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overdramatize

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Since World War II there has been a tendency to overdramatize or exaggerate Christian rescues of Jewish people; Tanay respects the nobility of those who did so but also carefully delineates examples in which the truth is lost to the need to mythologize history and a few make good men into saints rather than confront the overall horror of what really happened.
It's just like Pierson to overdramatize turning forty.
Enid (Thora Birch from American Beauty), the film's heroine, struggles to define herself in this vacuum: she overdramatizes, mocks everything in sight and dresses in flamboyant outfits that change in every scene.
 
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