She had virtually no fashion-world credentials; her look was too bright, too brash, too obvious to win over the avant-garde tastemakers of Paris and Milan.
It is the excuse that Asians are too small, too light, to win in the muscular international game.
Benjamin's literary criticism was too unusual and too uncompromising to win a large audience.
Mainstream politicians are seen to be too self-interested, too keen to win at any cost.
He failed: he had offended too many, and was too exotic to win the votes of the Mexican masses.
"ZDT" is too clinical and, well, too awesome to win Best Picture.
The problem about ending the war in Syria and Iraq is that there is a multitude of players who are too strong to lose but too weak to win.
In short, limited military assistance will be too little to win the war, and too much to lose.
But many Democrats fear that she is not only too powerful not to be nominated but too polarising to win an election.
"I'm too emotional to lose, and I'm too emotional to win".
