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With the help of a batty alien chemist, an offbeat teen actor must step out of his overidealistic (lazy?) shadow and into the spotlight to save humanity from genetic enslavement.
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– Not feeling the verb phrase “must step out of his overidealistic (lazy?) shadow and into the spotlight” … I think the wordplay with shadow and spotlight is sort of awkward.
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With the help of a batty alien chemist, an offbeat teen actor must step out of his overidealistic (lazy?) shadow and into the spotlight to save humanity from genetic enslavement.
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"From what he had learned about his dad, he was overidealistic, not practical, and that ended up in his not achieving anything effectively," says Jerry Kellman, Obama's community-organizing boss in Chicago.
On His Own 2008
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"I suppose you think I'm being stupid -- overidealistic, naively romantic," she flung at him defiantly, ignoring the instinct that told her that what she was doing was somehow dangerous.
Unwanted Wedding Jordan, Penny 1995
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My project was an overidealistic one, I finally realized (and, gritting my teeth, went back to more traditional grading): I wanted to
Signifying Nothing 2009
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