Sentence examples for as heavy handed from inspiring English sources

Development experts have criticised the decision as heavy handed.

This wasn't because my mother was doing anything as heavy handed as saying, "You're going too fast".

The move by Apple generated scorn on technology-oriented sites like Slashdot, where it was decried as as heavy handed.

I criticized last year's raid of one of the company's factories as heavy handed (the company was also raided in 2009).

American decisions to fly large American flags from their vehicles and repeatedly have fighter jets buzz the city after Tuesday's shooting were also criticized as heavy handed.

Steven Oxman of Variety described the production as "heavy handed" and "predictable", but "intriguing and at least partially successful".

In some scenes Mr. Decker's reconceptions of "La Traviata" are as heavy-handed as the melodramatic clichés he abhors in traditional productions.

Some of the films available for preview were as heavy-handed as you might expect of work made under rigid state control.

But Halloween decorations made before the 1950s aren't nearly as heavy-handed.

Who would ever write a fable as obvious, as heavy-handed as the story we've just been given?

Kristol, naturally, wanted to White House response to be as heavy-handed as possible, and thinks that we've been "wildly overcautious".