overdramatize

Example Sentences

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“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

“Not to overdramatize, but it feels dangerous,” she said.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2019

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

A lot of people probably expected something stylized and grandiose, in keeping with some of Scorsese’s later movies, but the restraint, the refusal to overdramatize, feels like a return to the elemental.

From Slate • Jan. 4, 2017

Twenty-six hands must tell their story but not overdramatize.

From Voices from the Past by Bartlett, Paul Alexander