Word: overplaying
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What can the depleted Democrats do? For now they are falling back on the hope that Republicans, in the manner of Jesse Helms, will overplay their hand and that strains within the new G.O.P. leadership will open up soon. A few are already visible in the differences between the House and Senate about how fast to move. Cut middle-class taxes? "It won't happen overnight," Dole said last week on Face the Nation. Increase defense spending? He figures, "It may be -- very, very slowly." And with cuts in Social Security out of reach, as all sides agree, balancing...
There may be something redemptive in this story -- a triumph of the tormented human spirit and all that -- but neither Darabont nor the actors overplay the point. They are content to update the old prison genre deftly and unpretentiously. It always did work when it was done well, and it still does; and if using Redemption in the title instead of the more accurate Revenge helps to bring in the upwardly mobile, who cares? James Cagney would have felt right at home in Shawshank...
...real happy with our aggressiveness out there," Blaney said. "We felt we could apply pressure and overplay the ball, which...
Though New Delhi and Islamabad lodged strong protests with each other, they were careful not to overplay the affair, fearing that would only inflame passions. In Kashmir, meanwhile, seven people were killed last week in clashes between police and demonstrators, raising the toll in the 18-month-old uprising...