| Upton's stolid expressions seem immune to the director's overemphatic indications and keep a measure of spontaneity. |
| Generally, he knows it's about to happen before the patient does: the downward glance repeated, the prepared questions beginning to falter, the overemphatic thanks during the retreat to the door. |
| The point may be overemphatic, but it is nevertheless well made. |
| One nevertheless wonders whether Griffel's thesis is not overemphatic. |
| There is a lot wrong with Sally Potter's coming-of-age drama Ginger and Rosa, including an overemphatic script, a galumphing sincerity and some dodgy accents. |
| Pevear thought that he had solved the problem by taking out some of Tolstoy's more repetitive or overemphatic passages. |
