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
No need to project, let alone overact, here; I heard him as clearly as if he were sitting next to me.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2022
And so that is why in the theater, the actors tend to be very exaggerated or overact.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2021
My friend was apt to overact his part.
From The Autobiography of a Quack and the Case of George Dedlow by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)
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
De Niro never overacts like Pacino, but his downward slide has been no less excruciating to witness.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 23, 2015
Regarding the cast, Puig says that Ray Liotta "overacts" in his role as Ryan's stern preacher father and Ashley Judd "dully plays" his mother, while the narration is "heavy-handed" and "clunky."
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2014
Certes, if Mounchensey had more knowledge of the world he would distrust him," said Sir Francis, "because in my opinion Buckingham overacts his part, and shows him too much attention.
From The Star-Chamber, Volume 2 An Historical Romance by Ainsworth, William Harrison
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
For a second I thought she was going to run into my arms as if we were reunited lovers in some overacted Aturan tragedy.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Her overacting meets Ms. Gyllenhaal’s over-filmmaking like the Hindenburg crashing into the Titanic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
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.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2023
When they’re role-playing, sometimes they’re really good at it and sometimes they’re purposefully overacting.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2023
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
