overact
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Still, Freeman is the only performer here who doesn’t overact.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2023
“My reaction is not to overact but I didn’t like it,” Del Rio said.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
RuPaul’s Drag Race The contestants must overact in holiday movie parodies in this new episode.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2021
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.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2019
They can perversely ignore it, though they will cripple themselves in the process, will overact their part and come to grief.
From Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann
Soo overacts and injects emotion despite acknowledging, in a more recent video, that “most of the time” the witness did “not convey a lot of emotions.”
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2025
In support, Toni Collette overacts, deliberately and effectively, while David Thewlis makes each verision of the character he plays interesting.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2020
We did a self tape for “The Beach Bum” with Matthew McConaughey, and my dad overacts, doing an impression of Matthew McConaughey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2020
He is also someone who overthinks, overacts and overshares.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 8, 2015
He overacts the office of an interpreter," I cite again from Howell, "who doth enslave himself too strictly to words or phrases.
From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell by Charles Eliot Norton
He overacted, but these are old songs whose sentiments can use some help.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2021
“Maybe I overacted to dreaming — maybe I was dreaming about something else. She didn’t think it was funny.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2019
Or perhaps you will come to feel that you’ve overacted and yet still want to involve the school to prevent further issues.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2019
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.
From Washington Post ● May 19, 2016
He overacted the part, but it was convincing enough for the scriv accompanying me.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
"I replied, 'I can't cry'. I told her 'I'm not capable of overacting'."
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
Her overacting meets Ms. Gyllenhaal’s over-filmmaking like the Hindenburg crashing into the Titanic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
Meanwhile, Greenblatt’s playfully mischievous demeanor as Tina often reads as overacting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2024
My sister told me I was overacting and should just move my office into my bedroom or closet.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2023
Even Leeds’ Thespians on Demand, the famed English acting troupe known far and wide for their loud voices and shameless overacting, could not hold a candle to this family.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
