"quite too often" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to express the idea that something happens more frequently than is desirable or acceptable. For example, "Children who misbehave in class quite too often find themselves in detention."
A shame, then, that the puppets-of-fate narrative never quite takes flight, descending rather too often into pantomime pastiche and broader-than-broad Carry On oompah.
Michael Hulse and Philip Boehm's translation also challenges our patience, for though it is generally quite sound, too often it falls into slack, run-on sentences.
Quite the reverse all too often, these methods lead to cynicism, and cynicism is the enemy of commitment to change.
As a sendup, the book is quite fun, but too often Prose's writing falls victim to the very earnestness that she satirizes.
But while education's impact on poverty is quite clear, we too often overlook the ways poverty and other outside-the-classroom obstacles limit the educational attainment of our students.
We have highlighted a selection of the reviewers' minor comments below, but all, including typos, require attention: 1) To recast with subheadings would likely require some reorganization because the authors move back and forth between experimental-based fact and conjecture quite easily and too often.
Quite the contrary -- too often, writing about the online world lacks emotional punch.
Implicitly, at least, their message is too often quite the opposite: that markets aren't perfect and governments (advised by economists) can be.
The fact that the covers album is now out – with plans to release Tarka's original album this autumn – at least puts a happy endnote of sorts on a life that never could quite stick to one thing, too often distracted, too tempted to wander down unusual corridors.
All too often, there is quite simply no ending to miss.
