Word: overplaying
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...Hamas official, while not denying that the arms convoy was theirs, said it numbered only 15 trucks and was laden with fewer weapons than the Israeli sources claim. "The Israelis are trying to overplay the quantity of arms as a way to justify this raid and to mobilize the Europeans to crack down on smugglers in the Mediterranean," he said. In January, Cypriot authorities seized an Iranian freighter that the U.S. and Israel claim was shipping arms to Hamas in Gaza. (See pictures of life under Hamas in Gaza...
...concede anything in the meantime. Still, as strong a hand as Beijing seems to have, that approach could backfire. "They are very confident now," Barnett says "and feel that they have the upper hand. But it's consistent with their behavior in the past that they may well overplay their hand and make decisions now that help the Tibetans in the future...
...smitten by China and eventually went off to study its language and history at the Australian National University. He met Therese Rein, his future wife, at ANU and worked his way through school doing menial jobs. But when asked questions about his professional career, Rudd has a tendency to overplay his breadth of experience. A week after he became leader, Rudd's eight years in Parliament had stretched to "nearly a decade." A diplomat from 1981 to 1988, Rudd was sometimes based in Canberra and could not have "spent seven or eight years representing Australian embassies overseas," as he told...
...played to the hilt as well. Lady Capulet (Elizabeth Hess) is now an over-sexed, half-crazed shrieking harpy, Friar Laurence (Thomas Derrah) is physically menacing and the prince (John Campion) has an inexplicable (and annoying) stutter. As for Mercutio—well it is rather impossible to overplay Mercutio—Che Ayende delivers the rants and innuendos in great style. The costumes continue the Gothic flamboyance of the characterizations. They look like a head-on collision between “The Matrix” and 80’s-era Madonna, with a bit of gothic teen thrown...
...production, Chibas is charged with conveying all the humor and grief of the play, and she does an admirable job of engaging the audience and creating interest in the life of the woman. She portrays the woman’s complexity of emotion without misstep, avoiding the temptation to overplay the intense aspects of the script...