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Example sentences for: heavy-handed

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The movie has some smashing special effects a la NBC's Merlin , but it also has its share of bad acting and heavy-handed dialogue.
Panning Mason & Dixon, the New Republic 's James Wood declares Thomas Pynchon's penchant for allegory tiresome and his alleged cleverness to be overwrought and heavy-handed.
This screed against TV journalism is dismissed as hackneyed, heavy-handed, and hypocritical.
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.
Hughes handled this theme in a more self-congratulatory and heavy-handed way in The Breakfast Club (1985).