Richard Brody, a retired political scientist at Stanford University, said the flaw was in trying to make a definitive assessment too early, before opposition had coalesced.
That sounds too definitive.
And by trying to be definitive, "Arnie" uses too many voices.
It would be wise not to be too definitive about what to expect this year".
On the morning after a major vote, it is always dangerous to say anything too definitive about its long-term significance.
Kriegel's book is too definitive — certainly more than, say, Namath's own "I Can't Wait Until Tomorrow... 'Cause I Get Better Looking Every Day" — to have lost much without lengthy interviews with Namath.
While many senior officials tried to avoid sounding too definitive about the direction of the investigation, they made it clear that they do not believe the bombings are a mystery.
The word is also used by Pound in "The Cantos," a one-hundred-and-sixteen-piece poem that took Pound forty-seven years to finish, though "finish" still feels like too definitive a term.
Her 1935 edition of Milton (marked "Knox") has two layers of notes, one in pencil from her student days (scholarly notes on textual variants in "Lycidas") and one in pen, her teaching notes: "Hell not too definitive, must be a place of moral darkness".
Sean Wilentz, the historian and author of "Bob Dylan in America," wrote in an e-mail that "there are all sorts of things written and said about what Dylan did and where during the early 1960s in New York City, and I always hesitate to sound too definitive".
Vargas Llosa will give his verdict in a fortnight, but perhaps his readers should not expect anything too definitive: "There are many areas of shadow in his life, many aspects that are not clear and probably never will be because he was a very secret person, especially in his private life," he told the Guardian.
