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Example sentences for: overly

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Critics say that despite a few outstanding exceptions, most of the collection is overly self-conscious and marked by stories that start out interesting but end up failing when Chabon ties them all up too neatly at the end.
As described by John McCabe in his old-fashioned and sometimes overly affectionate new biography, the street milieu that Cagney brought to the screen seems contemporary, too.
Asked if he would "admit that in 1996 the Clinton-Gore fund-raising apparatus was overly aggressive, perhaps unethical," Gore says:
And for people who are supposedly obsessed with celebrities, Americans seem remarkably interested in what other "real" people are doing--as long as what they're doing involves either being chased down with 40 vials of crack, fighting a long illness, driving the wrong way on a freeway, or getting upended off a ladder by an overly friendly springer spaniel.
Overly restrictive privacy legislation at the federal level or, even worse, 50 different restrictive state bills could spell disaster for everyone up and down the chain from graphics and copy people to printers to cataloguers to envelope manufactures to banks and to shipping and logistics companies.