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‘It is 1980s country house hotel cooking: complicated, rich, protein-intensive, heavy-handedly peppered with foods that shriek out Scottishness.’
‘A truly intrusive and irritating score, which heavy-handedly underlines every ‘poignant’ moment, only reinforces this condescending tendency.’
‘It has however indicated that it would not act heavy-handedly on 1 October and impose sanctions immediately against US exports to the EU, but first try to seek an amicable agreement for compensation.’
‘As an added inducement, it was heavy-handedly hinted that co-operation by Bucharest would assist Romania's ambition to join the European Union.’
‘The gap between the corrupt ruling class and the poor is wide and deep and he captures the unrest both too heavy-handedly and incredibly subtly.’
‘He expresses a few phrases of Oriental philosophy, but not as heavy-handedly as he did in the movies of the 1930s and 1940s.’
‘The film is cheerfully anachronistic - sometimes too heavy-handedly so.’
‘The basic plot points were delivered heavy-handedly at the beginning, but many things were not explained clearly after that, so I spent much of the first half of the film trying to figure out who people were.’
‘The brothers wanted to explore the theme of transition, but the angel motif is used so literally and heavy-handedly that the film threatens to sink under the weight of its own feathers.’
‘Overall, Lantos comes out heavy-handedly against the idea of publicly held companies being expected to be ethically altruistic.’
‘A group of four friends are debating - somewhat heavy-handedly - whether the nature of life is essentially tragic or comic.’
‘The works, intentionally filled with corrections, are heavy-handedly drawn and messily painted with the naivety of a beginning art student.’
‘Sometimes this is dealt with rather heavy-handedly.’
‘I really think it's just an extension of that adolescent need to define one's individuality as heavy-handedly as possible, but specifically in the area of intelligence.’
‘Some moderators look at themselves as lords of mini-fiefdoms, abusing the power that moderation gives them and heavy-handedly ordering people around, or else warning participants not to do anything to anger them.’
‘It's one thing to heavy-handedly engineer a pesticide into every cell of a crop; it's quite another to manage the ecological interrelationships of the farm so that the offending insect is controlled by the natural balances.’