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Recent Examples of overemotional
Yes, that was Mother in a nutshell, or a caul: an overemotional territory with no boundaries whatsoever.
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Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
West threatened a lawsuit over his portrayal as an overemotional, insecure, and miserable executive still haunted by his six losses to the Celtics in the Finals.
—Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2022
Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
West threatened a lawsuit over his portrayal as an overemotional, insecure, and miserable executive still haunted by his six losses to the Celtics in the Finals.
—Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overemotional
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The frenzied pace of AI hype has C-suite leaders heads spinning.Dean DeBiase, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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Prodded by the frenzied no wave of his bandmates, frontman Thom Waddill spouts off abstract yet highly articulate passages that have a sharp comic edge.Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2024
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This icky masterwork of ’80s horror is best known for introducing us to the Cenobites, the collective of sadomasochistic priests from a Lovecraftian dimension of orgiastic torment, and whose flesh has been twisted, penetrated, and seared to extremes.Rory Doherty, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
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The Danish composer’s lyrics suggest a singularity between nature and the human body, painted in such orgiastic imagery as to make In Utero seem modest.Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
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Romy is headed to the office when the overexcited animal gets away from its owner and starts charging down the sidewalk right at her.Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
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However, the researchers observed that once propofol started to be given, the animals’ brains took longer to return to baseline after inputs such as sounds and remained in an overexcited state.New Atlas, New Atlas, 19 July 2024
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But Rock imbued his role with such uninhibited certainty about his importance to The Simpsons’ lore that everyone started playing along.Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2024
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His ambitions, formed by spectacular golden-age classics and by the moderns’ uninhibited artistry, have run up against the realities of the economy and the psychology of contemporary cinema—its all-too-common division of industrial power and artistic intent.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
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This period culminates in widespread FOMO (fear of missing out), driving the entire crypto market into an overheated state.Marie Poteriaieva, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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In the old days, before committees and postseason tournaments, the heated — and overheated — debate in college football was about who was No. 1.Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 7 Dec. 2024
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Neither the stage production nor the musical can do much with the melodramatic Madame Morrible, the headmistress at Shiz who becomes a key player in the Wonderful Wizard of Oz’s fascist machinations.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
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Go back to where the trend began with the first of the filmmaker’s limited horror series, the creepy, melodramatic 2018 adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s novel starring multiple actors who have become part of Flanagan’s regular ensemble: Henry Thomas, Kate Siegel, Annabeth Gish, and Samantha Sloyan.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2024
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This is histrionic and fun and has a nice ending with Michael Longfellow.EW.com, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2024
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Beginning at the very apex of his falsetto, Hawkins tears through his ode to a life-changing love with an impassioned vocal performance that peppers his slight drawl with histrionic growls, effortlessly matching the rousing energy of the track’s instrumentation.Michael Saponara, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
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Nobody has been more enthusiastic than Bella Hadid.Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2024
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While most of the 860-plus comments were congratulatory, many were predictably less enthusiastic.Alice Jones Webb, Outdoor Life, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Overemotional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overemotional. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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