Sentence examples for overelaborated from inspiring English sources

After a surging run that had Bournemouth backpedalling, however, the striker overelaborated and, when Gil took over, he could find only the side-netting.

Privately — well, that is a matter of opinion; some of my friends think that when relating an event or piece of news, I am inclined to alter and overelaborate.

If Doerr chooses to overelaborate his metaphors, it's perhaps because he doesn't want us to waste time figuring them out ourselves: they're here, they're what they are, let's carry on.

Time and again, England ruined promising situations by overelaborating.

Without overelaborating Rodgers' harmonies or interfering with the tunes themselves, Kostal added a patina of Hollywood polish to the score that greatly enriches our listening experience.

Even Hazard could not haul them from their malaise, the Belgian overelaborating in his desperation to make an impact.

Perhaps it is overelaborating that he dry-humps a mattress while demanding to know if "there is any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts?" Not in nature, perhaps.

In a piece called "Self-Portrait," he says of himself: "Some of my friends think that when relating an event or piece of news, I am inclined to alter or overelaborate.

The rhetorical basis of his training and interest is reflected throughout his works, the chief concern of which is form, but his style is affected, excessive, overelaborate, and diffuse.

During the colony's second summer, President Ratcliffe ordered the construction of an overelaborate capitol building.

Chesterton hid the depth of his religious convictions, while Borges facetiously presented his prodigious erudition and indulged in overelaborate and flowery prose.