overkill

1 Some might regard that — or her collection of 80 elaborate evening gowns and many more cocktail dresses and lunch looks — as overkill.

2 But that clash of the monsters takes its story very seriously, whereas this one revels in overkill and lumbers into ridiculousness in every way imaginable from the start.

3 The tanks are overkill for just the five of us.

4 That Ms. Parker’s book is so seriously good seems like overkill.

5 At the risk of overkill, mention has to be made of the dialogue, the most noticeable element of the troweled-on swing-era atmosphere.

6 But he was not into overkill, and there was nothing bloodthirsty about his hunting habits.

7 If pumpkin pie is on the menu, doubling down with a spiced pumpkin soup to start might seem like overkill, but it’s also an opportunity to showcase the versatility of winter squash.

8 Sounding gruff as Wotan — a role he shared last year with another singer — and acting with overkill, even by this staging’s standards, the bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny settled in as a meditative, wry Wanderer in “Siegfried.”

9 I disagree - I thought the 3 Godfather references were overkill and bad writing.

10 It can be “overkill,” she says, and you still have to find a place to keep the big binders.

11 What I don't support is the overkill, the illiberal clamour for outlawing her, rather than persuading and pressuring Mohan and Rupert Murdoch to call time on her outdated presence.

12 This album cover aesthetic can be overkill for the already theatrical rigor of these musical forms.

13 You might read it and think that it’s overkill to bake the chicken with the skin on when it’s going to be padded anyway with a thick coating of bread crumbs.

14 It’s reasonable, however — in fact, crucial — to consider some different questions: those involving fairness, focus and overkill.

15 With their needs so flat, the extra dimension of song seems like overkill.

16 These guys need nine lives, as much as they’ve been overkilled.

17 It’s the sort of well-intentioned independent effort that can make criticism feel like overkill.

18 Mr. Wain is going for comedy overkill with a vengeance.

19 The hunting theme of the lodge’s decor is literally overkill.

20 I would say that the resurrected platoon of Russian P.O.W.’s is overkill, but isn’t that what zombie movies are all about?

1 过多

overmany unlimited excessive stiff redundant superfluous profuse overmuch overfull superabundant overflow plethora satiety overage spillover overplus redundance nimiety superabound

2 矫枉过正

hypercorrect overcorrection hypercorrection overcorrect bend over backward

3 多此一举

gild the lily carry coals to Newcastle take coals to Newcastle

4 过份

exorbitant overblown extortionate unmerciful

5 过分行为

excess

6 过度

over hard fancy unlimited excessive ultra unreasonable lavish undue extravagant exorbitant inordinate unconscionable immodest intemperate exceeding immoderate deuced overabundantly overly excessively unduly unreasonably devilish extravagantly exorbitantly overmuch trop troppo excess plethora surfeit intemperance exorbitance nimiety immoderacy super- carry to excess take too far beyond the mark overshoot the mark overstep the mark in excess to excess

7 过分

in excess extreme excessive unreasonable undue obsessive extravagant exaggerated extortionate overweening OTT much extravagance overstep overstep the mark to a fault to excess too-too ultra lavish towering appalling intolerable exalted exorbitant wanton sanguinary unmerciful full heavy super thick bloody desperately unduly inordinacy overmuch bellyful overreach supercharge talk thirteen to the doz more than one can help to kill to heaven into the ground