overexplained

We live in a time and culture where everything is overexplained, overexamined, before, during, and after, and I think here's an opportunity -- because God knows it doesn't need the publicity -- to just leave it alone.

Harry Potter And The Mystery Of Why Alan Rickman Still Won’t Talk Snape » MTV Movies Blog 2008

And now I've done and overexplained the whole thing... han

An Official Image of Jonah Hex | /Film 2009

With the Hemingway/Kipling bias always on display, Orwell's every act is overexplained with a virtual claim on clairvoyance, right up to the moment of his death, when "he wasn't able to ring for a nurse and no one heard his strangled cry for help."

George Orwell FAQ - George Orwell: The Chestnut Tree Cafe 2003

It's funny, because I always thought NPR reviews overexplained rock music.

NPR : Too hip for its own good Brian 2004

It's funny, because I always thought NPR reviews overexplained rock music.

Archive 2004-07-01 Brian 2004

And I liked how things weren't overexplained -- I can't exactly remember a specific example, but -- the viewer is shown enough to know what's happening, but not more than you need to know.

readersguide Diary Entry readersguide 2003

Photos and four-by-six-foot schematic drawings were displayed and overexplained; cnme-scene locations were visited and revisited on the eerie charts that dom. inated the trial's first week.

Along Came a Spider Patterson, James, 1947- 1993

This double and overexplained message bothered Anna: Did Don want to go or not?

Living with the Passive—Aggressive Man Ph.D. Scott Wetzler 1992

This double and overexplained message bothered Anna: Did Don want to go or not?

Living with the Passive—Aggressive Man Ph.D. Scott Wetzler 1992

Which is preferable to an overexplained, neatly encapsulated cliche.

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