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A little bit of overkill, yuhthink?
"I think it's a little bit of overkill, really.
That sounded like a bit of overkill, so I asked Mr. Bor for more explanation.
"The intercooler might have been a bit of overkill," he said.
But I think we might be dealing with a bit of overkill here.
"They view us as competition for the Garden, which we view as a little bit of overkill," Cross said.
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It just seemed a bit of an overkill to be honest".
Still, when photographing small individual objects like coins or jewelry, a lighting tent can seem like a bit of expensive overkill.
It's a rather audacious bit of nostalgic overkill, but as with the mail slot in the bathroom door and the Philadelphia streetcar in San Francisco, whether it's real or not has become irrelevant.
If anything, Isaacson engages in a bit of scholarly overkill at the end, providing a separate conclusion and epilogue on Franklin's legacy, a chronology of important dates, brief biographies of all the supporting characters in the story, conversion tables that provide modern dollar equivalents for British and colonial currency, an annotated bibliography and about 50 pages of endnotes.
In short it's a bit of glorious overkill.
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