overact
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“My reaction is not to overact but I didn’t like it,” Del Rio said.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 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
Some of the performers in smaller roles are less artful than the cast’s standouts, and one or two overact.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2016
"You overact your part," said young Wharton, in constant apprehension of discovery; "your zeal is too intemperate."
From The Spy by Cooper, James Fenimore
She overacts, sings her way through conversations, puts on affected accents, responds to normal requests in a histrionic manner, and generally treats our home like a little Broadway theatre.
From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2021
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
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 Norton, Charles Eliot
He overacted, but these are old songs whose sentiments can use some help.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2021
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
“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.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2018
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
Peppery notes from Talia Shire and Jon Voight intermingle with athletic overacting by Shia LaBeouf and Dustin Hoffman.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 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
