It's extremely on the nose, but by that point, the movie has earned the right to be on the nose.
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Blackface is on the nose, and in your face, literally.
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" She explains, "On the nose, it is salty and briny.
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I had almost hit the number right on the nose.
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"Trump is hitting it right on the nose," he said.
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In a perfect, on the nose detail, Randall wears William's fedora.
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Wow. The real world made my script too on the nose.
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The explanation from KFC was a little less on the nose.
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It's much more expressive on the nose than on the palate.
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JD: Way more expressive on the nose than on the palate.
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That is embarrassingly on the nose and too clever by half.
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So yeah it's a little too on the nose right now.
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In Chicago, Uber's expansion is a little more on the nose.
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It's really pretty obvious that the imagery is on the nose.
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Its minimal characters weren't exceptionally interesting; the conceit, of an energy company mining hell itself for power, is both too on-the-nose and, somehow, in the era of climate change, not on-the-nose enough.
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Save your sweet tooth for something a little more on-the-nose.
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But while she is a bit on-the-nose, she's a start.
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Leave it to the Kardashians to be oh so on the nose.
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In other words, it's Infowars, but a little more on the nose.
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I considered taking a picture but it seemed too on the nose.
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Sure, it's a little on the nose, but Lara earns the title.
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Where Stranger Things goes for subtle, Summer goes for on-the-nose.
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HMD's 3310 reboot is even more on the nose than BlackBerry's offering.
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There's Halloween spirit, and then, there's a little too on the nose.
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He's looking to avoid the on-the-nose dystopian approach right now.
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Donald Trump doesn't have a monopoly on embarrassing, on-the-nose hats.
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Try this blue for shadow on the nose: may come out right.
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A sensor on the nose had malfunctioned, triggering an automated control system.
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The other thing the ACS's video is right on the nose about?
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Cannibal Lecture, he is calling himself, a little too on the nose.
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And though it sounds counterintuitive, Dr. Devgan can use a filler's volume to smooth a bump on the nose or strengthen the bridge — a virtually painless "nonsurgical nose job" that reduces the need for dark contour on the nose.
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Instead of recording the eye, though, these sensors are trained on the nose.
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Even these activations were either too on-the-nose or a bit underplayed.
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And its anti-war moral is just a little too on-the-nose.
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In this day and age, maybe you can't be too on the nose.
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It made it look like an incredibly broad, on-the-nose fan film.
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It's so accurate, so on-the-nose, that you almost feel personally attacked.
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Who concluded his bowing-out speech by bopping his wife on the nose.
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Alas, this world is too complicated for such an on-the-nose metaphor.
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What hits you on the nose feels like a kick to the crotch.
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As a metaphor for global warming, hellfire is almost too on the nose.
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Kim got Madonna on the nose, and Kourtney did an impressive Michael Jackson.
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There are points of low farce where it's a little on the nose.
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The flavor of the creme is extremely aromatic and offensive on the nose.
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It's on the nose in many ways, but that's what we were after.
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An on-the-nose choice, considering Payton and Infinity's lives are in danger.
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Not to be too on-the-nose, but his response was pretty wack.
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They might consider it a little too on the nose in a certain way.
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After peeling off a pore strip, the congestion is visibly relieved on the nose.
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If this were someone else's story, I'd think, That's a bit on the nose.
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The whole thing is a self-parody so on the nose it's almost boring.
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Some of Overwatch's cultural nods are a little more on the nose than others.
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Nold then ferried the animal on the nose of his longboard back to shore.
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The aircraft have three engines, one on the nose and one on each wing.
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Typically, increased blood flow to the skin on the nose causes the red color.
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We need more content like that—but a little bit more on the nose.
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The names of the colors are a little on-the-nose, but it works.
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That's a pretty hilarious, and an on the nose nod to all the drama.
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The script is occasionally too on the nose; contemporary resonances don't need pointing out.
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The title of Sebastián Lelio's new film might seem a bit on the nose.
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We can call it a metaphor, but damn if it isn't on the nose.
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The book title, "The McKinsey Way," is as on the nose as it sounds.
