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over-explain

I was kind of glad that they didn't try to overexplain it.

He likes to overexplain everything, so it's perfect for him."

The wall labels overexplain, which has the effect of precluding individual experience.

The script generally doesn't overexplain, and neither does he.

You've got to be, you know, happy within your own skin and not worry too much, not try to overexplain or explain anything."

"The counselors say don't tell her yet," he says, "don't overexplain."

"The biggest mistake you can make is to overexplain or overpresent, assuming that he hasn't read up on the issue," a colleague said.

"Rain Dance" is filled with a quiet anger that erupts a few times too many from the urge to overexplain itself.

Still, they decided not to overexplain to Ms. Stritch.

But she tends to overexplain metaphors and morals that would be more resonant without the footnotes.

Nowhere in this, his fourth novel, does Elliott either overexplain or depict gratuitous brutality.

But the apartment felt right, with tons of light, spacious rooms, a sizable kitchen and no doorman to whom to overexplain yourself.

I also respect that The Stepfather doesn't overexplain or try to justify what Jerry does.

For a long time, Auden's intellectualism, tendency to overexplain, and campy humor put me off the work.

"When you overexplain, it kills the magic," Mr. Wipperfürth said.

These are jumpy attempts to appeal to the uninstructed reader; they go with a tendency to overexplain, and the effect is patronizing.

"Mr. Bojangles" is much more old-fashioned, a star-vehicle, whose tendency to overexplain makes it a little clunky at times.

"Our advice to our clients is overcommunicate, overexplain," Mr. Wamberg said.

Mr. Burnett, the Survivor producer, said he learned this from his program: "Don't overexplain things.

Instead of illustrating ideas, this sporadically interesting show too often delivers exposition, desperate to overexplain rather than risk a moment of misunderstanding.

As a rule Mr. McIntyre creates in the studio without prior preparation, and he prefers not to overexplain.

And at the end there's a wonderful plot twist, but it's dulled by having the characters overexplain it and by a ludicrous death scene.

SERVICE: A tendency to overexplain every dish, but eager and attentive.

And if she tends to overexplain her metaphors, her energy and luminousness lend new vitality to an enduring cliché (2:00).

The pace never has a chance to drag, and the movie never stops dead in its tracks because there's some plot point it feels the need to overexplain.

They will also talk too much, feeling the need to over-explain themselves.

Don't over-explain a situation; get to the point with what's necessary to communicate a clear picture.

"I try to be pleasant and not over-explain," he said.

He is very formal and likes to over-explain things, to the annoyance of others.

She doesn't over-explain the songs either, as some do.

Bucking the current trend to over-explain art, the show leaves viewers on their own.

Conceptual art has been known to over-explain itself.

"Upper management knows nothing about design, so they have designers over-explain and over-simplify," he said.

Leonard knew it would be a juggling act to not over-explain his characters while giving an audience enough information to grab onto.

Already that has made for a more interesting plot-line, and one which Mitchell has been careful not to over-explain.

Note how the lyrics themselves serve as title-cards which, to an extent, over-explain what is already evident on-screen.

Extremely proud of her unlikely heritage, she feels personally compelled to over-explain every chance she gets.

Scafaria, making her directorial debut, doesn’t over-explain in her screenplay.

Santorum, he said, "tends to over-explain sometimes."

They over-explain.

And in this corner, the defending champion, an incumbent president with a tendency to over-explain and the emotional temperature of a sea cow.

It's easy to over-explain yourself, and it's not really the words you say -- it's about the energy you give off.

"Don't over-explain," he said.

The Force Awakens producer also stressed that Han Solo's movie wouldn't over-explain the mysteries of the beloved character.

Suboptimal investment decisions have, for example, been linked to overconfidence in knowledge judgments, the tendency to over-explain chance events, and the tendency to substitute affective valence for thought.

Most children's movies tend to over-explain and tell audiences how they should think and feel, but Jonze's film stands apart, said O'Hara, who provides the voice of Judith.

Men feel perfectly comfortable slathering their chests in greasepaint and screaming like half-naked ninnies at football games, but women too often over-explain their passions, apologizing for being too girly or liking something too trashy.

"If you begin to feel the need to over-explain your decisions by compromising sensitive management-level information to reason with your team or to justify your choices, your potency as a leader fails," says executive life coach Stephanie Somanchi.

Poets read their poems in all kinds of styles: those who are hunched and intense or relaxed and conversational, or those who hector or lecture their audience, or over-explain or apologise, or crack gags to puncture the slightly tense silence that descends in each poem's wake.