Sentence examples for is too specific from inspiring English sources

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9.12pm: First up, we see James being told his CV is too specific to the telecoms industry.

The thing I hate most is I can't choose the location where I would like to go because the position is too specific.

The action is placed more or less in the present; the sets, by Richard Peduzzi, suggest a grand bourgeois home, but nothing is too specific.

Despite wide reporting that Facebook was working on a "dislike" button in September, it seems company boss Mark Zuckerberg has decided that a binary choice of like and dislike is too specific.

Their voices will rise in pitch, and then the inevitable question, "Where?" For such newcomers, I have discovered, no answer is too specific: "Downtown" or "the East Side" will simply trigger another "Where?" It is not as if they want to send my parents a fruit basket, but I surrender to their curiosity: "20th Street," I tell them, "between Second and Third Avenues".

When "Our Town" was filmed (with Martha Scott, repeating her stage role of Emily and nominated for an Oscar, and William Holden as George, in one of his earliest roles), the movie that emerged proved to be an unfortunate hybrid — film is too specific, too concrete, to adjust for "Our Town" 's folksy abstractions.

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Is it not blindingly obvious that the first two criteria are too specific while the third is hopelessly imprecise?

That was too specific.

It's being too specific".

Why not? "It's too specific".

Forget plan; that's too specific.

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