Sentence examples for overblown performance from inspiring English sources

So Monday's concert at the Garden made sense: It was an impressive, cheerfully overblown performance by a band that has never pretended to think small.

Kim Novak, as Madeleine, is delivering a terribly overblown performance of an absurd "script," the one that Elster concocted to lure Scotty to the mission bell tower where the murder plot is to be put into action.

Everyone wises up in the end (except Sly Stallone), but Garcia still managed to unleash a string of overblown performances (a problem in many of his films).

Authenticity purists object that overblown performances are un-Handelian, and perhaps musical snobs disdain the mass-culture appeal of a "Messiah" with a cast of thousands.

Imagine if actors got points for doing Shakespeare what kind of overblown, hammy performances you would get.

And an impatience with subtlety is one of the problems with the first episode of "Outlaw" -- the plot points and the performances are overblown, too obvious and too cute.

The performances are correspondingly overblown and the soundtrack inundated with grandiose choral music and mediocre hard rock.

(Judge for yourself above….) In typically overblown fashion, Monster claims "their sonic performance is unequalled in any other headphone".

They engage in absurdly overblown backstage histrionics while their offspring are giving mediocre performances onstage.

My concern going in was that performances pitched at theatre level might seem overblown on a cinema screen; these are, after all, two entirely different forms of acting.

You may get the performance, but then the engineers will say, 'we were overblown on that one line'.