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
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
Asked if journalists overdramatize the meaning of their workplaces, his voice turns grave: “No. We do not.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2015
“If You Don’t, I Will” is a dour, acutely observed comedy about marital boredom that doesn’t glamorize or overdramatize the characters’ angst.
From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2014
Twenty-six hands must tell their story but not overdramatize.
From Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett
