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At the start of this season Tony Soprano, America's favorite mob boss, was becoming a little too lovable.
Conversely, others charge that Lichtenstein's art is too lovable: too accessible, commercial, art "lite" for the merely acquisitive.
Deola can be snooty, nearsighted and proud, which makes her all the more human and more convincing than if the author had made her too lovable.
Alison Steadman is hilarious but just too lovable, while David Troughton, as the homophobic, racist Wilfred, exhibits the rage of a man who deep down knows he has spent 35 years living a lie.
She is too loving and, perhaps more dangerously, too lovable, the young woman in John Updike's novel, whose father offers her, against her wishes, to the older warrior king he admires.
Hearing about the breakdowns, the two hundred words a day, the fountain pen, one imagines him in his study, toiling away to insure that no woman is too beautiful, no character too lovable, no feeling unalloyed, no dramatic scene unclogged by some side issue, no suspense not undermined by being overplayed.
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One thinks especially of Carson McCullers's too-lovable geeks and Lenny in Of Mice and Men.
But is he also lovable?
Jane Austen may be too likable or lovable for her own good.
To that extent, it is life – and possibly lovable too.
Ms. Birdsong's Garland is lovable, too, if only because she seems to deserve boatloads of sympathy.
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