Sentence examples for overly defensive from inspiring English sources

Maybe that sounds overly defensive.

Maybe management is becoming overly defensive.

Can you protect yourself without seeming overly defensive or childish?

"It might seem like I'm being overly defensive.

"Avoid profanity as it will only make you look aggressive and overly defensive," Kerr advises.

Too often, we have been overly defensive and dismissive of criticism.

Such disturbing realities can easily make one overly defensive in reactions to outside portrayals of Africa.

Santana, like Parreira, is Brazilian, but he has been criticized for playing an overly defensive style.

If he sounds overly defensive about Larkin then maybe it is because he is so openly, if judiciously, generous elsewhere.

We publish corrections and editor's notes, and try hard not to be overly defensive when our work is challenged.

It must not be overly-defensive in questioning the guiding principles to which it has often laid claim.