There was a palpable difference between the two; whereas the obsessions of Baker's (adult) narrator - about wing-flap milk cartons, and moving staircases - seemed genuinely compulsive, and to have grown out of a lifetime of looking, Larsen's seem too often the kind of thing that you might expect a prodigy could become hooked on in this kind of book.
Yet, too often, this kind of writing about Africa has been at a distance, with the directive for "expert opinion" and "objectivity" stripping narratives of the blood and tears that make for truly remarkable storytelling.
And yet this is perhaps the way of this team, with its split formation – too often a kind of 4-0-6 – and its weight toward the attacking end of things.
"And actually, too often, people kind of say: 'Oh well, you know, what do you expect from somewhere like Walthamstow?' and I say: 'I expect everything.' "There could be a kid in Walthamstow who could cure cancer, given the right opportunities," she adds, pointing out that "somebody from Walthamstow [Ron McKenzie] designed the equipment that enabled them to film the moon landings".
All too often, you kind of think about a lot of these companies that existed before us -- they get sold to a larger company.
Too often these kinds of novelty devices are produced by companies too focused on a single underlying technology to get the rest of the phone right.
TAOS, N. M., is viewed too often as a kind of Southwestern theme village.
For Hollinghurst also pulls in the elbows of his prose and too often produces a kind of polite professionalized filler.
They are widely admired but too often almost a kind of guilty pleasure, even as the quality of their work demands a rewriting of the 20th-century canon.
In his view statistical techniques too often determine what kind of research political scientists do, pushing them further into narrow specializations cut off from real-world concerns.
