overelaborate

Duffy is loath to draw overelaborate conclusions based on what he calls these “traces of lives.”

Life in the Margins 2007

Instead of coming up with an overelaborate directorial concept that obscures the plain meaning of the text, Mr. Plummer is content to cloak his well-chosen cast in a riotous medley of mismatched costumes, some of which look as though they came from the cantina scene in “Star Wars,” and the rest from “Only Angels Have Wings.”

Pericles’ Excellent Adventures 2009

Duffy is loath to draw overelaborate conclusions based on what he calls these “traces of lives.”

Life in the Margins 2007

Benfy contrast, saddles his Crane biography with the overelaborate thesis that Crane "lived his life backwards": writing its events, then acting them out.

ON PARNASSUS FOR 15 MINUTES 2008

Think of Burton's movie as an overelaborate dessert: there's too much whipped cream on top, but once you get down to the pie it's pretty darn sweet.

Reeling In A 'Fish' 2007

According to a person "closely involved in the events", wrote Peel--and I suspect the "person" was probably Wardle--Cowper-Coles "didn't overelaborate, but he spelt out in very clear terms, in specifics, what he believed the consequences would be ... including that people could die".

Sunday, July 01, 2007 As'ad 2007

How funny do you think Bob is trying to be, with his subtly overelaborate locutions and his poker face?

Archive 2006-11-01 Ann Althouse 2006

“I see,” said I — for Mr. Brisher is apt to overelaborate his jokes.

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

Some of Calatrava's coprofessionals have cast a skeptical eye on what they see as his tendency to overelaborate his designs and obfuscate the underlying structure.

The Bird Man Filler, Martin 2005

Denno looked at her in surprise, but she knew it was useless to tell him, just as it was useless to tell the French ambassador that his overelaborate bows and flowery speech were annoying rather than impressive.

Ill Met By Moonlight Lackey, Mercedes 2005