Word: belabor
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...also bears mentioning that Diary doesn’t belabor its viewers with a gratuitous sex scene; you know Elise’s and Moore’s characters love each other because they act like people in love, not because you see them writhing in soft-focus. If nothing else, Perry should receive a special achievement award for making chastity seem sexy again...
...some unfriendly critics continue to belabor us with the name of one single teacher who was a communist, seeking thereby to create the impression or perhaps mistakenly believing that we are a seat for widespread disloyalty,” Pusey said...
...This tale of a monster emerging from the human mind and the international pursuit of a crumbling manuscript closely follows the canons of the 19th century Gothic novel. Yet Carey does right not to belabor his debt to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which haunts every page. Carey unfolds his plot in a Chinese-box construction of narration within narration, focusing mostly on Chubb's telling his story to Wode-Douglass in a hotel bar in K.L. It's a convention straight out of a Regency-era chiller: the aged friar revealing the horrid skeletons in the abbey closet...
...Dogs of Babel begins with a death (just like--to belabor the point--The Lovely Bones). Paul Iverson, a 44-year-old linguistics professor, comes home to find that his wife Lexy has fallen from the apple tree in her backyard. Or jumped--he can't tell, and the only witness to her fall is a dog, a large, affectionate Rhodesian Ridgeback named Lorelei. Paul becomes obsessed with finding out how his wife died. He sets out to teach Lorelei to talk so she can tell...
...would expect him to be quite knowingly introducing a bad Saturday Night Live sketch rather than Anouilh's searching parable. Beatrice Kitzinger '03, Caitlin Harrington '03 and Liz Clinkenbeard '01, as Antigone, her sister Ismene, and her nurse, respectively, suffer from a similar problem in their early exchanges: they belabor the irony of remarks about Antigone's future with such self-conscious intensity that the production threatens to become both maudlin and fatally unsubtle...