Sentence examples for needlessly fixed from inspiring English sources
Finn is an intelligent man but there is a suspicion he has been too receptive to influence, that a bowler who was not really broken – Finn was dropped most recently after taking 40 wickets in his past 11 Test matches – has been broken by being needlessly fixed many times over.
The attempt to needlessly fix a flaw brings to mind a short story by Hawthorne, "The Birthmark," in which a scientist becomes obsessed with removing a mark from the face of his otherwise lovely wife.
The Senator called on the government to reinstate bankruptcy protections on student loans and allow loans to be refinanced — as is common practice with home mortgages — when interest rates drop so that borrowing students would not be locked into a needlessly high fixed interest rate for life — and wind up paying thousands of dollars in extraneous costs.
No-one is saying it's going to be easy but until the problems are fixed, patients are suffering needlessly.
The U.S. corporate tax system is needlessly complex, dysfunctional and needs to be fixed.
LAST fall, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced plans to stay open late on Friday and Saturday evenings instead of Tuesdays, it seemed that another well-established tradition was being needlessly tinkered with; it wasn't broken, so why fix it?
I've ordered a government-wide review, and if there are rules on the books that are needlessly stifling job creation and economic growth, we will fix them.
Someone else wrote: "Don't like it... if it ain't broke don't fix it," while another web user described the site as "needlessly chaotic and glitzy".
Hearst's last attempt at fixing it, the hiring of Ms. Betts from Vogue, resulted in a magazine that Hearst executives viewed as needlessly austere.
This is needlessly complicated.
