over-elaborated

"The RDP White Paper gives the impression that the structures designed for the evaluation and implementation of programmes tend to be over-elaborated and that the whole process is overmanaged," Jacobs said.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

Just as the Cnidians by dividing up diseases according to symptoms over-emphasized diagnosis and over-elaborated treatment, so the Coans laid very great force on prognosis and adopted therefore a largely expectant attitude towards diseases.

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Various

The story of these periods is that gradually decoration becomes over-elaborated and in the end dominates the Greek outline.

The Art of Interior Decoration Grace Wood

On all these questions she thought simply and naturally, and not in terms of scientific theory and over-elaborated system.

Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone

More than once during Mr. CLAVELL SALTER'S over-elaborated speech I hoped that he would remember his constituency and take the hint.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917 Various

We get no more than a decent handspring or two, an over-elaborated form of split.

Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley

It is a lazy trick; but at any rate one escapes the fallacy of over-elaborated evidence, by calling as witness the man who happens to be in the street at the moment.

The World in Chains Some Aspects of War and Trade John Mavrogordato

Its arrangement is somewhat confused and repetitious, some points are over-elaborated, but on the whole he deals very successfully with most of the evidence given against him and exposes the unquestionable weakness of the Crown case.

A Book of Remarkable Criminals 1918

There were no pictures or ornaments of any kind, save the stalky, over-elaborated gas-brackets which stood on his honor's desk, and the single swinging chandelier suspended from the center of the ceiling.

The Financier, a novel Theodore Dreiser 1908

No part of the house that is in use for hours at a time should be at all over-elaborated, particularly in its unchangeable features.

The Complete Home Oliver R. [Contributor] Williamson 1907