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z There's a bit too much overacting at times, but I'm invested now. Carol Decker's favourite TV 2013-03-18T12:00:00Z Ms. Sachs’s sometimes overly didactic language fails them here, and they also succumb to bouts of overacting. Theater Review: Joyce Hokin Sachs?s ?Eternal Equinox? at 59E59 Theaters 2012-03-08T21:44:38Z It's an extraordinary story, but the pitfalls for an actor are potentially disastrous – overacting, condescension, mimicry that reduces Grandin to a set of symptoms. Claire Danes's secret diary 2011-04-01T23:03:12Z “They overact these people, they really overact,” Ms. Swinton said of powerful leaders. Tilda Swinton's Many Sets of False Teeth 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Present-day Graham dancers are often taken to task for overacting, or histrionics or otherwise obscuring the integrity of their material. Dance Review: Martha Graham Dance Company at the Joyce 2012-03-19T22:17:11Z Mitchell overacts in the heartbreak-drenched opener but then hits her stride, and both actors are fine singers. Review | An unvarnished view of reality in two lively shows: Round House’s ‘We’re Gonna Die’ and Constellation’s ‘The Last Five Years’ 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z Instead, he tries to build tension with the skeptical or hostile interrogation of the parents by two cops: Dawson and the egregiously overacting Scott Speedman. Sex and Death at Cannes 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z This allows director Amalric to allow his star -- himself -- to overact his way through the movie, in contrast to the natural performances by his curvaceous troupers. Early Cannes films are the polar opposite 2010-05-14T05:26:00Z And, above all, what percentage of them will pass up the chance for some really top-flight, weapons-grade overacting? “Suicide Squad” Reviewed 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z “The Other Woman” is absorbing — at times moving — but also frustrating, relying as it does on slackly staged, overacted, two-person scenes punctuated by uninspired New York montages. | 'The Other Woman': A Home Wrecker Faces Many Challenges, Too 2011-02-03T23:33:40Z “Maybe I overacted to dreaming — maybe I was dreaming about something else. She didn’t think it was funny.” Lessons From Baryshnikov on Robbins (Less Is More) 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z I utterly forgot that Stevens was English while watching the film; his physical and verbal language are completely natural, with none of the overacting or ostentatiously flattened vowels that so often accompany Brit-doing-Yank. “The Guest”: “Downton Abbey” heartthrob wreaks havoc on America 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z I guess my specialist subject would be overacting and how to get away with it. Watch television with Michelle Gomez 2012-08-10T23:05:11Z “It was a costume piece, French Victorian, with people overacting like crazy,” Lansbury recalls. Angela Lansbury coming to National Theatre next spring De Niro never overacts like Pacino, but his downward slide has been no less excruciating to witness. Robert De Niro: he's calling time on interviews but what about his career? 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Kline does not overact; it’s his character who does, and it’s important to recognize the distinction. Review: Kevin Kline Serves Ham in Soignée Silk in ‘Present Laughter’ 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z The script is a little clunky but somehow that and the overacting all adds to the magic. Florence Welch Thrives on Horror. And She Still Wants to Smell You. 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z In the opening minutes of the production, the subjects are often nervous, overacting. Alex Majoli’s “SKĒNĒ”: The World as a Photojournalist’s Stage 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Like a bewildered baby, Ms. Shartzer plays the spasmodically destructive, slowly decomposing horror in Patrick’s bathtub with unnerving sweetness, resisting every opportunity to overact. | 'Make-Out With Violence': A Teenage Zombie Crush 2010-08-27T01:47:00Z The performers give it their all, but their animation is overacting — amateurish, with a comedy that is only sometimes intentional — and it keeps spoiling the more kinetically convincing sections of choreography. Review: ‘The Mantises Are Flipping W.3,’ a World of Its Own at Danspace Project 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z We guffaw when the conductor Ben Foster spars with a Dalek, who threatens to exterminate him for overacting. Prom 2: Doctor Who Prom – review 2013-07-14T14:47:22Z The film suggests Moose is on the autism spectrum, but Travolta overacts at every opportunity, magnifying every emotion and gesture, such as Moose's penchant to rock back and forth. Fred Durst's "The Fanatic": Even Travolta's overacting can't make this limp thriller any fun 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z O'Neill invites overacting, but he needs sacrificial immersion. 