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Too clean, for starters.
A little too clean, for my taste.
"Now it's a bit too clean for me.
"San Antonio," Graham Greene wrote in 1939, "is more Mexican than American -- not quite genuine Mexican (it is far too clean for that) but picture-postcard Mexican".
Also: the balalaika sing-song in ye olde worlde izba (log house) was a bit too clean for its own good, in both psychological and hygienic terms.
Soon a detailed blogpost appeared dismissing Gattarov and Burmatov's proud reports as fake: their clothes looked far too clean for a messy operation like forest firefighting, and the area in question wasn't even on fire.
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The 1994-96 "Sheffield Gold" campgain was set in a steel foundry: a nod to the city's heritage, although it was filmed in the Czech Republic because Sheffield's own foundries were considered to be too clean and automated for the desired gritty and industrial effect.
However, Azuma has been criticized for creating characters that are "too clean, too perfectly functional," for overusing "outrageous expressions and reactions," and for dragging out jokes too long.
And yet that voice, perhaps too clean and pretty, made for unremarkable records that left little impact.
He was originally turned down for the role by the director, Henry Hathaway, who told him that he was too clean cut and intellectual for the part.
Having seen him as a posh Brit in The Forsyte Saga, you would expect him to be too clean-cut for this sort of thing, but he is remarkably convincing.
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