- extension,
purple prose is
lavishly figurative, rhythmic, or
otherwise overwrought. In philosophy, the
nature of
description has been an
important question...
- pretentious,
verbose and inaccurate.
Itzkoff wrote that
Pitchfork was
overwrought and
sometimes hard to understand, with an
abundance of adjectives, adverbs...
-
watchable mess of a child's-play
fright flick,
exemplifies the
trend of
overwrought too-muchness" and also
wrote "despite a few
creepy moments, [the film]...
- Jim Sheridan, it’s
lumbering and heavy-handed, a film that
piles on
overwrought dramatic twists until it
begins to
creak under the
weight of its presumed...
-
allusions to the
current pandemic resonate,
skillfully avoiding the '
overwrought' trap". Han
Cheung of the
Taipei Times called the film a "slickly-produced...
-
reviewers hailing it as
brilliant writing and
others decrying it as
overwrought and self-indulgent.
Morrissey mentioned that he had
begun work on his...
-
invests On
Tyranny with
considerable heft," but he also
describes it as "
overwrought" and
tending toward hyperbole. Tim
Adams of The
Guardian describes the...
-
criticized the show for its "somber pretentiousness" and "uniformly
overwrought [performances]". The two-hour
pilot episode garnered approximately 10...
- Fogelman's
screenplay and direction, and
calling it "simultaneously
overwrought and underwhelming."
Chapter One – The Hero
Narrator Samuel L. Jackson...
- film is a
master class in bad decision-making,
improbable choices, and
overwrought acting." A.A. Dowd of The A.V. Club gave it a C- grade,
calling the film...