'Anna Christie' habors but a spark of greatness 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z The thrill of overacting, the rush of sinking one's teeth into a predictable archetype! The Wolfman: Del Toro and Hopkins sink their teeth into each other 2010-07-13T12:08:00Z Who cares if there's way too much lightening and overacting? Review: 'Jekyll & Hyde' overwrought, in a good way 2013-04-18T23:35:09Z There is abundant blood, feverish overacting, and an atmosphere of hysterical Victorian Americana. Movie Review: ?The Raven,? With John Cusack, Directed by James McTeigue 2012-04-26T23:19:38Z But oftentimes overacting is just a style choice or a matter of artistic temperament. The overacting hall of fame 2011-09-23T23:30:00Z Not for him is overacting as Jesse, who pines for his ex-wife and struggles for grounding in this backwater town. Selleck in 'Blue Bloods' and a 'Jesse Stone' film 2012-05-10T13:44:23Z In the most celebrated episode of the series, “Over the River and Through the Woods,” Mr. Newhart puts on a clinic in how not to overact in a drunk scene. Bob Newhart, Master of the One-Sided Conversation 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Now, I am not talking about Greek tragedy or overacting, but investing energy in exploring and inhabiting the characters’ deepest needs and desires. Theater Talkback: To Go Solo, or Not? 2010-09-23T16:35:00Z "I'll play you some clips from the Johnny Depp trial. If he isn't acting — I mean, he's so overacting because he's writing his own material as he goes along," Stern added. Howard Stern accuses Johnny Depp of being a “narcissist” and “overacting” during testimony 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z And through it all, there was shining simplicity, nothing embellished or hammed-up or overacted. The colorful restraint of the Mark Morris Dance Group 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z They actually acted — not overacted — and were some of the kindest and most patient performers I've ever worked with. The J.J. Abrams Interview: Inside Super 8 2011-06-06T10:25:00Z There’s quite a bit of villainous overacting in rough-and-tumble Chicago. Summer Shakespeare: A critic's take on the secret to theatrical success 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z That’s because Stallone, playing a fighter with clear connections to Rocky Balboa — insert meat locker beef-punch scene here — gives an unexpectedly sensitive, low-key performance that is in stark contrast to De Niro’s abrasive overacting. ‘Grudge Match’: You’ve probably already seen it 2013-12-24T22:12:22Z Bardem must have been instructed to go big, Hannibal Lecter big, and for most of the film he persuades that overacting is the only kind of acting. Skyfall: Bond and Bardem Go Boom 2012-11-09T13:00:22Z Emotions are fraying in everyday life; everyone is overreacting and overacting. The Brilliance and the Blahs of City Ballet. (And Then There’s Solange.) 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z “Some of it is overacted, when they’re normally more subtle. But I want to know what happens next and the main thing is it’s got subtitles.” Can Netflix Take Turkey’s TV Dramas to the World? 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z He’s fine now and quietly overacting at home.” David Spade: This is why Eddie Murphy hated me, wouldn’t come back to “Saturday Night Live” 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Yet the piece still caused chills — such as the moment when Greer Grimsley’s Todd, though prone to overacting, realized with a cry that he had killed his own wife. When musicals become operas 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z I’m sure that when the reviews come out some people will say I overacted. Jane Fonda: “I never was a hippie!” 2012-06-09T22:00:00Z Think of it as "August: Osage County" without the overacting. Oscars 2015: Lead actress field thin? Think again 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z First, although it might seem hard to believe, I don't intend the word "overacting" as an automatic pejorative. The overacting hall of fame 2011-09-23T23:30:00Z The oxygen for early movies was guileless intensity and what looks to us like broad overacting. Classic antics of ‘Laugh’ an uphill climb in Beth Henley’s latest 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z That problem encourages a certain degree of overacting, especially from Hawke, as if he were trying to make himself visible from a distance. Review: ‘Waiting for Godot’ in the Bleakest Zoom Room Ever 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Chris Pratt says “the worst thing you can do is overact,” which is why he’s resolved to only make three faces in “Jurassic World.” Chris Pratt only makes 3 faces in all of “Jurassic World” 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Believing there’s no sin in overacting, with occasional lapses into lucidity quickly replaced by drunken rage, the star gives a bold performance: acutely observed and manic to the max. REVIEW: Can Filth Live Down to Its Title? 