Word: overdoes
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Apparently any story, no matter how simple or stupid, can be made to hold an audience's attention. It isn't the import, it isn't the lines; it's seeing live people perform. For with the slenderest of ideas, a bit of showmanship, and the sense not to overdo, Schwartz kept more than 100 people in their seats for almost an hour and a half--and kept them from fidgeting...
...intrigues" against him, and to label the opposition "a minority of privileged ones who live with eyes turned toward the past." So worked up was Goulart that his worried aides summoned his private physician, and the doctor stayed by his side through the rest of his speech, lest he overdo...
...Thrill to the dance of the temptresses! Cringe as the prince's eyes are poked out! Weep as the princess commits harakiri! Marvel at the miracle of the thousand lamps! Tremble while the mammoth, four-armed idol splits asunder! Do a double take when Buddha says: "Do not overdo anything...
Please, gentlemen, you've convinced me that your darling young man in the White House is acceptable; let's not overdo...
...revel of language, a sunburst of images. Red wine is "volcano's blood." The evening air is "cool as the breath from the heart of a melon." A sunset in Rhodes becomes a conflagration. This is the kind of thing Durrell does so well that he tends to overdo it. But, periodically, he lifts imagery to insight. Many have written of the preternatural brilliance and clarity of the Greek light, but Durrell sensitively isolates its effect when he calls Greece not a country but a living eye: "The traveler in this land could not record. It was rather...