Sentence examples for overly firm from inspiring English sources

The crumb cheesecake, however, was overly firm and lacked the desired lush, creamy texture.

The front seats are luxuriously constructed and supportive, but are overly firm.

It felt neither floaty, like American luxury sedans of that time, nor overly firm, like some older German models.

Shortly after commanding Steve to clear out, Paul receives a visit from the firm's most valuable novelist, Vanessa Finn Adams (Rosie Perez), who is displeased at Paul's overly firm edit on her latest opus.

But a couple of starters needed more compatible components: overly firm chickpeas did nothing for a sour eggplant salad; and indifferent garbanzos in a watery liquid accompanied the calamari, which showed no sign of a promised grilling.

There are three house-made desserts: an overly firm flan, an ordinary rice pudding and a winner called "the combination" — rice pudding topped with a jelly made from purple corn.

Apple, not really known as an overly acquisitive firm, is richer than Croesus.

The firm is overly reliant on selling sport-utility vehicles, but drivers have lost enthusiasm for the gas-guzzlers as petrol prices rise.

Those sorts of discrepancies may feed suspicions that financial firms are overly optimistic about their businesses.

The European Commission and Britain's government also expressed concern.Yet Russia need not worry overly about foreign oil firms.

On the other hand, he said, he felt "relatively secure" because the San Francisco Bay Area firms were overly dependent on the technology industries.