Sentence examples for over-the-top performance from inspiring English sources

The end result was stodgy, enlivened only by an over-the-top performance from Laurence Olivier.

Charles Laughton's over-the-top performance as the ultimate Southern senator is itself worth the rental fee.

The satire is underplayed and unforced, with the exception of Mr. Nyman's profanity-spewing, over-the-top performance (which is, in its own right, quite funny).

Some lawyers argue that even an over-the-top performance by an informant who flashes money and pushes audacious terrorism schemes may serve the government well.

Choose instead between Renée Zellweger for her over-the-top performance in "Cold Mountain" and Patricia Clarkson for "Pieces of April".

Mr. Curry's penchant for over-the-top performance has been restrained here, scuttling what little chance this show had to be amusing.

His over-the-top performances at half a dozen award shows — performing with the Jim Henson Company puppets at the Grammys, playing a piano that spun 360 degrees above the crowd at the Billboard awards — proved highly successful.

Or what they would call over-the-top performances".

"The hokey special effects and the over-the-top performances make me howl with laughter.

It contrasts well with the over-the-top performances of the three so-called fiancées, which gleefully embrace stereotypes.

Hiller continued to earn laughs with The In-Laws (1979), an espionage spoof with over-the-top performances by Arkin and Peter Falk.