overbaked

His tan was so deep he looked overbaked.

But the overbaked acting often camouflages the genuine flashes of original insight.

The frequently overbaked machismo of the mail-room boys is sensed all over Hollywood.

My brain feels like an overbaked potato.

The marker snapped like an overbaked cookie.

And in the past 12 months the average temperature has beaten any since US records began – including 1933, the hottest year of that overbaked decade.

Ali bin Pacha was every bit the overbaked fanatic Abdul had warned us he would be.

Even by the flaky standards of Florida crime fiction, the Miami lawyer Jake Lassiter is an overbaked cookie from the rebel-hero mold.

I swung my head in Vernon's direction, mostly to get away from the smell of overbaked accountant, but whatever small talk I'd been meaning to make died in my throat.

Cinephiles and festivalgoers may recognize their names from previous collaborations like "To Die Like a Man," a playfully overbaked melodrama about an ill-fated preoperative transsexual.

"You can't say the shore is just filled with sorry seafood palaces that think they can get away with serving overbaked flounder with paprika," she said in an interview last week.

TV Guide rated the film 3 out of five stars, calling it "Overbaked but enjoyable, and a banquet for the eyes, thanks to the visual wonder of the Minnelli-Beaton teaming."

But the hero sprang behind a rock--just in time, for the ground upon which he had been standing was turned to molten glass, like an overbaked pot, by the heat of the flame-spirit's breath.

And what happens when the stock market crumbles like an overbaked scone and all those bankers with a yearning for haute cuisine and $600 bottles of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild start eating Thai takeout?

Made of scraps of billboard images, and suggesting enlarged, roughened versions of Romare Bearden's work, the figures hold their own against the rawness of the documentary partly through their overbaked, color-television palette.

The overbaked characters and unwieldy subplots of T. Jefferson Parker's WHERE SERPENTS LIE (Hyperion, $23.95) are a heavy drag on this thriller.

A thief, a burglar, a gang member, a drug dealer and a mother stepped into a windowless room in this overbaked city one Tuesday afternoon, strip-searched of pride and any material possession that made them somebody outside the brick-walled room.

Inspiration for my new cheeseball movie label "Marijuana Matinee" and chock-full of overbaked and comfortably familiar disaster trappings, The Core is silly and trite and altogether disposable - yet still I had a fairly good time.

It all ends with a slightly overbaked conversation between Lamar and the (sampled) late Tupac Shakur, which seems to predict an uprising, while Lamar's extended metaphor of a caterpillar turning into a butterfly begs for greater self-knowledge and transcendence.

XXXV WHEEBE EEE Gairloch was still protesting when I checked on him after a breakfast of three overpriced and overbaked corn muffins eaten next to two hung-over and scowling cavalry troopers.

On our first visit we waited half an hour for the warm chocolate cake, which had been promised "in about 10 minutes," and were "rewarded" with an overbaked, dried-out, barely edible cupcake-size round of cake with no hint of the soft center described on the menu.

Greg Kot of Rolling Stone gave the album two stars out of five, remarking, "Good Charlotte are much more persuasive when they let their vulnerability crack through the surface of these slightly overbaked songs, in which elaborate production touches mask the band's three-chord limitations."

New York Newsday praised the album's "original melodies, soaring, driving hooks, and precise, daringly oddball lyrics", but complained that "the jokey tone often descends into feyness, then facetiousness," and said the "overbaked singing accentuates the overly florid lyrics of otherwise engaging songs".

Others who will be facing the potential humiliation of soggy bottoms and overbaked pie crusts will include singer Michael Ball, Harry Potter actress Bonnie Wright and Blue Peter host Helen Skelton.