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Film buffs recognize overacting in a flash, and won’t put up with it. Lang Lang: The Pianist Who Plays Too Muchly 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z And while I suppose we should be grateful that no one is overacting here, “Fire” might benefit from a little more scenery chewing. Theater Review: David Rabe?s ?Early History of Fire,? at the Acorn Theater 2012-05-01T02:00:00Z She’s one of the few operatic actors I know who doesn’t overact. Jamie Barton, Opera’s Nose-Studded Rock Star, Returns to the Met 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Almost all the charm of the real story is lost through the contrivances and overacting. Starbuck – review 2012-11-22T19:59:01Z There is some wild overacting from the male leads, and the elegance of the film's premise is obliterated by its self-admiring macho violence. Trance – review 2013-03-28T15:30:02Z This may have been a bit of overacting. Music Review: ‘Maria Stuarda’ at the Metropolitan, With Joyce DiDonato 2013-01-02T00:03:57Z Fleeing Mideast Dictator’s Unscheduled Stop The premise had promise, but “Baghdad, Texas,” a clumsy comedy directed by David H. Hickey, quickly disappoints with an inconsistent tone and painful overacting. | 'Baghdad, Texas': Fleeing Mideast Dictator?s Unscheduled Stop 2010-08-27T01:22:00Z The song gives you license to overact, especially if you don't have a voice half as supple and precise as Perry's and you need to compensate with sheer gusto. Don't Stop Believin': the power ballad that refused to die 2010-12-16T22:14:01Z I worried that the singers might overact in bringing these works to life for an audience mostly unable to follow the words. Music Review: ‘Venezia, From the Streets to the Palaces,’ at Miller Theater 2012-09-13T22:25:32Z Have you seen this horrendous, fantastic, overacted, drawn-out death sequence, with a full minute passing between bullet impact and the final keeling over? What are the worst movie deaths scenes of all time? 2012-10-08T16:52:21Z The night I saw it, not all of that singing was precisely on key, and the child nearest me overacted wretchedly. ‘Into the Woods’ Review: Some Enchanted Evening 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z “What would it look like if you overacted the whole thing?” he said. An Asian-American Reimagining of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado” 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Andrew Lincoln had another subtly powerful performance, continuing to make up for his overacting, and the phone call device was an interesting construction allowing him some closure after the death of his wife. The Walking Dead Watch: Collision Course 2012-11-19T15:40:17Z Preening, flexing his muscles and hoisting his nose in the air, he is an Olivier of overacting. Stephen Sondheim, experimenter. Listen to 'Pacific Overtures' and 'Forum' 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z To get away with pretending that less is more, strenuous overacting is required. Review: ‘The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ Ups the Ante 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z For it ought, in theory, to be impossible to overact while playing the role. Nicolas Cage as The Joker could be a masterstroke – or a major mistake 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Some of the performers in smaller roles are less artful than the cast’s standouts, and one or two overact. NextStop Theatre’s ‘Middletown’ ponders the potentially monumental 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z They can reveal if the people caught in action are hiding from the camera or posing for it, and if they are speaking naturally or being loud and overacting. Staged videos fuel religious hate and misogyny in India 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z Still, Freeman is the only performer here who doesn’t overact. Review | ‘A Good Person,’ a terrible movie 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z To call it overacting is an insult to acting. Review | ‘Infinity Pool’? More like dead-on-arrival pool. 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z “That was who he was, a funny person, someone who didn’t laugh at his own jokes, and didn’t overact.” Buster Keaton films come to Paramount Theatre’s Silent Movie Mondays 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z “My reaction is not to overact but I didn’t like it,” Del Rio said. Jack Del Rio focusing on football, not politics, months after Jan. 6 comments 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z While we weren’t making an actual game, and I’m no professional actor, I did have attempt to rein in my desire to overact, thinking I needed big bombastic movements for animators to play with. This casting director wants to elevate the art of acting for video games 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z No need to project, let alone overact, here; I heard him as clearly as if he were sitting next to me. The Times’s Theater Critic Reviews Stratford’s New Theater 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z And so that is why in the theater, the actors tend to be very exaggerated or overact. He made one of the year's most acclaimed movies. