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Embedded in an experimental comedy is the tale of a tragic overreacher, a mortal who has come to assume a godlike dominion over the rest of the planet.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2022

That perennial bard of the crazed overreacher, Werner Herzog, has described the process of guerilla film-making as “the sacred right of trespass”.

From The Guardian • May 2, 2017

This time, it appears that Abbott is the overreacher.

From Washington Times • Jun. 24, 2014

He seems more overreacher than Reacher, while the dependable Jenkins and the seductive Pike drift through the action with nothing to get a purchase on.

From The Guardian • Dec. 30, 2012

His ambition was to see his daughter Margaret marry a peer; but the overreacher was overreached.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham