overexplain

(ˌəʊvərɪkˈspleɪn)

to explain in too much detail

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Sometimes I overshare (pretty much like I've done here) and overexplain because I want to make sure things come out as intended.

'When I interact with kids you'd never know I have social anxiety. It's the adults I worry about'

D]on't overexplain [sic]," Doyle writes to himself.

Environmental heroism and the power of storytelling in the novels and papers of Brian Doyle: "The Infinite Family of Organisms"

He points to the "clumsy dialogue" of pilots, in which writers have to overexplain characters and their relationships with one another, and the "incredible pressure" to cram it all into 21 minutes.

Ticket to heaven: a short, pilot-free run helps Mike Schur's 'The Good Place' draw top stars and avoid development hell

When we include education, we can overexplain the decline in job separations.

Understanding declining fluidity in the U.S. labor market

She writes these strange little experimental books that she then has to overexplain," they probably say to each other, full of irony, wherever they are.

"Writing yourself into the world": a conversation with Valeria Luiselli

A minor complaint on the language: Finnegan has a tendency to earnestly overexplain, particularly in early chapters.

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

Both tend to overexplain aesthetic choices such as the parody of B-movie acting, the music, the lesbian overtones, the artificial problematic frame rate, the jumpy editing, and the fictional missing reels that make Planet Terror and Tarantino's Death Proof resemble Grindhouse features.

Latino action heroes, strippers, and non-hegemonic miscegenation: family apocalypse in Robert Rodriguez's planet terror

Though thorough in his seven years of research, Coe does not overexplain the deep genealogical or personal minutiae of Johnson's life, does not shy away from extrapolation or conjecture, and does not claim to comprehensively and successfully account for the one, only, and true story of Johnson's life.

Jonathan Coe. Like a Fiery Elephant

He tends to overexplain his examples, and when it looks as if he is coming to a conclusion, he gives another example.

Uncertain Science, Uncertain World. (Science & Technology)

But now everybody wants to overexplain the metaphors.

What makes a good funeral? The editors interview Thomas Lynch. (Special Fall Book Section)

Do not overexplain your reason for the interview; the person might become confused or defensive.

Ten steps to a top-notch interview: it's more than just the questions you ask

Unfortunately, the second act goes on to overexplain everything the audience has already gleaned, turning the characters into one-note types: the hypocritical failed artist, the greedy art dealer, the self-destructive fag.

Ten Unknowns

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