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 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
"You overact your part," said young Wharton, in constant apprehension of discovery; "your zeal is too intemperate."
From The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper
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
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 his parts, and even Shakespeare will tell you how foolish a proceeding that is.
From My Strangest Case by Guy Boothby
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
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
"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
“Fiddler” can sometimes occasion a flood of overacting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025
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
