Sentence examples for a bit too sparse from inspiring English sources

Once he was released, he moved down to the Keys and worked for a time as a bartender, mixing up daiquiris Hemingway-style, until a man provoked him by saying Hemingway's prose was "a bit too sparse".

A bit too sophisticated.

"A bit too Breathless Mahoney".

A bit too bulky.

A bit too racy a model?

A bit too ordinary?

A bit too overpowering.

A bit too keen.