Sentence examples for overkill with from inspiring English sources

Would beans be overkill with the hominy?

But prosecutors should avoid overkill with fat-fingered users of PCs and Macs.

Overkill with nitrate fertilisers (which are also a source of greenhouse gases) appears partly responsible.

Like Kramer, Murphy is a groundbreaker, a devotee of overkill with a streak of sentimentality.

But critics say it is overkill, with little thought given to realism.

"Why are they doing such overkill with these guys?" asked Stuart Blumstein, Mr. Petrelis's lawyer, who maintains his client's innocence.

Laziness mingles with overkill, violence with mawkishness: most of the characters weep at the slightest provocation, but heads are beaten, burned, and sheared off by passing subway trains.

Madonna turned to messages: a save-the-world video that torpedoed its good intentions with overkill, juxtaposing John McCain with Hitler and Barack Obama with Gandhi.

The idea was to enact a sort of reverse face-lift, not an augmentation but a paring down: out with the ottocento overkill; in with pale walls and stark lacquered wood.

Manifest Destiny also involved applying parody decals to missiles at California military bases, and in response to criticism of Obama's failure to wear a flag lapel pin during his run for election, a flag pin with 198 stars (the extras are inspired by the bombast and overkill associated with the overt nationalism of "flag-sucking cocksuckers," he explains).

Overkill, bursting with nerves.