Sentence examples for overly close to from inspiring English sources

It's full of scrapes and quavers, and capable of both Fiona Apple's acidity and Feist's suppleness (though sometimes she's overly close to Feist).

There, he earned praise for bringing down electricity prices, as well as criticism for being overly close to his political patrons.

"I always loved my parents but I was never overly close to them," Baseman explained.

Family members said they were not "overly close" to the 29-year-old woman who had been born in Pakistan and raised in Saudi Arabia.

There are whispers that, with its starting budget of £17.9m, it is overly bureaucratic, too close to the Home Office and dominated by a few big personalities.

I find them curiously old-fashioned, overly cinematic, and all too close to self-parody.

State medical boards are often hamstrung by severely limited budgets or overly close ties to a state's medical establishment, he said, and the upshot is that boards take serious disciplinary actions against far too few bad doctors.

In one of the show's few moments of connection — as opposed to overly close resemblance — the intensity of Mr. McMillan self-portrait is expanded on by a work across the gallery, Matthew Day Jackson's large-scale, flamboyantly inlaid image of a markedly visionary, sexually ambiguous face.

Honda said its brake recall could be traced to a brake-shift interlock part that was not manufactured properly, with overly close tolerances that "are susceptible to increased friction when the parts contract at low temperatures".

Discuss why there is anxiety about your overly close relationship and gently show why things need to change to ensure that your relationship will stay strong.

She might not be overly alarmed, being close to a hundred years of age herself and the one who was supposed to be dying, though she never did.