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi talks about 'Drive My Car' 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z “If he thought an extra was overacting, he would try to change it,” Stevens said. Buster Keaton films come to Paramount Theatre’s Silent Movie Mondays 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z He overacted, but these are old songs whose sentiments can use some help. Review: After cancellations in Europe, tenor Jonas Kaufmann brings his 'poison' to the Broad Stage 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z And if he never seems out of his depth, it may just be that he doesn’t overact; he doesn’t get too far out over his center of gravity. The case for John Stamos, one of TV's most underrated actors 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Arguably, the main draw of this movie is Cage at his most Cage: manic, wild, overacting. Prisoners of the Ghostland is destined to be the next Nic Cage cult movie 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z That may cause audiences not to really believe in the performances, but in film, because this acting happens in front of the camera, you don’t have to overact. He made one of the year's most acclaimed movies. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi talks about 'Drive My Car' 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z RuPaul’s Drag Race The contestants must overact in holiday movie parodies in this new episode. What's on TV Friday: 'Magnum P.I.' on CBS; 'Painting With John' 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z She seems to have been incapable of overacting in any case. For Diana Rigg, playing the smartest person in the room was second nature 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z We did a self tape for “The Beach Bum” with Matthew McConaughey, and my dad overacts, doing an impression of Matthew McConaughey. Maude Apatow knows you think she's a product of nepotism, and she wants to prove herself 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z She remembers turning up at castings as recently as five years ago, recording self-tapes, running lines with her mother, who could be counted on to overact. Rebecca Ferguson: ‘Not being recognised suits me’ 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z Displaying writing barely apt for an outdated sitcom, ludicrously trite dialogue, prosaic execution and overacting galore, this pseudo-romantic all-nighter unsuccessfully attempts to wax poetic in regards to second chances, Catholic guilt and personal reinvention. Reviews: Jim Gaffigan doubles up in ‘Being Frank’; Jack Quaid is ‘Plus One’; and more 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Fans, players and former soccer stars criticized Neymar for his overacting on the pitch during last year’s World Cup in Russia , including excessive rolling after being fouled. Defensive PSG goes on offensive over Neymar criticism 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z DY: It’s usually overacting, because overacting is the easiest acting you can do. How Weta Digital created the steampunk world of Mortal Engines 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z What follows is a carefully staged, low-budget, metafictional exercise in minimal effort, cheery hubris and textbook overacting. Why Megan Amram's devious, totally by-the-rules campaign to win a best actress Emmy could work 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z On the other hand, Mr. Lithgow is so naturally funny that he gets his laughs anyway, and it’s not hard to forgive a fair amount of overacting when the results are so pleasurable. ‘John Lithgow: Stories by Heart’ Review: Jumping Off the Page 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Lame characterization, painful overacting and clunky lines would happen, but it wouldn’t cause any reactions beyond giggles and eye rolls. Charlie Sheen thriller '9/11' exploits its namesake tragedy 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Dad of Light is also plagued by a overacting, a common trait in these kinds of dramas. Netflix’s new Final Fantasy show is a heartwarming look at parenting through the lens of games 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z That’s one thing I needed to tone down with the animators, because animators love to overact. How Weta Digital created the steampunk world of Mortal Engines 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z With Romano providing steady, rocklike ballast to Nanjiani’s own deadpan wit, Hunter often seems in danger of stealing the movie in a fit of overacting. Review | In ‘The Big Sick,’ romantic idealism strikes a pleasant balance with real-life candor 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Director Robbie Bryan and screenwriter Robert T. Roe’s “The Eyes” is a talky, set-bound drama masquerading as a suspense picture, and nearly the entire movie consists of overwritten, overacted, visually inert confrontations and monologues. 'The Eyes' confines characters and silly twists into one-room drama 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z She said she was able to “overact with my body.” ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ star Sandra Oh on animated film ‘Window Horses’ at Santa Barbara Film Festival 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z You start to see how the directors strained to create a moment of maximum trauma, how the death scenes are overacted, how the massacre operates like the mechanical gnashings of a meat-processing plant. I have found a new way to watch TV, and it changes everything 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z But the transformation is so sudden — and, frankly, badly overacted by Guthrie, who seems to have forgotten that he’s playing a single human being, not two — that the tragedy rings hollow. ‘Sunset Song’: Pretty as a picture, unmoving as a story 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z The voice actors shamelessly overact, delivering lines in grating shrieks. A film nobody will enjoy, 'Bling' borrows heavily from others 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Kendrick, usually a cool cucumber, is wildly overacting, though the nutty role essentially requires it. Stop and think before you commit to 'Mr. Right' 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Also on Dec. 21, Murray sent a message to senior policy adviser Karen McPhee with the subject line, “Tell me if I was overacting to this,” referring to a radio report that mentions him. Emails a window into state’s Flint crisis-management efforts 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z It is startling how clunky Friends looks now, a creaky old sitcom with a too-loud laughter track and copious overacting. 90s Television was bad. What were we thinking? | Emma Brockes 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z I prefer subtlety in action as opposed to big cartoonish overacting. Kirsten Lepore brings a real third dimension to 'Adventure Time' 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z “There’s people saying, ‘Oh, it’s a bad situation,’ and ‘You shouldn’t be able to force his hand,’ ‘You’re overacting.’ Mizzou Tigers score welcome win after week of racial tension and resignations 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Reporters who chide coaches for never saying anything interesting should not overact when a coach fills up their notebooks. Clemson Coach Dabo Swinney's criticism of Notre Dame is misplaced 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Though Wisconsin’s attorney general, Brad Schimel is sympathetic to the Menominee and reluctant to overact, he is also charged with enforcing Wisconsin’s law. Why American Indian Tribes Are Getting Into the Pot Business 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Contrast this with the antics of male players: the dives and overacting, coupled with poor sportsmanship — Zinedine Zidane’s head butt of an Italian player in the 2006 World Cup final being just one example. Letters to the Editor 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z Technology tends to “overact” our brains, draining us of unfettered, daydreaming-type creativity, he says. Here's How to Battle Your Smartphone Addiction 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z There’s also a lot of overacting in this world, except for Gooding and Sharon Leal, who plays Samuel’s wife; in fact, the whole movie is heavily overdramatized. A well-meant if overwrought tale of slavery 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Kevin Costner is one of those actors, like Harrison Ford or Keanu Reeves, who often gets accused of being “wooden” because he refuses to overact or be bigger than the scene. Review: Kevin Costner Shines In 'McFarland, USA' 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z As a result, the entire film is overacted, overwritten, and overplayed to the point of insult. Review: Robert Downey Jr.'s 'The Judge' Is Objection-able, Contempt-able 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Every line is drenched in cliché, every scene is laboriously overacted, and even the strikingly good looks of the actors can't do much to salvage this alpine train wreck. Which is the most memorable tech ad of the past decade? 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Despite my the occasional grief I give Andrew Lincoln for really one scene of blatant overacting, he’s a fine actor, and Rick is the backbone of the group. The Walking Dead Rises From the Grave Sunday 2013-10-11T11:05:23Z It was not beyond a reasonable doubt that Zimmerman was overacting in self-defense. Joe Klein: Despite Trayvon's Death, Our Biracial Era Is Ending 2013-07-18T13:35:27Z Students must convey the emotion and meaning of a poem without overacting. Montgomery sophomore wins $10,000 for placing 2nd in national poetry recitation contest 2013-05-01T22:47:54Z Hands on hips, lipstick fresh, she looks almost too of her time, like someone overacting in a Channel 5 biopic. Highlights of the year: my personal 2012 "best of" list 2012-12-30T00:07:04Z “This is an incident where it seemed the photographer was doing his job taking photographs, and the police overacted and attempted to intimidate him and block him, leading to his arrest,” Mr. Freeman said. Robert Stolarik, Times Photographer, Is Arrested While On Assignment in the Bronx 2012-08-06T01:54:07Z He began, with a slightly overacted air of carelessness, to roll a cigarette. Amusement Only 2011-12-04T03:00:06.637Z On the other hand, Kathy Bates is a great actress, but she has no business being nominated for Harry's Law, a show which only permits overacting. Emmy Noms: Big Day for Mad Men, Thrones, Lights 2011-07-14T16:54:40Z Do you imagine, silly child, that your overacted farce of wifely devotion blinds me as it does the fools you have called together to-night to witness this pretty display of domestic felicity? Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z “Should the market overact and sell off due to the news of a less stringent covenant package, we would consider going long the bonds.” NRG Debt Refinancing a Boon for Equity Buyers: Corporate Finance 2011-05-09T04:34:17Z In the film, an eye-patched Hopper overacts his head off while chain-smoking, swigging Jack Daniels, and zooming around on a jet ski in some kind of filthy, post-apocalyptic pirate outfit. Audacious New Concept Turns Oil Rigs Into Luxury Homes 2011-04-12T21:12:40Z Although he somewhat overacted the part, he made a great success. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z Standish was sufficiently a man of the world to see that he had overacted his part, and had not made a favourable impression. The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z She was overacting her part considerably and, what was much worse, involuntarily had dropped now and then into her own dear self. The Man Without a Memory 2011-03-09T03:00:45.963Z The sketch that featured in the Victoria Wood show As Seen On TV in the 1980s featured wobbly sets, overacting and absurd plots. AUDIO: Acorn Antiques TV crew flummoxed 2011-02-13T15:33:34Z Of necessity, then, it is an error of judgment for a stage-manager to allow the part of Lady Macbeth to be overacted. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z "When you are over there, you realize it is a British state — the inhabitants almost overact their Britishness." Falklands Oil Reopens Old Wounds 2010-03-15T11:45:00Z You are overacting, which always spoils the effect. Black Diamonds Subordinate characters on the stage lost their heads and either forgot to act or overacted. The Destroying Angel He had overacted his part, and had grossly mistaken the character of the brave young girl, whom he had so basely insulted. Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion This scene is often overacted on the stage. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z He loved to exaggerate, to act and overact the momentary part, to exercise his lungs and muscles, and to speak and laugh with his whole body. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) They exclaimed against Terrorism as if they had been the heroes that overthrew it, and rendered themselves ridiculous by fantastically overacting moderation. The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 It always is and always will be the same in small provincial theatres, the women are always pretentious, artificial, and overact outrageously…. Letters from my Windmill The foolish king quite overacted his part, calling her "his great aunt, his all, his best beloved." Henry IV, Makers of History We may be permitted to think that he has rather overacted his part. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 The friends so overacted their part, that Jane immediately saw through the plot. Madame Roland, Makers of History Ah! the speaking in the theatre is all overacted. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 But it is no such marvellous feat to exhibit the feats of so dull a beast; though, for that matter too, a bear may be overacted. The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 Then I gave myself infinite credit for the pertinacity of my silence, and for the manner in which I had put on an appearance of somnolency without overacting the part. The Fixed Period Her old woman’s sense told her that he was acting a part, and that he was overacting it. Children of the Desert The boy somewhat overacted respectful acquiescence, retired through the curtains, and reappeared again with tea and thin bread and butter. Marge Askinforit She broke down in the middle of this aspiring ditty, and then personated a Jew old clo' man, a woman selling "ornaments for your firestoves," and various other characters, all of which she overacted considerably. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis "I'm afraid," she said, as the car rolled down the drive, "that like most men you're rather prone to overact." Mufti Maurice could not help wondering why his father looked so thoroughly vexed, and why his grandmother made such an effort to conceal her displeasure by an assumption of overacted gratification. Fairy Fingers A Novel But they overacted the part so badly that in many cases they succeeded only in disgusting the Commissioners. Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle But she never overacted her part, she never underlined anything. Bella Donna A Novel He came very near discovering himself, however, by overacting his part. King Alfred of England Makers of History I do not like these fleering Dutchmen, they overact their kindness. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 His own discomfort was acute, and he overacted, as a man will who has unwittingly surprised a State secret and wishes to assure everyone of his obtuseness. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales If there was a suspicion—a shade—of overacting, the twilight concealed it. Hocken and Hunken Was he in truth the frail old man he had pretended to be, or had he overacted his part, and was he no minstrel, but an enemy in disguise? Stories of the Border Marches For an overacted austerity is not the right way to win others out of a too rollicking levity. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England We are reminded of Partridge, and his admiration of the overacting king. