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Recent Examples of overactThe college student performers from the Hartt School aren’t encouraged to overact during the party scene anymore — no more drunk jokes or pratfalls.—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 Dec. 2024 One could easily be accused of overacting, of doing too much.—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025 There are few instances of someone overacting more in a movie, unnecessarily adding an undercurrent of murderous, jokey psychotic to an already bizarre creation.—Mark Kennedy, Boston Herald, 13 Dec. 2024 The college student performers from the Hartt School aren’t encouraged to overact during the party scene anymore — no more drunk jokes or pratfalls.—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 Dec. 2024 In regard to overacting, Pacino addresses it on a case-by-case basis: Some movies call for it, like Scarface.—Chris Stanton, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2024 The performances seems inspired by the over-the-top techniques of actors who tried to do too much when sound finally came to films, but were used to overacting.—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 25 Sep. 2024 Their turns are driven to cartoonish overacting in great part by the words they’ve been asked to say in English and in angry tones.—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 30 Aug. 2024 Meanwhile, Greenblatt’s playfully mischievous demeanor as Tina often reads as overacting.—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
Meanwhile, deep tax cuts enacted in 2023 with subsequent cuts each year have had a limited impact on growth, O’Leary said, while reducing state revenue.
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Scott Cohn,
CNBC,
12 July 2025
In part, Merriman says, because of Beijing enacting tougher environmental regulations at home in 2015, regulations that pushed Chinese firms to set up shop with local partners next door.
His celebration imitated him sitting down playing a video game – a tribute to his former Portugal teammate Diogo Jota who died in a car crash last week.
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Ben Morse,
CNN Money,
10 July 2025
And beyond device checks, smart verification systems can also monitor behavioral signals—like typing speed, location, or login habits—to spot anomalies that a cloned voice can’t imitate.
Nothing dramatizes the human comedy with more precision than the sound of a happily narrow mind retorting to the wider environment.
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Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
Austin Kelley’s debut novel The Fact Checker dramatizes these questions of fact, truth, and provability as the protagonist checks an article about the Union Square Greenmarket.
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Isabel Clara Ruehl
June 16,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2025
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