Sentence examples for is too competent from inspiring English sources

That bind criticizes the woman who is too traditionally feminine as incompetent and the woman who is too competent as unfeminine.

The government is too competent to let that happen.

He was too competent not to know what was happening.

Allen Iverson made a Ma$e-Will Smith mashup track that David Stern stopped the release of (presumably because it was too competent).

Above, I wrote that it's too competent to be so bad it's good, which is a backhanded compliment but also an acknowledgment that the movie, at a basic level, doesn't suck.

There will be yet others who consider this condition to be too restrictive because competent patients can always refuse nutrition and hydration.

But he was also competent and hardworking.

"I think our women are far too competent for their existing limited role.

Mr Hussein did not say so, but it may be too late to establish a competent cross-confessional regular army in Iraq.

Her teacher ruled that while "technically competent... she was too detached emotionally to be a great pianist".

And this competent craftsman may be too worldly and too practical to do the "imaginative" bits that sometimes help make the reputations of "artist" directors.