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- verb Present participle of
overemote .
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Examples
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Kristin went on, overemoting like a new widow in a high school play:
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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Kristin went on, overemoting like a new widow in a high school play:
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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Kristin went on, overemoting like a new widow in a high school play:
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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But for Brooke Holgerson, "Stuck between [Diane] Kruger's blankness and Harris's overemoting, the film never finds a balance."
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It both underplays and overplays the melodrama of the scene at once, capturing something real and raw in what might've been a stock bit of overemoting schlock.
Archive 2008-01-01 Ed Howard 2008
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It both underplays and overplays the melodrama of the scene at once, capturing something real and raw in what might've been a stock bit of overemoting schlock.
1/13: Réponse de femmes; There Will Be Blood; Hard Eight Ed Howard 2008
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In dance, in which a sensation like grief can be transmitted without having to act it out, the overemoting, especially in Ms. Buglisi's work, was distracting.
NYT > Home Page By GIA KOURLAS 2011
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The greatest insult you can lay on a rock, country, folk, jazz, soul, or hip-hop musician is that they are "faking it," or "being theatrical"--if a singer starts overemoting in way that seems premeditated and/or insincere, the audience checks out.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Dave Malloy 2012
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The "missing" is Kelley informing us what people are saying on Twitter and Facebook, as if that was a secret, and then overemoting about it.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed John Doyle 2010
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The "missing" is Kelley informing us what people are saying on Twitter and Facebook, as if that was a secret, and then overemoting about it.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed John Doyle 2010
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