How To Use Overplay In A Sentence
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She never overplays her role nor underplays it - in essence, she was the perfect choice for this role and makes a stunning cinematic debut.
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Their major claimed benefits may overplay the importance of sharing knowledge and expertise and underplay issues such as social conflict, cultural difference and opportunism.
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The union is in danger of overplaying its hand in the current dispute.
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Too many other bands either overplay their isolation or amplify their anger.
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The union is in danger of overplaying its hand in the current dispute.
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She has resisted all temptations to overdo and overplay, despite the openings that Jackie's addictions and infidelities have offered.
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His role is essential, as he's the counterpoint to the bookish and serious Ernesto, and it would be easy to overplay the oversexed Alberto.
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The Japanese diplomat was careful not to overplay his hand during the negotiations.
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I do not think we have ever, at any stage, downplayed the risk to children, but it is important that we do not overplay the risk to children.
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The cast, occasionally dominated by the presence of the house itself, never overplays.
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She is the thinking pop lover's solution to overplayed and overdone artists.
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I do not think we have ever, at any stage, downplayed the risk to children, but it is important that we do not overplay the risk to children.
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The actor overplayed the role of Hamlet.
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It both underplays and overplays the melodrama of the scene at once, capturing something real and raw in what might've been a stock bit of overemoting schlock.
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This is another inexplicable effort by an actor to overplay a slow, strange character and teach everybody lessons.
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The union is in danger of overplaying its hand in the current dispute.
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Although the audience wants to buy into elements of his contested position of affairs, it has a hard time doing so when the actor overplays his lines.
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The unions overplayed their hand in the end and failed to get the pay rise they wanted.
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In Britain, the police have been criticised for overplaying the risk of such an event taking place here.
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The actor overplayed the role of Hamlet.
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The reason, he suggested, was that news reports tend to overplay the importance of any particular piece of information.
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Initially overplaying Jordan to keep the ball from him, sometimes they allowed guard Joe Dumars to play him straight up, or run a double-team at him the minute he touched the ball, forcing him to pass to an ineffective teammate.
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O I think global warming is undoubtedly real and a serious problem, but I think it has been 'overplayed' by the press, politicians and some organisations.such as
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His role is essential, as he's the counterpoint to the bookish and serious Ernesto, and it would be easy to overplay the oversexed Alberto.
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While she overplays her final sequence, her performance as a whole works to the movie's favor.
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One thing that's magnified is the effectiveness of Shaquille, his incredible ability to overmatch and overplay and over-dominate the other centers.
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No one overplays their role, and provide journeyman performances.
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A sparse script and real sensitivity from the actors, none of whom overplay their role, only adds further to the film's power.
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I think the historical factor is overplayed, that it really doesn't mean much.
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And, thanks to some overplayed commercial, my earworm du jour is "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini."
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The rest of the cast either underplays their role or overplays it to the point of being far too cartoonish.
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In overplaying their presence, the artists have lost touch with the basic truth of birth, its essential mystery.
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His swearing has become a bit overplayed.
Times, Sunday Times
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She never overplays her role nor underplays it - in essence, she was the perfect choice for this role and makes a stunning cinematic debut.
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An actor has to be creative, but he can underplay or overplay his role, so a director has to control that.
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Should she spell it out to him, or would that fatally overplay her hand?
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The famous Pye recordings of Vaughan Williams ‘Greensleeves’ and Thomas Tallis fantasias are reproduced in stunning sound and they remain my particular favourite for these overplayed works.
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This cast and this production prove their superiority again here and serve the script well, neither overplaying the melodrama or underemphasizing the pain.
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The media has displayed utmost irresponsibility by overplaying the story.
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I think the historical factor is overplayed, that it really doesn't mean much.
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I have always said that the only times Democrats gain ground is when Republicans overplay their hand and their true agenda shows.
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** perhaps if i was old enough to remember clearly what the radio waves sounded like when this song was popular, i might feel differently. i imagine it was heavily overplayed, which is a horrible way to treat an 8 minute song.
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Uncertainty about the economy. Gold, like stocks and bonds, will probably continue to bounce around, so don't overplay your gold card.
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Some of you said we're overplaying the privacy concerns involved in trusting ISPs or managed services providers to filter malicious messages from email traffic.
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He plays the cymbalom with beautiful precision, his touch is so sure, fabulously melodic yet never overplaying.
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Because then we can go down that path and I can bring up examples of other people widely regarded as leaders of the party who do not hold official titles overplayed example: Rush Limbaugh.
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Having said all this, it is important not to overplay the Confucian card.
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People overplay the risks of cyberterrorism, but they underplay the risks of cybercrime.
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It died because the Democrats and their media groupies overplayed their hand, as usual, and so turned a real scandal into just another fake scandal for senatorial windbags to huff and puff over.
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The result is a compelling human interest drama that only overplays its hand in the heart-tugging overkill of the closing sequences.
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However, the importance of the ICJ judgement has been dramatically overplayed by international commentators.
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His swearing has become a bit overplayed.
Times, Sunday Times
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His role in the group's success has been overplayed.
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People overplay the risks of cyberterrorism, but they underplay the risks of cybercrime.
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With 83% of all viewing taking place on terrestrial channels, the threat of multi-channel TV, however, is often overplayed.
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While this may make the book sound light-hearted (and at times it is very witty) the references are always germane and are never overplayed, so that they open up debates to a broader audience without trivialising the issues.
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The issue of Alzheimer's is dealt with in a sensitive and delicate manner, which doesn't overplay the pity.
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The director of the Edinburgh Film Festival said the film was influential but its overall importance was overplayed in Scotland.
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The rest of the cast either underplays their role or overplays it to the point of being far too cartoonish.
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Why "Jephtha," Handel's last oratorio, isn't outrageously overplayed is one of those weird mysteries of life.
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The whole thing, he says, has been wildly overplayed.
Times, Sunday Times
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I think the historical factor is overplayed, that it really doesn't mean much.
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I haven't looked into the money side of things but I think they have overplayed the amount of work needed to be done.
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this looks bad. i for one am somewhat tired of this kind of humor, or at least the way it is presented aka the overplayed acting.
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The North American media are if possible overplaying the soap operatic performances of Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder, as they strew thumbtacks along the road to Baghdad.
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John Prendergast, human rights activist and co-founder of the Enough project, told Al Jazeera: "One should not overplay this idea of north versus south or Christian versus Muslim.
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We got a couple of things wrong today when we overplayed a bit but the fans were brilliant and didn't get on our backs.
The Sun
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Best of all, there is a solid cast of actors who rise to the occasion of the screenplay, never overplaying comic moments but clearly getting the absurdity of every turn.
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A vice-president has ‘moments when his nerves give and he overplays his role’.
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It is difficult to overplay the importance of this kind of relationship for a child like Paul.
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The setup is crudely overplayed, with projectile poop and verbal come-ons aimed at the reliably pungent Leslie Mann, who plays Mrs. Bateman and is the longest-suffering woman in so-called bromantic comedy mentioning her marriage to Judd Apatow, who popularized and problematized the dynamic, only belabors the point.
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So I think they've way overplayed this and overstretched this issue.
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Bulldog was just stupid and hammily overplayed.
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This cast and this production prove their superiority again here and serve the script well, neither overplaying the melodrama or underemphasizing the pain.
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He revels in his role as the big jerk, and overplays it to the point of caricature.
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STENGEL: Yes, I do think we have kind of overplayed the argument that his voters won't vote for her, her voters won't vote for him.
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I think she's overplaying the significance of his remarks.
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My only complaint was that there seemed to be a niggling hesitation in some performances and a tendency to overplay parts of the text.
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De Havilland made the point that bloggers are unaccountable, and suggested that the influence of blogging was being overplayed, mostly by bloggers themselves.
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It would be easy for an actor to mishandle any of these threads, to overplay key moments by slipping into self-indulgence.
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But some people have criticized the media for overplaying the story and thus feeding public panic.
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I think the historical factor is overplayed, that it really doesn't mean much.
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I don't see how to keep out the godforsaken artisanal soap goons and tie-dye artistes and smoked salmon entrepreneurs, but homegrown businesses that * don't* focus on the overplayed cedar-smoked-patchouli-and-organic-hairy-legs view of Seattle (talk about dated!) should certainly be featured in this space.
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The porno didn’t do anything imagination wouldn’t make happen though the ‘boy’ fixation was overplayed just sitting drinking rum from a bottle passed hand to hand shooting the breeze after a vindaloo it fitted naturally but there was no way we for all our addiction could be responsible for the breathy oohs and ahs exhaled by her shamateurism
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A Home Office spokesman said the British government would ‘absolutely not’ accept that it was guilty of overplaying the size of the problem in the UK.
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Earlier on Monday, Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister Aziz Pahad described as "overplayed" threats by Nigerians to retaliate against
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Ruth is a pretty funny lady, but her sass and verve seem to be overplayed and pretty much misused here.
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No longer did she need to exaggerate or overplay - she knew how to use the subtle expressions, the interplay of emotions in her face, to maximum effect.
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The chief problem with life-style, and the explanation of consumption upon which it rests, is that it overplays the importance of consumption and consumerism in people's lives.
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In fact this is a very romantic comic, and none of it's overplayed or plucks the heartstrings unnecessarily.
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The jazz soundtrack defines this oddity - often virtuosic and bewitching but slightly self-satisfied and overplayed.
The Sun
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So there you have it: two sucky go-nowhere songs, two overplayed ones now rendered unlistenable because of that, and a whole slew of good to great ones.
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ANAMORPH is also woefully subservient to too many overplayed stereotypes- the jaded cop, the personal investment in the case and subsequent suspicion, the bolshie polar-opposite New Partner figure painfully acted by Scott Speedman might I add, and the obligatory Dead Ex-Partner.
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We got a couple of things wrong today when we overplayed a bit but the fans were brilliant and didn't get on our backs.
The Sun
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The conclusion is unwarranted, and involves overplaying the disagreements and their importance while ignoring the basic unity of canonical and doctrinal decisions.
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It would be easy to overplay this role… to burlesque it in the direction of Sergeant Bilko.
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The whole thing, he says, has been wildly overplayed.
Times, Sunday Times
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O I think global warming is undoubtedly real and a serious problem, but I think it has been 'overplayed' by the press, politicians and some organisations.
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He never overplays or goes for the cheap laugh, and thus makes his eccentric character oddly sympathetic.
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That said, the rural-urban split should not be overplayed as the scale of pre-election intimidation doubtless served to distort the political process in the rural areas.
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I think just about everybody - Guardian, Rutten, Okrent and the Times - is overplaying this issue.
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The union is in danger of overplaying its hand in the current dispute.
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The band also played cohesively, embellishing but never overplaying their respective parts and always supporting the overall feel and purpose of each song.
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It's possible to overplay the importance of plotting.
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The youth of the Orangemen is overplayed sometimes because their talent trumps their inexperience.
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And without overplaying the feminist card, it's hard not to come to the conclusion that she suffers a bit from tabloid syndrome, that over-easy presentation of media women as bitches with sharp stilettos.
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This cast and this production prove their superiority again here and serve the script well, neither overplaying the melodrama or underemphasizing the pain.
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We both think the whole issue on Governor Dean's "outburst" is being overplayed (big surprise) by the media.
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