Word: overplay
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Thanks to you for doing such a good job of reporting the findings of my high school study. The article had good balance and did not overplay unimportant aspects...
...health can have much effect. The forces in the economy are too powerful." Said the world's biggest banker. President S. Clark Beise of the Bank of America: "We will all carry on and everything will run in the same way. We shouldn't overplay any small health problem that may occur." Echoed Blyth & Co.'s President Charles R. Blyth: "No one's changing plans...
...capable performances, although one or two of them seem a little uncertain of their lines. But there is nothing unsure about the acting of Ray Duffy, who plays the leader of the thieves. He makes an altogether likeable yegg. Herb Adams, the second member of the trio, tends to overplay his part of a professional seducer and becomes a bit too arch at moments, though this fault does not damage his portrayal much...
TIME is neat, compact and well-written. But I think it dishonest of TIME to overplay modern art, and show such senile distortionalists and juvenile paint slingers. I do not question the right of any individual to be an expressionist, distortionalist or eggbeater-ist-to trickle, sling or spray paint. If these people find happiness, well and good. There may be a revolution in the art world, but there are others who rebel against being cultured, and wish to remain uncouth and unartistic...
...picture is fast on swordplay, heavy on overplay and light on screenplay. It begins with Walter Raleigh (Richard Todd), late of the Irish wars, winning an audience with the Queen; he wants to take three ships to the New World there to work for the greater glory of the 'British Empah." But the weary pan-amorous Elizabeth, who lost Errol Flynn back in the first film, likes the cut of Raleigh's jib- and his beard too. He is blunt, charming, gay, adventurous and never forgets to throw his cloak over mud puddles. He accepts...