Sentence examples similar to lingered excessively from inspiring English sources

Do not allow painful feelings to linger excessively, but do not attempt to ignore them either.

For my taste McQueen lingers too long on scenes of brutal floggings and assaults (though the sex is not tastelessly explicit), which may be what white viewers need to be reminded of – except excessively explicit violence is a staple of many modern films, where the old saying that "less is more" has long been forgotten.

Sentimentality – combined with scenes of excessively lingering brutality – are among the great cinema vices of our times, especially among directors who purport to be grim realists.

It lingered.

Nothing lingered.

Summer lingered.

They lingered.

Visitors lingered.

Nobody lingered.

But it lingered, and lingered.

"So not excessively excessive.