Sentence examples for tendency to overwrite from inspiring English sources
Elliot is not a stylist, but his prose is clear, notwithstanding a tendency to overwrite.
Unfortunately, when King gets her hands on a hot cause, she also can't resist the tendency to overwrite.
Shriver's tendency to overwrite doesn't help her persuade the reader to look again at the question of motherhood and how prepared most women are for it.
Cuckoo Song is not without its bum notes, and Hardinge has an exasperating tendency to overwrite, but in a weird sort of way it only adds to the novel's charm.
Rereading the novel this summer, in Greece again for a friend's wedding, I notice a slight tendency to overwrite (Durrell refers to tortoises as "the shelled owners of the hills").
As this passage indicates, Erdrich suffers from an addiction to hyperbole and a tendency to overwrite: if there is a choice between a spare way of expressing something and an ornate one, she will usually go for the ornate.
Books are much harder to overwrite with a different message.
"Yet nothing particularly threatens to overwrite the old resonances.
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