| The acting can be overemphatic and the blocking a bit staid, but the pacing is just right. |
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| Pevear thought that he had solved the problem by taking out some of Tolstoy's more repetitive or overemphatic passages. |
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| Upton's stolid expressions seem immune to the director's overemphatic indications and keep a measure of spontaneity. |
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| Generally, he knows it's about to happen before the patient does: the downward glance repeated, the prepared questions beginning to falter, the overemphatic thanks during the retreat to the door. |
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| There is a lot wrong with Sally Potter's coming-of-age drama Ginger and Rosa, including an overemphatic script, a galumphing sincerity and some dodgy accents. |
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| Secondly, in reaching for a strong conclusion, I was overemphatic. |
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| To Elizabeth Bishop, this poem felt overemphatic, overlong, and too vernacular. |
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| But much of the public's attention and emotions have already been captured and squandered by overemphatic predictions. |
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| The point may be overemphatic, but it is nevertheless well made. |
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| But in the symphonies which framed the evening, Haydn's Surprise and Mendelssohn's Reformation, Manze's overemphatic body-language distracted from the quality of music-making. |
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| One nevertheless wonders whether Griffel's thesis is not overemphatic. |
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