4 Sentences With "laid on with a trowel"

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GFMGLP's a relentlessly demented plaster bath laid on with a trowel. from Hyperallergic
The metaphors are elsewhere laid on with a trowel; and too many poems descend into lists that run out of steam long before they're finished. from The New York Times
"Though the film's portrait of Western decadence is laid on with a trowel, it's also pretty funny," Vincent Canby wrote when "Fatherland," then titled "Singing the Blues in Red," opened in New York in 1988. from The New York Times
In a contemporary review, "Murf." of Variety stated that like other Italian Westerns, "brutality is laid on with a trowel, but herein with at least a modicum of taste and plot motivation." A review in the Monthly Film Bulletin noted that "there are moments in this rather rambling Western which suggest that, given a more coherent script, Franco Giraldi might at least emerge as a front runner in the Italian imitation stakes" noting an "imaginatively directed gun battle set in a church" in the beginning of the film.