Sentence examples for overly inquisitive from inspiring English sources

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(Luckily for careless employees of galleries and shipping companies, not to mention overly inquisitive visitors to collectors' homes, Scheidemann's work does not extend to forensics).

Each of the 27 tables has been assigned a topic, and an expert will patiently answer questions from the underinformed and the overly inquisitive.

Just look at Regina Giddens and all the drama that Lillian Hellman forces her to cope with in her best-known play, "The Little Foxes": surly, disobedient servants; conniving brothers; a ditzy sister-in-law who drinks too much; an overly inquisitive daughter.

"I said, 'I don't exactly have a boyfriend, but I've been seeing someone for four years now.' She was very polite about it, not nasty or overly inquisitive, and she said, 'Well, whatever makes you happy.' " It helps, experts say, that people who have come out so far are already well established in their careers and respected by their colleagues.

Haut said he was never an overly inquisitive person, and didn't talk much about any of this to anyone.

Because of his excellent connections, Vizzini also became the 'king' of the rampant post-war black market and arranged to get Villalba's overly inquisitive police chief killed.

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He even got sucked in when a tear-up looked like erupting, like an overly-inquisitive drunkard drawn – inexorably - to within dangerously close quarters of a pub fight.

"Why aren't you married?" Good question, Mr. Overly-Inquisitive-Cab-Driver.

I am too inquisitive.

The queen in "The Uncommon Reader" is very much that same woman: not remotely intellectual, but inquisitive and intelligent and quite impatient with overly long-winded or self-indulgent writers.

"An Elf's Story" may look better on your television than it did for me online, but it will still be overly tame and sentimental, of more interest to zealously protective parents than to inquisitive children, who are likely to have signed off even before a massed chorus of elves sings and dances a number called "Extravaganzalorious".

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