overelaboration

Until that point it appeared that West Bromwich Albion would pay for overelaboration in front of goal, but a fourth away win of the campaign eases the pressure on their manager, Roy Hodgson.

Blackburn's year of living dangerously leaves Steve Kean on the brink 2011

Before Henry came on the home crowd had been distracted, a mordant sarcasm about the overelaboration of their play enlivening the bouts of exasperation.

Thierry Henry's second coming gets to the heart of the matter | Rob Bagchi 2012

To Kolodin's eye, the mansion, or castle, evinced an archaic overelaboration of shape and detail; additionally the proportions appeared cramped, the construction disproportionately heavy, the windows too few, too tall and narrow.

Marune: Alastor 933 Vance, Jack 1975

The last was only half the truth, but I felt that this was neither the time nor the place for overelaboration.

Ice Station Zebra MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1963

Some of these are very beautiful, though there is a tendency to overelaboration.

The Complete Home Oliver R. [Contributor] Williamson 1907

The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth; a pocket-edition of the larger mansions of their friends, but with less excuse for the overelaboration since the dimensions were only twenty by a hundred.

The Younger Set 1899

H is presumably reading that as an overelaboration of "during calm" - and then overstretching his criticism to take in "during rising tides" as well.

The Edge of the American West 2009