overdramatize
Example Sentences
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The director, Diego Ongaro, a French filmmaker who lives and works in New England, doesn’t overdramatize Merc’s situation, or tether him to the machinery of a plot.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2022
“It is possible to get rid of it, so I don’t think we have to overdramatize what is happening.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 17, 2022
Don’t overdramatize anything or fall all over yourself apologizing.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2020
Hong had a tendency to overdramatize the text, but she sang it with exacting surety, while Kopatchinskaja proved entirely in her element, finding the unique Kafka-esque space between reality and thought.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2018
Twenty-six hands must tell their story but not overdramatize.
From Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett
