Sentence examples for needlessly heavy from inspiring English sources

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That placed a needlessly heavy burden on the Cancún meeting.

"The S.U.V.'s on the road today," she said, "are needlessly heavy and very aggressive".

John Stones put in a poor display at centre-half – his distribution particularly worrying with a needlessly heavy back pass leading to Watford's equaliser – while Phil Jagielka and Ross Barkley will undergo tests for respective hamstring and knee injuries.

A story has so much less time to accomplish its thematic work that the temptation to deploy an italicized moral is usually greater than in the more capacious novel; yet MacLeod betrays a certain anxiety about the size of this new expanse he has to govern, and he winds up policing some of its pages with a needlessly heavy hand.

Considering there was only a crowd of around 500, police presence was almost needlessly heavy.

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These very wealthy friends of the Bush family, one even nicknamed "Mr. Swift Boat," do some needlessly heavy-handed advocacy for the greatness of commerce and Texas-style capitalism.

They're also needlessly big and heavy, which feels like a statement, a way of saying "I love trance!".

And the vocal writing is needlessly punishing.

Sound needlessly complicated?

Diane Paulus's projection-heavy staging is needlessly kinetic, and the script can't make up its mind as to whether it's about Matthews's journey of self-discovery or the less solipsistic struggles of the African characters.

By contrast, Falcao's brilliance was matched with ruthless efficiency and he ensured Amorebieta paid the heaviest price for needlessly conceding possession on the edge of the box 11 minutes from the break.

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