Sentence examples for too officious from inspiring English sources

The Soviet system was too officious.

Maybe we shouldn't be too officious in our pursuit of villains.

"Well," Mr. Reagan replied, "I hope it'll remember me on the basis that when I took office, I felt very strongly that our government had grown too officious and imposing too much on the private sector in our society, and that I wanted to see if the American people couldn't get back that pride, and that patriotism, that confidence, that they had in our system.

Mr. Martelly, who campaigned on shaking up the system, saw Mr. Conille as too bureaucratic and officious, while Mr. Conille, who runs the day-to-day operations of government and answers to Parliament, began complying more with its members' demands, at the expense of angering ministers.

Well then, suggested the officious official, Vos would simply have to take along some paying passengers.

But it's also an officious, intimidating place.

Athletes got shouted at by officious security officials and were delayed getting to events because bus drivers got lost.

But although Hay does have a green room for performers, no one would dream of being rude enough to try to gatecrash, eliminating any need for officious security, and thus too the dispiriting suspicion that the real fun is taking place elsewhere.

And Peggy, now full of all kinds of resentments, often played out in petty and officious ways, resents that, too.

(This has been an unlooked-for banner year for cinematic Ruskin watchers: He also makes an appearance, albeit an officious one, in Mike Leigh's "Mr. Turner").

It has begun to realise, too, that his "partner" Valérie Trierweiler is as ghastly, self-important, officious and greedy as Cherie Blair.