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  • But the second installation that spurts bright paint blobs from ceiling to floor is too resonant of Damien Hirst's too-cute "spin" paintings, and the scratched color photographs of gorgeous skies are too faintly remindful of Mr. Hodges's early, startling curtains.

    Feats of Rock, Paint & Clay Peter Plagens 2011

  • Looking back, this too-cute love song seems like a reaction against the turbulence of the times.

    Grammy's top song not always in tune 2010

  • The drinks' names are a too-cute nod to pop culture, but they go down easy.

    Supper Clubs' Spirit 2011

  • "Pray," though — an account of her tenure at an ashram in India — is a disaster; in a book hailed for its authenticity, Gilbert's attempts at penetrating the spiritual experience are clumsy and too-cute.

    Youth and Prayer 2010

  • The sight of the too-cute guy standing in the parking lot made us stop in our tracks.

    Drama Queens ReShonda Tate Billingsley 2010

  • Surely, they'll enjoy the too-cute "Box of Rocks," about a tattletale who recommends to Santa the perfect gift for her brother who's been "bad a lots."

    Michael Bialas: A Winter Sugarland: Country's Merry (Christmas) Melodies 2009

  • Puccini for Beginners is insistently facetious - filled with stylistic digressions such as subtitles that comically comment on the characters, freeze-frames that allow for jokey voice-over asides and other too-cute formal devices.

    GreenCine Daily: Interview. Maria Maggenti. 2007

  • Now we find Joe McCarthy reincarnated -- much to his delight, one must assume -- underneath the smeary lipstick and too-cute blush of The Queen of the Know-Nothings, Sarah Palin.

    John Eskow: The Secret Face of Sarah Palin 2008

  • Maybe it was coming to Alias for the first time in 2007, after I'd gotten fed up by Bendis's too-cute conversational style and swarms of little talking head panels, but I really didn't care for it when I read it last year.

    Comics You Should Own flashback – Alias | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • Unfortunately, Mr. Albee has put his portrait of the artist in a too-cute frame, informing us at the outset that it is being conducted posthumously: "I've never interviewed someone who is dead before."

    A 'Lion' Roars in Chicago 2008

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