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

But Doll’s blindness is also a character flaw in another, more technical, sense: Amis tends to overdramatize it, and so, as a character in a novel, he’s pretty flawed.

From Slate • Oct. 5, 2014

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

From Voices from the Past by Bartlett, Paul Alexander