Example sentences of "too [adj] [art] word " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps conspiracy is too strong a word . |
| 2 | ‘ Totalitarianism ’ is not too strong a word . |
| 3 | The heart of the government 's economic difficulty is sterling , and the credibility of Mr Major 's indications ( if that is not too strong a word ) that he will defend it . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh come now , that 's far too strong a word , surely . |
| 5 | The possible objections to this analysis , if that is not too strong a word , are many . |
| 6 | NoS had not been hijacked — that was too strong a word . |
| 7 | He has many geniuses — that 's not too strong a word to use . |
| 8 | I imagine that Eliot 's early admiration , if that was not too strong a word , was due to Berdyaev 's excellent little book on the Russian Revolution ; a movement of which four years ' personal experience was enough to dispel early hopes . |
| 9 | The parentheses gave her a sense of not existing , un-being perhaps was not too strong a word . |
| 10 | I did , but possibly too strong a word , but certainly I think erm , I think the struggle in the last couple of years with regard to the parish council , has been to , to actually introduce it to people 's perception as of anything but importance . |
| 11 | There were two strands to the government 's strategy , although " strategy " is probably too strong a word for a policy which evolved opportunistically . |
| 12 | ‘ I think raid is too strong a word , ’ he said . |
| 13 | ‘ Servant ’ seemed too coarse a word for such a refined creature and indeed she made it plain that she did not usually inhabit a servants ' hall . |
| 14 | The dusty road encircled the island , here and there broken by small fishing settlements — ‘ village ’ would be too pretentious a word — the country around us laced with waterfalls on the hills behind , small bays , one very shallow , the next a deep creek where the beach became a small headland , the pale colour of the sea turned indigo because of the depth . |
| 15 | ‘ Wolves ! ’ shouted Giles drunkenly , ‘ wolves , that 's what they are , the pack of them , they 're traitors to the human race , scavengers , look at them , look at them , wolves is too good a word for them , jackals , hyenas , that 's what they are , hyenas ! ’ |
| 16 | Is that too powerful a word for the positive experiences of old age ? |
| 17 | Memory is too slight a word : |
| 18 | Here was a man who would have no trouble with women , Jane thought , strong and handsome , but cruel — perhaps cruel was too harsh a word , but hard certainly , it showed in the set of his mouth . |
| 19 | Irony is perhaps too harsh a word for an incongruous and humorous awareness that things are not as they seem , for either of these characters . |
| 20 | But , as she looked at him and witnessed that he was white with temper , so ‘ furious ’ seemed to be too mild a word . |
| 21 | Even ‘ violence ’ is too familiar a word , used to describe the acts of football fans or punches from pickets . |
| 22 | That implies the establishment of some form of institute — if that is not too grandiose a word — some form of organisation , more permanent than a one week ad hoc seminar , such as we have at present . |
| 23 | In his cluttered roof-void office-cum-spare bedroom , where clothes dry under the skylight and ergonomics is too big a word to fit in , he writes massive chunks of operating software for mainframe computers , programmes which can take between one and a half and ten ‘ man years ’ to complete . |
| 24 | The understated elegance of the build , the sheer unabated enjoyability of the ride and the consummately satisfying conclusions place Francis at the very top : ‘ thriller ’ is really too crude a word for his achievement . |
| 25 | Here was a Burger King , untouched , though the crowd must have swept past it as they hastened to torch ( loot is too optimistic a word for these foul establishments ) the Winchells Do-nut restaurant a few yards further on . |