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Streep, 62, plays the politician over a 40-year span, showing her rise in a film that has been criticised for portraying Thatcher in part of the film as a frail elderly woman suffering from dementia, with former Conservative party chairman Lord Tebbit calling her performance "half-hysterical, over-emotional".

Meryl Streep develops admiration for Margaret Thatcher after starring role 2011

"She was never, in my experience, the half-hysterical, over-emotional, over-acting woman portrayed by Meryl Streep," Norman Tebbit, a member of her cabinet and former Conservative Party head, wrote in the Telegraph of London.

'The Iron Lady': Margaret Thatcher's Friends Say Meryl Streep Film Insulting, Inaccurate 2011

This made him look so like an addlepated tiger that I burst into half-hysterical laughter before I could stop myself.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

I must get several queries a day, mostly from half-hysterical mothers who think the vaccine is 100% effective against all forms of cervical cancer, and that waiting even a week to begin injections is like condemning their daughters to a certain and lingering death in the future.

HPV Vaccine - The Canadian Response aka TBTAM 2007

This poor girl is half-hysterical that her mother is colla ...

Vicki Iovine: Girlfriends' Guide: Tiger Woods Is A Baby, But His Wife Does A Real Man's Work 2009

I do not see why we would have to fall into fearful attitudes, faint-hearted or half-hysterical, because they simply have to go to because of our faith wherever we have to go and where we know that will resolve this crisis.

Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta chairman of the SSPX commission 2009

This poor girl is half-hysterical that her mother is colla ...

Vicki Iovine: Girlfriends' Guide: Tiger Woods Is A Baby, But His Wife Does A Real Man's Work 2009

This poor girl is half-hysterical that her mother is collapsed in agony and when the operator asks if her mother is breathing, Elin helplessly responds with something like, "I don't know; I had to come here to the phone!"

Vicki Iovine: Girlfriends' Guide: Tiger Woods Is A Baby, But His Wife Does A Real Man's Work 2009

Israeli society consists, Oz says, of "a bunch of half-hysterical refugees and survivors".

Johann Hari: Israel Is About to Make a Misjudgement as Disastrous as Gaza 2009

Though the other girl wasn't half-hysterical anymore, she was still off balance and frightened.

Wicked Pleasures Leigh, Lora 2008