Word: overfond
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...they measure out their old age in rocking chairs and the stale tea of memory. Author White's notion that destiny plays with marked cards is scarcely fresh, but Stan and even Amy play the losing game with stubborn dignity, unlike their children. Author White is overfond of the eye-stopping metaphor ("She was brushed in sad gusts by the branches of the music"), but at his best, he makes long-suffering Stan at least as poignant as Markham's Man with the Hoe. Stan's mute wisdom is in knowing that endurance is all. Author White...
...however excessive and overspecial the play may be in clawing its way toward the good life, a fair part of it has urgency and distinction. Its black-bordered script dignifies a Broadway overfond of greeting cards - a Broadway that itself recoils from rooms in which anyone has died...
Mark Clark is a proud and ambitious man; almost all good generals are. His enemies and critics say also that he is impulsive and overfond of publicity. In part these opinions are a recollection of the brash young general, enamored with cloak & dagger stuff, that Clark was ten years ago but is no longer; in part these opinions reflect the nervousness of Europeans, especially the British, when the U.S. puts any forceful man in the Far East. It so happens that the U.S. needs an aggressive, clearheaded and self-confident man in Tokyo-and Mark Clark is just that...
...Texas gets its 65-minute message across without gunplay. The hero, a rancher named Jim Tyler, is a pleasure-loving lad, overfond of broncho-riding, cattle, land and oil. His sister Kay has been converted at a Billy Graham prayer meeting, and she tries to get Jim to see the light. It's no use, until he gets a bad spill from a broncho and has to go to the hospital...
...been a reckless and mischievous youth somewhat overfond of the bottle. On his graduation from Rangoon University in 1929, he became a devout Buddhist. Later he joined the Thakins (masters), a party of young intellectuals dedicated to throwing the British out of Burma. A student of Marx, Dale Carnegie, Bernarr Macfadden and Havelock Ellis, he also" dabbled in yoga. In 1939, as co-founder of a book club with presently jailed Communist Leaders Thakin Soe and Thein Pe, he translated into Burmese How to Win Friends and Influence People...