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
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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 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
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
My friend was apt to overact his part.
From The Autobiography of a Quack and the Case of George Dedlow by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
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
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.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2019
He is also someone who overthinks, overacts and overshares.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 8, 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
I cannot, and do not trust him—he somewhat overacts his part.
From Waverley Novels — Volume 12 by Sir Walter Scott
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
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
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.
From The Verge ● Aug. 20, 2014
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
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
