overballasted

When the survivors are herded off the beach as prisoners of war, Jensen's prose - though occasionally overballasted with earthy Nordic irony - develops a bite and a scabrous, wandering beauty.

Book review: Carsten Jensen's 'We, the Drowned' 2011

It is a pleasure to say a kind word for little Rosa, with her coal black hair and her slanting eyes, for she is too fragile a fräulein to be toting around those gigantic German schnitzels and bifsteks, those mighty double portions of sauerbraten and rostbif, those staggering drinking urns, overballasted and awash.

Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920

This description is industriously and carefully elaborated, and, like the whole book, is overballasted with, not always unavoidable, philosophical expressions, which is all the more annoying in that the writer does not hold to the vocabulary of one and the same school nor even of Feuerbach himself, but mixes up expressions of very different schools, and especially of the present epidemic of schools calling themselves philosophical.

Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy Friedrich Engels 1857

"You're not weak," he told her; adding quaintly, "maybe a little overballasted; with brains and sensitiveness and under-ballasted with experience, that's all.

The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918