Sentence examples for overly neat from inspiring English sources
I sympathize with office workers who have had overly neat or messy officemates.
He warned collectors to watch out for overly neat drilling marks, flat bases, cute pronged tails and artificial stains caused by vinegar, peat moss and hydrochloric acid.
Lone Scherfig's One Day, starring Anne Hathaway (seriously miscast), was an overly neat adaptation of David Nicholls's novel about a couple's slow journey from flirtation to commitment.
Sensing perhaps that she's lollygagging, Atkinson sprints for the last 75 pages, delivering a rushed, overly neat ending that, while cleanly tying up the big threads, leaves many questions about the characters and their futures unanswered.
There is even something overly neat about using Britain's 1979 "winter of discontent" as a starting point, since, although deriving from Richard III, it was simply a handy catchphrase deployed by the right-wing press.
Moreover, the making of this particular film parallels the seemingly anarchic form of the book and mirrors the ideas it contains about the chaos of existence, as well as Sterne's notion that the novels by Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding that he was mocking were overly neat in their presentation of life and the workings of the mind.
The writers and directors of the film do a great job setting up Allyson's character as an overly concerned "neat freak".
