Example sentences of "[art] shade too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had started Supersight and had made quite an impact on an already highly competitive market with some clubs and putters which were a shade too gimmicky for me , but were tailor-made for the average club golfer , who will buy anything if it is ‘ guaranteed to add fifteen yards to your drive ’ . |
| 2 | The recording is perhaps a shade too close , but is nevertheless warm and involving , and Hardy 's playing easily survives such scrutiny . |
| 3 | Perkin 's jacket by contrast looked a shade too small for him and in hugging his incipient curves diminished the difference between the sizes of father and son . |
| 4 | Linnet — who could doubt it ? — had endured untold agonies beneath her cool , just a shade too persistent smile , finding little consolation , perhaps , but hardly so much as she had pretended , in the renewed attentions of Uriah Colclough . |
| 5 | It may be that Mendoros , who has integrated extraordinarily well into the local scene , ( he can enter many a pub in the vicinity and expect to meet someone he knows ) , will succumb to the familiar British failing of allowing enjoyment of life to absorb a shade too much attention , and business a fraction too little . |
| 6 | Grunte said that by and large most people had a jolly time , although there was , perhaps , a shade too much speechifying . |
| 7 | Hall , who this time last year was fighting as a schoolboy found the experience of Russia 's Sergo Chargakov , plus the burden of four bouts in six days , just a shade too much . |
| 8 | ‘ His research assistant , ’ Paula replied with a warm smile , a shade too warm . |
| 9 | It was a pleasant place , Blackheath , a shade too respectable for someone into the tablets of the time , and full of kids — unlike Small — waiting to go to university . |
| 10 | ‘ No , no , there 's no difficulty at all , ’ the other man said in a voice that was just a shade too affable . |
| 11 | Was being just a shade Too Keen |
| 12 | Her hair fell thick and straight to her square shoulders ; it was a shade too dark to be fairly termed blonde , but Victoria 's canon of style rejected tinting — or at least , tinting which could be recognised as such . |
| 13 | ‘ Those beasts visible through the grimy window are all a shade too mythical for my particular taste . ’ |
| 14 | The opening Largo of the Concerto No. 1 in D major is a good example of these qualities in Corelli 's style yet I felt that Banchini took it just a shade too slow for its own good . |
| 15 | Was her waist just a shade too stiff for so massive a skirt ? |
| 16 | Dr Vaughan is a shade too platonic for your taste , little sister ! ’ |
| 17 | Was the skirt just a shade too short ? |
| 18 | It may well be there is nothing wrong with hops in this form except that I find that brewers who use them , such as Whitbread and Charles Wells , produce beers with a bitterness that is a shade too harsh for my liking . |