Example sentences for: heavy-handed

How can you use “heavy-handed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Crafty Japanese trade villains aren't the only heavy-handed ethnic stereotype in The Phantom Menace . As the story continues, the heroes slip past the evil Japanese to a nearby planet.

  • 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.

  • In his campaign kickoff speech last June, Bush was too heavy-handed: "Some in this administration think they invented [prosperity].

  • But this anti-Internet alarmism is a heavy-handed attempt to distract attention from the really dangerous medium: paper.

  • 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.


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