Sentence examples for overly worthy from inspiring English sources

It's not overly worthy, or preachy, or sentimental.

Maybe it is weighed down by James Lapine's intricate and overly worthy book.

Some early issues were dry and overly worthy and the punters started to turn away.

It's a shame that … while Red Nose Day is, of course, a good cause, Mary & Martha runs the risk of coming across as a bit sentimentally manipulative or overly worthy.

At MSF we have lots of important things to communicate to people, but sometimes struggle to find ways of telling our stories that are not depressing or overly 'worthy'worthy

I stopped hearing what my family was saying to me - for about two weeks I all but disappeared into my screen, trying to salvage brief, sometimes overly promotional but nevertheless worthy biographies by recasting them in neutral language, and by hastily scouring newspaper databases and Google Books for references that would bulk up their notability quotient.

Unexpectedly, the prince comes out of it better than the government.In his letters, dubbed the "black spider" memos, a reference to his poor penmanship, the prince comes across as worthy, verbose and overly fond of herbal medicine and of the exclamation mark.

A vivid, overly detailed songwriter, Mr. Snider is a worthy antagonist.

(Unless, like my worthy opponent, one is overly influenced by the Brooklyn hipster culture).

Given our rudimentary understanding of these issues, any proposed mechanistic connection to the pathogenesis of gingival hyperplasia in CCB-treated patients would be overly speculative at this time, but worthy of future study.

The approximately 45-minute quartet, which he worked on for a number of years, reveals his tentativeness writing large-scale pieces, although the committed and passionate playing here revealed the worthy kernels embedded in the overly long-winded frame.