An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10.
In Mr. Sarkozy's case, there simply was too much skin — pictures of the president sunbathing next to his bikini babe, or wearing running shorts on the palace steps after a jog.
Garish colours, too much glitter, pictures all over the place and difficult to read fonts are all conductive to an unpleasant experience for the eye and possibly a headache.
If you find that you have to cover too much of the picture, use another piece of paper under the picture and glue the wood to that instead.
"I think minor chords fill in too much of the picture already," Mr. Eno said.
Future performances will show whether the piece is perhaps too illustrative: too much of a picture book and not enough of a story.
Alternatively, you can try an omnidirectional aerial to see if it can pull in signals from both directions without causing too much pixelation (the picture breaking up in blocks).
The ingredients for life the researchers describe, "including energy sources, would have been more available early in Mars' history, but it doesn't take too much imagination to picture a scenario in which the subsurface is habitable today," Michalski said.
Eventually they will blend in too much and your picture might not look as good.
