"too down to" is not a phrase used in written English.
It would be more correct to use "too downhearted" or "too discouraged". For example, "John was feeling too downhearted to go to work today."
Re "Out of Work, and Too Down to Search On" (front page, Sept. 7) struck a chord with me.
So go easy on Eve, the personable star from Philadelphia who may be too down to earth to be a great rapper.
And he tries to look the part, too, down to barrio-chic details like his footwear, a pair of Nike Cortez track shoes, and the 8-ball tattoo on his forearm.
WEEK IN REVIEW, PAGE 9 FEELING TOO DOWN TO RISE UP Americans, we're told, are boiling over with rage about the economic crisis, but why haven't there been public protests or even riots?
If you are not familiar with his work, it is at a great loss to you and probably only because he is far too down to earth to let you know that his work is truly a must see!
When we met at her London publisher's office on the day of the novel's publication, the 64- year-old seemed too down-to-earth to have created this year's left-field Man Booker hit.
Armstrong's attitude to his cancer is quasi-religious - "the most important and shaping event in my life" - but the account of his diagnosis and treatment is almost too down-to-earth.
And everyone got on with her, to such a degree that even Maria Callas rushed to congratulate her in her dressing-room after one "Lucia".She was much too down-to-earth to be superstitious, but two little totems she kept close.
Carl Houseman, the Nation County sheriff's deputy who sweeps up the messes in this series, is too down-to-earth sensible in CODE SIXTY-ONE (Doubleday, $23.95) to fall for a woman's story that a vampire tried to fly in her window.
Last year in Munich I won almost everything but that, too, was down to the players.
Somewhere at the bottom, too far down to see, the cabin awaited.
