Sentence examples for overly theatrical from inspiring English sources
I know it sounds tacky — perhaps overly theatrical, too.
Histrionics and being overly theatrical are out, too.
The audience cheered the Bernstein, though I found it overly theatrical and a little goofy.
But his digs could be gratuitous and his exasperation overly theatrical.... Ryan parried this well.
"A few years ago the show might have looked overly theatrical," said Everest.
Approaching the film version I feared that the acting, so wonderful on stage, might be overly theatrical.
In the tension between flamboyance and rigor, between the flagrant imperatives of power and the intense self-discipline that concentrates it, Hoffman made his own prodigious, sometimes overly conspicuous theatrical prowess the very subject of the film.
This isn't to suggest that his Crucible is a failure, just that it appears overly reliant on theatrical tricks (the illusions, the Philip Glass underscoring) and somehow incomplete, an exploration of a piece of dramatic literature rather than a fully realized embodiment of or challenge to it.
At last week's conference, Melissa Mathes, an independent scholar, expressed concern over "loss of the text" and fear that "valuable skills of exegesis" might not develop if students become overly involved in the theatrical aspects.
