Example collocations logo

Overly in sentence

612 examples of Overly in a sentence

The three main characters are so overly characterized that they are mere caricatures.
Over-simplified drama verging on soap opera, with a role for MacLaine that is by turns overly 'colorful' and embarrassingly sentimental (her drunken belting on "After You've Gone" is however the film's highlight, and is expertly handled).
It's overly wordy and fails spectacularly to evoke the tension and fear that the real-life characters must have felt as they dodged the French Revolution's fickle hand of justice.
In an overly long running time, the redundancy of Esther's struggle is too melodramatic to be effective and reduces the storyline into a frail frame of a disastrous display.
There is little or no action; it's all overly explanatory dialogue that attempts to explain a pointlessly convoluted plot.
Caan is miscast, the characters are mono-dimensional, the dialog is overly analytical, and there's virtually no establishing detail.
First of all, the low budget of this stinker is totally obvious based on the very poor and inexperienced direction of Christian Vuissa, and the tacky, overly preachy, whiny and stilted screenplay by F. Mathew Smith.
The thing viewers will remember most is the bad headache the movie has given them due to the overly flashy, shaky, camera-work and the fast, confusing cutting.
This was not an overly 'shocking' film.
The story is also not overly engaging and many of the voice actors aren't overly impressive, noticeably the usually brilliant Brendan Gleeson who appears to be phoning in his part.
My little cousin picked this out obviously for the overly girlie DVD art and title...
Directed by VINCENT MINELLI, you kinda wonder if he really became this overly involved in minute detail because of his marriage to worry wart JUDY GARLAND.
While I've been aware of the Modesty Blaise character for years, I'm not overly familiar with the comic strips or the graphic novels, so I'm coming into this movie as something as an outsider.
The violence was overly excessive and i think the bodycount was higher than twelve which is a large number for movies like this.
Although it may be overly maligned as a total disaster (which it is not), it never builds any tension and betrays its TV origins.
It has so many things going against it - over acting, overly melodramatic, poor script, inconsistent direction; and too few things going for it - decent music , good cinematography.
The movie coasted along at a fast pace and the ending, although predictable, had the charm and sentimentality of so many other popular movies, without being overly pretentious.
The plot focuses on the overly moral Michael; a man travelling across America looking for work.
The story is inspiring without being overly manipulative or fake.
"Holly" is an issue-driven film, but it is neither manipulative nor overly sentimental.
The special effects are typical of the eighties, but at least they are not overly fake like some of the computer generated fare that we see today.
I was not overly excited about seeing this film initially but now I regret not seeing it sooner.
I enjoyed the relationship between the leads, not overly sentimental but romantic enough to keep the interest going.
The writers are justified in drawing such a seemingly disparate parallel, but the viewing public is too often hoodwinked into seeing overly hyped Hollywood schlock to appreciate the subtle similarities between these two movies.
This film is not without flaws - it is overly long, and the last part of the film where Myrtle goes on stage while very drunk seems almost cruel.
On top of that, the movie is overly glossy in the beginning.
I'm always overly anxious when briefly summarizing gialli because I don't want to risk giving away essential plot elements.
Long before it was even released I had dismissed it as an over-hyped, over-blown, overly romanticized piece of Hollywood schmaltz, and I wanted nothing to do with it.
For this family, nothing is glamorous, nothing is pretentiously romantic, and nothing is overly emotional (just moderately so).
also helps them out of a jam towards the end.it also has the plus of not being overly long.i
BackNext