over-egging

Often the over-egging and the out-of-character are part of the same problem.

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But Longinus is, I think, pointing here to a distinct flaw in the nature of the figurative substance itself, a grandiosity that fails to achieve the sublime by over-egging the pudding in terms of the actual notation.

On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010

Larry clearly enjoyed cuddling the inventor's overweight wife and pretending he was her boyfriend to impress a hostile acquaintance, outrageously over-egging the pudding by telling him: I'm going to marry her if she'll have me.

Curb your Enthusiasm – season eight, episode eight 2011

But Longinus is, I think, pointing here to a distinct flaw in the nature of the figurative substance itself, a grandiosity that fails to achieve the sublime by over-egging the pudding in terms of the actual notation.

Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010

On the other hand, it is this resolute over-egging of the pudding that gives "The House of Silk" its charm: a kind of constant creative exuberance, born of a suspicion that unless every single element of the Holmes legend can be brought to the feast, the story is bound to fall flat.

The Game Is Always Afoot D.J. Taylor 2011

I mean, saying 'future' is over-egging the pudding.

Moombahton, Nu-Jungle, Future Garage? Let Hervé explain 2011

There are a few soggy moments – too many elegiac sentences starting with "And" – and some over-egging of phrases, as in "the poisonous innocence of the moon tonight".

The Empty Family by Colm Tóibín – Review Hermione Lee 2010

But there's a risk, particularly in fiction, of over-egging the fantastical until it becomes tiresome.

The Coincidence Engine by Sam Leith – review 2011

Some of his work might justify the word "spy" in Shulman's subtitle, though "assassin" is surely over-egging it.

The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt by Nicola Shulman - review 2011

This is the Daily Post over-egging things quite considerably.

Hain puts Anglesey first 2009