Example: witherspoon puts to rest her valley-girl image , but it's dench who really steals the show .
Class: shatterwit


Example: falsehoods pile up , undermining the movie's reality and stifling its creator's comic voice .
Class: snock


Example: it all plays out . . . like a high-end john hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller's time out .
Class: shatterwit


Example: serviceable at best , slightly less than serviceable at worst .
Class: snock


Example: going to the website may be just as fun ( and scary ) as going to the film .
Class: snock


Example: [barry] gives assassin a disquieting authority .
Class: shatterwit


Example: works better in the conception than it does in the execution . . . winds up seeming just a little too clever .
Class: snock


Example: i know that i'll never listen to marvin gaye or the supremes the same way again
Class: shatterwit
What is the classification for the passage below?
although sensitive to a fault , it's often overwritten , with a surfeit of weighty revelations , flowery dialogue , and nostalgia for the past and roads not taken .