Lexicographical Neighbors of Overelaborated
Literary usage of Overelaborated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Journal of Philology by Project Muse, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"Quintus Curtius V 5, u ffg. has overelaborated the idea and used it to motivate
the highly rhetorical speech of ..."
2. Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century by Henry Osborn Taylor (1920)
"... critics and interpreters overelaborated and specialized their allegorical
interpretation, making it quite beside the probable intention of the author, ..."
3. The Five Great Philosophies of Life by William De Witt Hyde (1911)
"Surely there are some features of this Epicurean day which we, in our bustling,
restless, overelaborated lives, might introduce with great profit to ..."
4. Some Modern Novelists: Appreciations and Estimates by Helen Thomas Follett, Wilson Follett (1918)
"Even the resemblance between Howells and Henry James is a subject easily
overelaborated by criticism, ..."
5. The World's Orators: Comprising the Great Orations of the World's History by Guy Carleton Lee (1900)
"This quality runs through his speeches, which are marked by a graceful ornateness
and attention to detail, but are generally overelaborated. ..."
6. From Epicurus to Christ: A Study in the Principles of Personality by William De Witt Hyde (1904)
"... in our bustling, restless, overelaborated lives, might introduce with great
profit to ourselves, and great advantage to the people with whom ..."
7. Samuel Rogers and His Circle by Richard Ellis Roberts (1910)
"The tales are really rather better than Lewis' more finished work: for when he
was writing—at any rate in The Monk—he always overelaborated, ..."
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