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Generally the fault of the performance was, strange to say for that theater, overacting, want of repose, point, and finish. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections But it is no such marvelous feat to exhibit the feats of so dull a beast; though, for that matter, too, a bear may be overacted. The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 My friend was apt to overact his part. The Autobiography of a Quack and the Case of George Dedlow She "overacted," as youth is apt to do. The Conflict Her master, you must say, is ill; you must let her in, with an assured but rather serious countenance—no smiles, no overacting, and I promise you success! Merry Men We hindered and repressed a great deal of cruelty, and congratulated ourselves on doing a vast deal of good, till, as often happens, my zeal overacted. Uncle Tom's Cabin It struck Mr. Larkin that his gallant friend was a little overacting, and showing perhaps less interest in the discovery than was strictly natural. Wylder's Hand "You overact your part," said young Wharton, in constant apprehension of discovery; "your zeal is too intemperate." The Spy Then, getting up, she shook out her dress, overacting her assumed character of a harsh, avaricious girl. The Dream Inwardly she added: "He overacts the part dreadfully." Chip, of the Flying U But the kiss was bestowed with an earnestness which so much overacted the part of the fair patroness, that Catharine, concluding the Duchess had lost her senses, screamed aloud. The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day He overacts his parts, and even Shakespeare will tell you how foolish a proceeding that is. My Strangest Case He says she overacted her part; that she 'tore a passion to tatters,' and all that. A Romance of the Republic However, to counterbalance this, and to prevent the post-pituitary from overacting, the breasts secrete a hormone with an action like that of placenta, but not so strong, which tends to inhibit the ovary. The Glands Regulating Personality Most potent Lord, I do, and wonder at the Compliment,—and yet I am not jealous—I have so overacted the complaisant Husband, that I shall never fall into the other Extreme again. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III I cannot, and do not trust him—he somewhat overacts his part. Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Do you imagine I did not know the reason of your overacting all that friendship for Mr Blifil yesterday? History of Tom Jones, a Foundling They can perversely ignore it, though they will cripple themselves in the process, will overact their part and come to grief. Public Opinion She chattered and laughed and gesticulated, but on this occasion she was overacting. Bat Wing The effusiveness was irritating, and the overacted kittenishness of the girl made her sick at heart, although she betrayed no sign of her feeling. The Voice on the Wire Her master, you must say, is ill; you must let her in, with an assured but rather serious countenance—no smiles, no overacting, and I promise you success! Short Stories for English Courses The only thing he discussed with any detail was the actor Gern, who was playing in Zettel, and who he considered was overacting his part. My Life — Volume 1 So it would have seemed to a less suspicious observer; but I thought that I could detect the overacting of pretence. The Allen House The parts he acts I am sure are quite overacted and depraved. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies A little overacting his part, he apologized nonchalantly for his lateness. The Longest Journey Smelling the gunpowder from a gun which had been discharged, he went on one side to get out of the wind of the piece, trembling in a most artistic manner, but quite overacting his part. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 I think that I must have been rather overacting my delight, and that she detected a hollow ring in my congratulations, for I saw her eyebrows rise a little, and she glanced at me curiously. The Sign of the Four Her master, you must say, is ill; you must let her in, with an assured but rather serious countenance; no smiles, no overacting, and I promise you success! Stories by English Authors: Germany (Selected by Scribners) He overacts the office of an interpreter," I cite again from Howell, "who doth enslave himself too strictly to words or phrases. Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell "The idea was good, but the young person who was playing the part of Mrs. Wilson—overacted." When a Man Marries "Is it possible," he asked, with an overacted assumption of surprise, "that you think I am in earnest?" I Say No Too essentially honest to practice deception of any kind cleverly, Linley had overacted the part of a man whose mind was entirely at ease. The Evil Genius She tossed her head, and let the check lie on the table, with an overacted appearance of caring very little whether she took it or not. The New Magdalen She a little overstrained the tone of humility in which she spoke those words—a little overacted the look of apprehension which accompanied them. No Name Tommy shook his head with a deep and somewhat overacted melancholy. Secret Adversary |
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