First, they try to please too many constituencies.
After all, he had a game to play and a coach to please, too.
And no rat race, please — too much ambition makes me jumpy.
He is seen as too stiff, too eager to please, too caught up in policy gobbledygook to excite voters.
But for all its wild, inventive energy, the real problem with Kantor's production is that it wants to dazzle and please too much.
It will please, too, those who think interest-rate swap rates a better benchmark than Treasuries for pricing fixed-income securities.The biggest gripe will come from insurance companies and pension funds with long-term liabilities especially defined-benefit pension plans.
President Morsi has been trying to please too many masters: his own Muslim Brotherhood, the other Islamists who find the Brotherhood not Islamist enough, the Americans, and the deep (or "thick" as the revolution calls it) state.
Over the past six years, the Clinton team has often tried to please too many points of view: it has, for example, bashed Japan and also tried to prop it up; it has advanced trade liberalisation and also retarded it by attaching environmental and labour standards to the process.
The executives, who included Ivan Seidenberg, president and co-chief executive of Verizon Communications; Percy Sutton, chief executive of Inner City Broadcasting and the former Manhattan borough president; and Russell Carson of Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, an investment company, also counseled Mr. Levy against trying to please too many political constituencies.
A story written to please too many people is easy to spot: Its voice is scattered or obtuse.
