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Such a view of Mann is startling, to say the least, more extreme than those of two other recent biographies, Donald Prater's overdetailed "Thomas Mann: A Life," and Ronald Hayman's psychoanalytically judgmental "Thomas Mann: A Biography."

First, has 'privatisation' effectively freed the organisation from over-detailed government interference?

Only key concepts and names should be indexed; an over-detailed index is not always helpful.

Rushdie's version of the 20 years that followed is overlong, over-detailed and written in the third person.

I am surprised that Parliament is not now taking the same stand with regard to this very complicated, highly technical and over-detailed proposal.

This over-detailed directive is contrary to the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality.

Politiken described the square as over-detailed and "looking like a liquidation sale for a quarry".

Indeed, in some technical fields (for example, computers), a clear description of function may be much more appropriate than an over-detailed description of structure.

The series has been criticised as lacking the authority of Bean's work and some of the volumes on campaigns are regarded as over-detailed.

EC demands for over-detailed labelling on food products, meddling in consumer rights and unnecessary rules on food safety, are all to be ruled out.

For his part, Mr. Clinton managed to tame his tendency to sound like a political-science professor with abstruse, over-detailed answers.

He was working on a novel in the manner of Émile Zola, which, according to Gorovei, was over-detailed and boring.

A review of the National Curriculum in 1994, led by Ron Dearing was sought in order to find ways to 'slim down' the over-detailed curriculum.

In any case, they did not favour the elaboration of over-detailed rules for some special investigative techniques, such as the use of undercover agents, that remained unregulated in Luxembourg.

The Kremlin chalked up the lack of progress on a new cooperation agreement to Brussels' insistence on including in the document over-detailed "texts on trade and investment cooperation."

MazinKaiser looks more heavily built than either of them, and sports the typical over-detailed (more ornate) style of more modern mechas (consider there's a 30-year gap between the first two and him).

It was therefore disappointing that the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development introduced many additional over-detailed amendments to link support primarily to farmers and weaken the commitment to wider rural development.

Mr President, the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy has adopted a number of amendments, all of which involve the deletion of sections containing over-detailed rules.

While Călinescu criticized the plot as being over-detailed, and the character studies as incomplete, Crohmălniceanu found the intricate depiction of boyar customs to be a relevant part of Sadoveanu's "vast historical fresco."

However, we have abstained on this report since in places it is over-detailed and prescriptive, and where it does propose specific measures it is far from clear that these would help Member States to develop a coherent and consistent anti-discrimination policy.

If your boss keeps giving you over-detailed directions about routine tasks, consultant Alison Green suggests politely asking: "I've noticed you go over this with me each time we do this, and it makes me wonder - am I making mistakes or otherwise not doing this correctly?"

At the same time, citizens feel that the Union is too concerned with the over-detailed implementation of policy that could be better implemented at national or regional level.

Train operators are too narrowly focussed on franchise specifications (which are often over-detailed).