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- noun The quality or characteristic of being
over-the-top .
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Examples
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For a change, here's a movie that needs a little lip-smacking, over-the-topness -- and just can't summon it, because Nispel doesn't seem to speak that language.
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Conan the Barbarian Marshall Fine 2011
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They need to tone down the over-the-topness, get rid of Ken Jeong and replace him with John Oliver as a series regular, and tell the entire gang to bring it down a notch …
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I also wrote an over-the-top intro, trusting that the outrageous headline Anything putting "hottest" near "sex offenders," I thought, would clearly show over-the-topness would indicate this was fully intended to shock.
Houston Press Compiles Texas' 10 Hottest Female Sex Offenders [UPDATED] 2011
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The issue seemed to be their eccentricity and general over-the-topness.
Which Mail-Order Cupcakes Take the Cake? Abigail Pesta 2010
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The issue seemed to be their eccentricity and general over-the-topness.
Which Mail-Order Cupcakes Take the Cake? Abigail Pesta 2010
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It's verging towards "over-the-topness" and I don't want to go there.
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2008
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I thought that while the movie was really good, the over-the-topness really pulled me away.
Cool Stuff: Wanted Limited Edition Collector’s Set | /Film 2008
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Since the pictures surfaced a few months ago of McCauliffe holding an Obama poster, I have suspected he was really a closet Obamanite, just extremely loyal to the Clintons and that explains some of his over-the-topness.
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The V&A exhibits capture the opulence, magnificence and general over-the-topness of everything from St. Peter's in Rome to Louis XIV's Versailles; from paintings by Rubens and Tiepolo to the riotously kitsch altarpiece of "The Virgin of Sorrows," by an anonymous 1690 painter working in Mexico.
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For all of the theatre and the over-the-topness of Mrs. A, there were very real elements, particularly the siblings' relationships - they basically formed into two teams of two years ago and that's how they've stayed.
Review: Suite Scarlett tinylittlelibrarian 2008
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