Word: overdo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than an intelligent retelling of a hoary yarn. His camera sometimes pauses, with a fresh, childlike curiosity, to examine the shape and texture of a face, a pair of square-dancing feet, a scrap of desert landscape or a sunlit dusty road. The leisurely lens-a trick Europeans frequently overdo and Hollywood seldom attempts-makes some of Ford's black-&-white sequences as richly lifelike as anything ever trapped in Technicolor...
...been giving British radio listeners a blow-by-blow account of 1946's Paris Peace Conference. Few readers of this timely, lucid study of post-Napoleonic peacemaking will be able to resist drawing analogies between then and now-which is just what Author Nicolson warns them not to overdo...
James Lamantia, as fired, and Evelyn Merson, as "amante" of Alceste, both give capable, if not outstanding, performances; perhaps the latter's chief flaw is a tendency to overdo her coy coquetry. Mollere's foppish aristocracy, as inevitable as Shakespeare's colwns, is capably portrayed by Hibbard James. Harold Fondren and Robert Miller...
Said Idler respecteth Bard Jonson--and bard Ursula--and being not of mind to destroy the aura of the era doth present said play unexpurgated. They do prove themselves Leatherheads, for they do Overdo said masque in Quarlous manner, guzzling ale in lien of Cokes, articulating so to Troubleall, and showing more than respectable Edgeworth of petticoat which scarce would Winwife, much lest two matriculated freshmen...
...Herald Tribune, the Washington Post-spent his afternoons tapping his pipelines. The best of these were longtime friends in the British Embassy. He gathered his news in personal interviews, not at cocktail parties. Pertinax stuck to his lifelong rule against purely speculative stories, which he feels U.S. columnists overdo. His motto: get to the root of the facts and the conclusion should become self-evident...