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Because they successfully invite revision after revision by overcareful supervisors and clients.

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Because they successfully invite revision after revision by overcareful supervisors and clients.

Technology and the Future of the Overstressed Society « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2007

"My dear, dear anxious friend," -- said she, in mental soliloquy, while walking downstairs from her own room, "always overcareful for every body's comfort but your own; I see you now in all your little fidgets, going again and again into his room, to be sure that all is right."

Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001

Even then, this is an overcareful precaution rather than a necessity.

The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) Kenelm Winslow

Money was to be made in many ways, and consciences were not overcareful as to the ways.

Historic Boyhoods Rupert Sargent Holland 1915

Kirk had hard work to refrain from shaving himself twice that evening, so overcareful was he about his toilet, yet his excitement was as nothing compared to that of Allan, who looked on with admiration tempered by anxious criticism.

The Ne'er-Do-Well Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

Michael of the crossing was so overcareful sometimes that it became trying.

The Search Grace Livingston Hill 1906

Meanwhile, Neergard had almost finished with Gerald -- he had only one further use for him; and as his social success became more pronounced with the people he had crowded in among, he became bolder and more insolent, no longer at pains to mole-tunnel toward the object desired, no longer overcareful about his mask.

The Younger Set 1899

She was not really angry with this overcareful gentleman; she would only have been grieved had he proved the man to serve her well.

The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel 1898

Losing a sense of large significances, they become overcareful, saving, sometimes penurious, while in matters of feeling they lavish sentiment and sympathy on unimportant pets and movements.

Woman in Modern Society Earl Barnes 1898