overedit

Resist the temptation to overedit, add special effects or otherwise clutter up the viewer's experience of your work.

I have a tendency to underwrite and overedit, with too much focus on moving the story forward at the expense of character development.

But the current page limits may lead some authors to overedit the cases.

The bountiful selection demonstrated Simpson's process of relearning how to draw, after nearly three decades of taking pictures, and a desire not to overedit.

In this aspect, Women and the Law contrasts favorably with Bartlett's text, which tends to overedit and loses a great deal of subtlety in the process.

This book is Hotchner's riposte to critics who believe the first edition of A Moveable Feast was overedited by Hemingway's fourth wife, Mary, in a way that was unfair to wife no.

He was always cordial and cooperative, although I'm sure he felt that I overedited his work.

They have been spliced out and overedited. Yet these most expert voices need to be heard.

An overedited photo can look as amateurish as an overdesigned desktop-publishing document or Web site.

But he tries too hard during scenes of hand-to-hand combat, which he overedits into blurry abstractions, and he's much too fond of shooting characters in slo-mo as they casually walk (or desperately run) from cheesy-looking fiery explosions.

Isherwood's diaries are a little overedited by Katherine Bucknell; I don't think we really need footnotes to explain to us that The Flying Dutchman is an opera by Wagner or that the Kreutzer Sonata is by Beethoven.

To my mind, newsweeklies can have an overedited quality that wrings the richness out of the writing.