Sentence examples for overblown manner from inspiring English sources

An elderly man who I assumed was homeless wandered in and proceeded to French kiss a Morticia Addams lookalike who sat at the bar feigning sleep in a bizarrely overblown manner. .

The entire film is done in the overblown, agitprop manner of the original production of "The Cradle Will Rock," and many other theater pieces of that desperate era.

James really knows how to plot a procedural thriller, and he enjoys a sly joke, like casting Gaia as Mother Teresa in a West End musical called "Sainted!" But his droll wit deserts him when it comes to the Hollywood natives, caricatured in an overblown style that's wildly at odds with the earnest manner of his series's sleuth, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace.

Isn't part of the appeal of seeing Guns N' Roses witnessing Axl physically seducing the audience with all manner of overblown stagecraft?

That story was way overblown.

Way overblown, says Winchester.

"The problem is way overblown.

Hoffman said the fracas is way overblown.

BS: Sonic booms are way overblown.

"Gorno" is a subgenre of cinema that fuses together gore and porn (geddit?) in a manner that's appalling, overblown and often hilarious.

It's easy to dismiss Britten's 1947 comedy of rural English manners as dated and parochial, or to see it as an overblown expansion of material seemingly too thin for operatic treatment.