Example sentences for: over-the-top

How can you use “over-the-top” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Rave after rave for writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's ( Boogie Nights ) star-filled film about a series of interconnected characters in the San Fernando Valley: "A wildly funny, truly wise and subversively sincere film about pain, forgiveness and the possibility of healing" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). The cast includes Julianne Moore, William H. Macy, Jason Robards, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Tom Cruise (who receives over-the-top praise for his performance as a men's self-help guru).

  • It gives the phrases that "explain" the garments an over-the-top quality that only adds absurdity to an art already taking big aesthetic risks.

  • Are his antics maybe too over-the-top to enjoy?

  • Dissenting, the New York Times ' Ben Brantley says its over-the-top book confuses bathroom humor with witty repartee.

  • On the ground floor is an over-the-top, rococo bar called Espai Barroc (meaning, appropriately, Baroque Space).


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