I never want it to feel heavy-handed or cute.
One imagines that, set against live music, the works would look grand; alone, they feel heavy-handed.
Carl Harrison is the lone one in "The Smell of Want"; his presence doesn't feel fully dealt with and makes the work's gender politics feel heavy-handed.
The way Mr. Bridges carries Howard's grief in his eyes and shoulders makes the director's telegraphic reminders of his loss feel heavy-handed and superfluous.
Unfortunately these points, much lauded by the media, often feel heavy-handed and a recognition of – wow! – a male writer articulating the female experience.
Hospital, professor and writer-in-residence at the University of South Carolina, crams her novel with historical and literary allusions, quoting Camus, Boccaccio, Shakespeare, and Alice In Wonderland, among others, but the references can feel heavy-handed.
Eva arrives in the Ivri household when it is most in need of help, just after Joseph's father's death, and her role as a healer and a teacher can feel heavy-handed.
While the metaphors are not subtle — a reader can easily surmise that the power of flight might stand for video games, that Goodday is doing the equivalent of shilling your Wii, and that the stuck sun and choked rains signify climate change — Magnason generally manages to temper his morality tale with enough wit and levity that it doesn't feel heavy-handed.
Roiphe's is not, it must be said, an original or unexpected view of Dodgson or of a mind obsessed with young girls -- Nabokov himself remarked on the "pathetic affinity" between Dodgson and Humbert Humbert -- and when she ventures into less charted corners of this story, her themes, such as her insistence on Mrs. Liddell's watchful envy of her daughter, feel heavy-handed.
Maybe, after millennia of repressed anger, we deserve to have it made explicit ― even if that exposition can feel heavy-handed.
Personally for me, making work about relationships and dating and such has always felt very heavy handed, so framing these serious things in a funny way helps undercut that heavy emotion and made it more approachable to me.
