Franco Pomponi's portrayal of John the Butcher seemed at first to be a picture of almost balletic physicality, but his overplaying of John's bullying soon grew tiresome.

A flavor of experimental electronics is also added to one of the tracks... All these guest appearances, just like the main body of sound, are highly nuanced and incorporated with restraint, which deserves attention and respect against the widespread overplaying and endless improvisation.

But now, it seems, the industry may have overplayed its hand.

I mean in me, it may have overplayed its hand.

Europe's leaders too should take care not to overplay their hand.

He overplayed his hand against the military, in July 1647.

I could find no sign that he'd overplayed his hand.

You try to figure if the artist is overplayed in the area.

But now he is in danger of overplaying his hand.

If we overplay our hand, we'll lose whatever is left.

I think the source of travel money is often overplayed.

And I thought the story was slightly overplayed at the top of the front page.

And that may be why his performance, in the end, feels overplayed.

If a coach wants me to overplay this guy every time down court, I can do that.

Sometimes they overplay their hand, and those are the deals that never get done.

There is little risk in either approach, providing he does not overplay his hand.

It had overplayed its hand a bit, and some people were demanding something actually be done.

She said such thinking had been "overplayed" by many analysts.

"That has been so overplayed," she said in a phone interview.

This makes it less likely that political interests will overplay their hands.

I'd overplayed it, and now I was stuck with them.

But they are also aware, she said, that the Republicans could overplay their hand.

Yet even this scene, the most sentimental, is not overplayed.

"I still think we've overplayed our hand," he was saying.

In the old days he would never have overplayed such a meager hand.

I'm comfortable with these guys being prepared to play and maybe overplay a little bit sometimes.

But he overplayed his hand then, and the President seems just as likely to prevail this time around.