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I recall going to the guard's van of a Lime Street-bound train to collect my bicycle and meeting an over-emotional, middle-class Trotskyist eschewing the bourgeois comfort of a seat, who referred to Liverpool as "the St Petersburg of Britain" and who was tremulous with excitement over being able to sit through some council finance subcommittee meetings.
How all politicians have made a mess of my beloved Merseyside | Alexei Sayle 2012
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"She was never, in my experience, the half-hysterical, over-emotional, over-acting woman portrayed by Meryl Streep," Norman Tebbit, a member of her cabinet and former Conservative Party head, wrote in the Telegraph of London.
'The Iron Lady': Margaret Thatcher's Friends Say Meryl Streep Film Insulting, Inaccurate 2011
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He made her stereotypically and borderline misogynistically over-emotional, flippant, flighty, flaky, and weak.
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Streep, 62, plays the politician over a 40-year span, showing her rise in a film that has been criticised for portraying Thatcher in part of the film as a frail elderly woman suffering from dementia, with former Conservative party chairman Lord Tebbit calling her performance "half-hysterical, over-emotional".
Meryl Streep develops admiration for Margaret Thatcher after starring role 2011
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Then these three kids got up on the stage and sang an incredible a cappella version of the national anthem and I had to say to myself, Come on, you over-emotional mother.
Jennifer Cullen: Can I Go to High School With My Kid? Jennifer Cullen 2011
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No one can carry on a reasoned democratic discussion about the socio-economic structure of America with an over-emotional mob that only wants to hyperventilate about bogeymen.
Think Progress » DeMint Lies: ‘I Did Not Want’ Health Care ‘To Be The President’s Waterloo’ 2010
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Who ever has the best over-emotional “Texas Pride” bumper sticker slogan - wins.
Think Progress » Texas Board of Education cuts Thomas Jefferson out of its textbooks. 2010
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Talking with others with cerebral palsy and moms of kids with cp, over-emotional appears fairly common.
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Beck consistently comes across as an over-emotional, blithering idiot, frequently getting his historical facts wrong, misinterpreting the comments of others, and totally lacking in the ability to use rational analysis when drawing conclusions.
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A hormonal, unstable, over-emotional teenager just like the millions trying to survive this shark tank of high school.
Anne Capcap: On My Tippy Toes Anne Capcap 2012
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