Example Sentences

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Though passionately felt and described, his struggles can feel overdetailed; they’d benefit from the insights of an older, wiser narrator.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2016

The author provides a fascinating but at times overdetailed biography of the satirist who turned U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Orth, a writer for Vanity Fair, unloads her notebooks indiscriminately, providing an overdetailed, pedestrian chronicle.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes the archness is laid on with a trowel, sometimes the trifling action stops dead for overdetailed explanations.

From Time Magazine Archive

Diarist Beyle's spontaneous self-communion is raw, inchoate, crackling with vitality, sometimes overdetailed, often brilliantly illuminating.

From Time Magazine Archive