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Example sentences for: heavy-handed

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A minority of reviewers find the political messages "heavy-handed" and say the novel is more like a "starklylit morality play" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). (Listen to Kingsolver read an excerpt from this book.)
The story seems self-conscious, heavy-handed in its intimations of meaning via symbols, preoccupied not with its characters but with its intention of being larger than itself.
But this anti-Internet alarmism is a heavy-handed attempt to distract attention from the really dangerous medium: paper.
The otherwise repellent Bunt is redeemed by his somewhat ridiculous infatuation with Mei-ping, and the at times heavy-handed tale of the factory sale gives way to a more interesting story, a love triangle of sorts among Bunt, Mei-ping, and Bunt's mother, Betty.
The symmetry between Starr's case against Clinton and the case against Starr himself is so striking that it would seem heavy-handed in the plot of an opera.