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- verb To
explain at unnecessary length or in too much detail.
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Examples
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I was thinking about what SF writers could learn from West Wing, and one of the big ones is to trust your audience to buy into fiction itself, and do not overexplain.
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They overexplain with "causes" of things that can't be checked.
Christopher Lydon: Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The "Fragility" Crisis is Just Begun 2010
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They overexplain with "causes" of things that can't be checked.
Christopher Lydon: Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The 'Fragility' Crisis Is Just Begun 2010
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But more often than not, the best voice is the quiet, stern, spare voice that doesn't overexplain or defend, but just communicates in a nonnegotiable way that this current behavior is "unacceptable."
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Though I would say that the above is NOT indicative of YA, as good YA books do not overexplain things just because their audience is younger.
The Daily: May 6, 2010 Jeff C 2010
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But more often than not, the best voice is the quiet, stern, spare voice that doesn't overexplain or defend, but just communicates in a nonnegotiable way that this current behavior is "unacceptable."
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Though I would say that the above is NOT indicative of YA, as good YA books do not overexplain things just because their audience is younger.
Archive 2010-05-01 Jeff C 2010
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You only overexplain if you feel the need to justify your actions and if you have been made to feel guilty.
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You only overexplain if you feel the need to justify your actions and if you have been made to feel guilty.
War Does Not Sell 2008
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Many of them condescendingly put down I. D.ers, calling them ignorant, then overexplain why evolution shouldn't be questioned.
Joel Keller: Who's the Dodo? The Evolution and I.D. Debate at the TFF 2008
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