Sentence examples for overly intent on from inspiring English sources

But in long scenes Mr. Cilluffo may have been overly intent on honoring tradition.

Chen is often overly intent on showing the monotonous intricacies of Chinese bureaucracy, but the book's most vivid moments are offbeat and ridiculous, as when Chen's summer job as a tour guide for the "fairy-tale giants" of a visiting American N.B.A. team had him scrambling to make sure Kareem Abdul-Jabbar kept up with the group.

Although "The Money and the Power" offers vivid portraits of some of the fascinating people who have played a role in Las Vegas's short, electric history -- including Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Senator Pat McCarran, Gov. Paul Laxalt, Jimmy Hoffa and Steve Wynn -- the authors are overly intent on turning all their subjects into representative men.

I'm too intent on my spelling".

Don't look overly intent in spending time with your twin.

Similarly, Sartre describes an overly zealous waiter, so self-consciously intent on doing everything just right that he winds up as much pretending to be a waiter as being one.

He is intent on avoiding another one.

Despite complaints from the school-reform movement in California and others, the State Board of Education appears intent on going ahead with an overly complicated, color-coded system for judging public-school performance and progress.

Sadly, none is this is overly surprising on one level.

The BKR served mostly as a police organisation, partly because the political leadership were intent on using diplomacy to garner international recognition of the new country and partly to avoid appearing overly aggressive to the Japanese forces still in the archipelago.

The political right seems intent on telling us that "free markets" will return us to the American Dream, even though it is overly free markets that created much of the current trouble for that American Dream.