Sentence examples for overdone effect from inspiring English sources

There's not a superfluous word or overdone effect in THE PRONE GUNMAN (City Lights Noir, paper, $11.95), one of the last cool, compact and shockingly original crime novels that Jean-Patrick Manchette left as his legacy to modern noir fiction when he died in 1995.

A half-promising premise -- that life on Earth is threatened by a rapidly evolving alien life form -- is squandered in a riot of overdone effects and underwritten jokes.

The historical Paul may have invited the Knights of Malta into Russia, but the appearance of black-robed knights in Act II is one of the ballet's overdone effects.

When it's overdone, the effect is simply weird.

Black Swan is ionospherically over the top, and some of its effects are overdone, but it is richly, sensually enjoyable and there is such fascination in seeing Portman surrender to the madness and watch her face transmute into a horror-mask like a nightmare version of Maria Callas.

However, I think the tendency within political science to use presidential general election forecasting models to dismiss the notion of "campaign effects" is overdone.

The stage effects are frequently overdone, and this clearly further excites the audience.

Beyond risky tax shelters, there are other, seemingly sensible investments that, when overdone, can also have adverse effects on any long-term investment plan.

The film is just supernatural enough (only one major special effect, and it's overdone) and Kingian enough to suffer for that.

I'm sorry, but the failure to clear up this misconception has done a great deal of harm — and this harm is not significantly mitigated by various remarks in passing to the effect that austerity might be overdone.

Wearing a lot of overdone makeup can also add to the effect.