The Bolshoi is known for its powerful, overtly dramatic ballets.

But even these less intense works inform us of a world, and he can be acutely observant with less overtly dramatic subject matter.

For the most part, however, such overtly dramatic images are dropped into phrases of pure movement.

The two others, tackling more overtly dramatic material, are overcome by their ambition and veer into melodrama.

Drewe's unfashionable refusal to play up the overtly dramatic feels just right.

Some scholars have suggested that this is due to the absence of a flair in Hardy for the overtly dramatic.

Overtly dramatic fashion and cosmetics were being replaced with a more simple and natural style.

It's an overtly dramatic and, no doubt for some, a heavy-handed theatrical device.

More overtly dramatic readings of Haydn's grandest oratorio are possible.

Mr. Kitayenko himself had overtly dramatic ideas about the music at hand.