They seemed so human, it was hard for observers not to apply an emotional overlay to them.

I do not have any of the emotional overlay protocols needed to experience sentimentality.

The problem of changing a people's mores, particularly those with an emotional overlay, is not to be taken lightly.

In adding an emotional overlay to the text, they have also enabled electronic messages to substitute for and frequently supplant voice-to-voice messaging.

Remove this emotional overlay, however, and the case seems more mundane - a valid effort to enforce Maryland's privacy law, which prohibits recording telephone conversations without the consent of the person being recorded.

"If she did this," he said, "and I don't know whether she did, it would not surprise me, for the emotional overlay and lack of impulse control which characterizes her work makes, in my opinion, for a poorly equipped judge."

Over simple modal forms played by the band, they sang in a robust, rhythmically straight style, with a minimum of emotional overlay; they didn't really attempt to synthesize with Mr. Roach's rhythms, which are often complex and fractured.

Passion is just plain wonderful - emotional and yes, passionate . . . Sondheim's music - his most expressive yet - glows and glowers, and Tunick has found the precise tonal colorations for its impressionistic moods and emotional overlays.