No matter how frenetically delivered, the dialogue and especially the monologues feel cumbersomely overstated, like messages carved in stone.
If his work has softened and broadened with time — a few of the later pictures in this otherwise sterling selection feel undercooked or overstated — its essence remains tough and firm.
Birbiglia is pretty clearly criticizing "SNL" in the film, at the very least for its head-scrambling effect on up-and-coming comedians, but, more likely, for what he feels is its overstated importance in the pantheon of American comedy.
MP Gladu also suggested so many formal state apologies might cheapen the practice, which might be a fair concern if Trudeau had made forty apologies so far but feels a little overstated when he's only made four in about three years.
I UNDERSTAND what Ed Lazear is saying here, but the point seems somewhat overstated:Why don't American workers feel that the labor market is on the mend?
Interviewees agreed that there was an issue with the soundness of the scientific literature, but they clearly believed that the problem was not overt fraud (which they felt is rare and overstated) but a relaxation of rigour, driven by pressure to be visible in a competitive climate.
In general, interviewees agreed that there was an issue with the soundness of the scientific literature, but they clearly believed that the problem was not overt fraud (which they felt is rare and overstated) but a relaxation of rigour, driven by pressure to be visible in a competitive climate.
"There are people who feel that the coming wave of machines are going to be making decisions for people in a way they don't understand, though I think that's a little overstated," he said.
Perhaps the description is a bit overstated: Artists aren't being hauled into court every time they include a recognizable face in their work, but the growing sense that one's likeness is a "property" that can be commercially exploited has led many artists to feel less secure in pursuing realistic figurative images.
A number of analysts at the C.I.A. and other agencies have privately complained over the past few months that they felt pressure from administration officials to write reports that they believe overstated evidence that Iraq had illegal weapons programs and terrorist links.
