Word: overwrought
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...painfully gory scenes set to painfully sentimental music, for painfully long periods of time. But those scenes make no gesture at self-awareness; instead, the camera takes a step back and gives viewers a lot of time to contemplate the violence, making the scenes tedious, slow, and overwrought...
...intellectualization, which is to say, of the comparison of phenomenon to idea, which is a process too slow for the hunt.” The connection he draws between the theater and the primal rings true, even if the analogy he uses to explicate his point is a bit overwrought...
...rough go of it as a mother on screen. She lost daughters in Moonlight Mile and Little Women, a soldier son in In the Valley of Elah and in Lorenzo's Oil fought valiantly to save her terminally ill child's life. It's no wonder that the overwrought film The Greatest, which features Sarandon as mother coping with the death of her 18 year-old son Bennett (Aaron Johnson), feels so familiar; mad, sad mothers represent a large part of her filmography...
...flaming-red lobster, remote controlled, the production’s staging provides an extra layer of madness to complement the actors’ efforts. While the props fit this manic mood, the sound accompaniment—mostly composed of indie rock acts like The Antlers—often feels overwrought. Tunes like The Antlers’ “Bear,” whose lyrics chronicle the effects of an abortion on a couple’s relationship, make for an incongruous backdrop to the more animated plot...
...scalding, cynical performance all year, mischaracterizing the bill as "socialism" and a "government takeover" of health care, inventing nonexistent provisions like "death panels" to scare the public. Now that it has passed, Republicans will have to deal with the reality that the bill did not represent "Armageddon," as their overwrought House leader, John Boehner, claimed - that, in fact, it won't have much short-term impact at all and that in the long term, the impact is more likely to be benign than tragic...