Regan submitted a 2,200-word 2,200-wordhe-doth-protest-too-much essay to the New York Times.
In hindsight, it seems that a jittery market, fed in part by the press, read too much into the essay.
If the novels were too much invaded by the essay, his essays were insufficiently invaded by the novel, which is a soul-searching instrument, a register of the mind's adventures, not of the memory's contents.
Spending too much time on this essay (usually written first) could mean running out of time on the last essay.
One is: you cannot attach too much emotion to any particular essay; tomorrow is another day, another piece, another opportunity to write it better.
If the regional metaphors in this essay were too much, I can only apologize for being too thrilled with the art scene blossoming in my favorite city in the world to write a stuffy essay about the experience.
You might find that you didn't study correctly, or you didn't read the directions right, or you added too much extraneous material to your essay or presentation.
The rewards grow thinner toward the back of the book, with some of the essays sounding too much like publicity pieces for particular vehicles and O'Rourke mixing in political jibes that break the mood.
In 2003, in an essay called "Inequality, Too Much of a Good Thing" Mr. Krueger proposed that "societies must strike a balance between the beneficial incentive effects of inequality and the harmful welfare-decreasing effects of inequality".
Not to cite historical materials too much, but it reminds me of another old essay, this by a man named Abraham Flexner in 1939, called "The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge".
Essays, in his view, focus too much on the self.
