Sentence examples for operatic overkill from inspiring English sources

It comes across as operatic overkill.

With the English, one would have to explain, I think, why the kind of operatic overkill of the Bacon-Freud-Formaldehyde art line can't work.

Working wonders within the compact, unusually high-walled Donmar space, Mr. Ashford creates a vivid sense of community without attempting the operatic overkill that marred London's last "Streetcar," in which a firm-jawed Glenn Close looked as if she could thump Iain Glen's fine-boned Stanley for keeps.

He was correct to be proud of what he had achieved: an imposing operatic spectacle that avoids Meyerbeer's bloated heroics and Massenet's often fussy decorations, not to mention the grand-opera overkill that smothers Wagner's "Rienzi".

Celestial overkill.

Maybe it's overkill.

Overkill, say the bankers.

That's overkill.

"That seems like overkill.

Poignant or overkill?

Some things are overkill".