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However it's super on the nose, incredibly slight and kind of a snooze overall.
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In the post, Brady kissed a beaming Bündchen on the nose shortly after the game.
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I thought it was so on the nose with their mockery of the left wing.
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The fact that its name literally means "panic or fear" feels offensively on-the-nose.
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"The 'idea' behind the label is basically a pretty on-the-nose metaphor," he added.
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That's why there are two tiny cameras on the nose bridge, directed at your eyeballs.
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"Dirty Computer", the new album from Janelle Monáe, could easily be too on-the-nose.
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In this case, both visible-light and infrared cameras on the nose of the plane.
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I scoop her up to kiss her goodbye, and she bites me on the nose.
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I'm not going to be so on the nose as to say what they are.
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The instructor then ferried the animal on the nose of his longboard back to shore.
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She loved its smoky, peaty flavor, and almost guessed the exact bottle on the nose.
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There were great moments but some were a bit too on the nose for me.
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That's fine, I wouldn't know a pop song if it bit me on the nose.
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It was very campy, very on the nose, but it made a lot of points.
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Constant on-the-nose reporting, however much it seems to serve transparency, has limitations, too.
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It was a little on the nose, but that's the French way — obvious but artful.
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It's a little on the nose, he knows that, but it's true, and sometimes a condition of things that are true is that they're also a little on the nose: A few years ago, Mr. Hawke had a dream he hasn't been able to shake.
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"We had opportunities and hit some balls on the nose," said Dusty Baker, the Washington manager.
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As much as it's an old-fashioned play for timelessness, it's also very on the nose.
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From my ethnic background, being Indian, it's very common to have a hump on the nose.
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Early reviews of the film were tepid, describing it as formulaic, on-the-nose Oscar bait.
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But where it gets pretty on-the-nose in retrospect is how the episode played out.
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Most of the features based on the nose bridge eye scanners weren't flipped on yet, either.
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Fred flirts with her while holding a big knife; it's a bit too on the nose.
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His Star Wars equivalent, Kylo Ren, is a very on-the-nose portrait of privileged fandom.
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Data released on June 19th put the inflation rate in May at 2% on the nose.
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Were such dialog exchanged between Geppetto and his son, we would call it on the nose.
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True, it would be a bit too on the nose, turning new Bran into old Bran.
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This clue is so on-the-nose that I almost want to second-guess the theory.
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Would non-white robot slaves be too on-the-nose, too uncomfortable for Hollywood to handle?
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His dog tried to revive him and the snake fatally bit the dog on the nose.
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What hits on the nose most is probably a combination of the clove, spearmint, and cocoa.
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What an on-the-nose summation of America's interests today: wellness, video games, and celebrity families.
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The bear hit Johnson on the nose, and he returned a strike to hers, he said.
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The action is carried along on jumpy, poppy editing rhythms and on-the-nose song cues.
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Some of the settings are on the nose, but that does not mean they are ineffective.
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The whole situation is so ridiculous, so on-the-nose, that you almost have to laugh.
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Some of the examples Quart cites would sound too on-the-nose in a satirical novel.
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It's easy to dismiss these compositions — they seem too on the nose, too simple, too unironic.
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He gives me a grin, perhaps recognizing that the whole encounter is a little on-the-nose.
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The quadcopter features two optical cameras on the nose that sense and avoid objects in its path.
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In case the extremely blunt parody wasn't on the nose enough, the toilet comes in Jet Black.
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The snake shot forward to bite and struck the boxer dog on the nose before slinking off.
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Epic fantasy measured against actual human disaster is a housefly on the nose of a nuclear missile.
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Still, this display of affection is a bit too on the nose for us not to cringe.
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But I like to think if I had written it, it wouldn't be so on the nose?
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I had to determine how much foreshadowing I could do without being too much on the nose.
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It wasn't too buttery on the nose, and after I tasted it, I was fully on board.
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Outside the big cities, taking one's mind off the heat is a little more on the nose.
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Rue's struggle is on the nose, whereas BoJack Horseman's journey was too distinctly entangled with male entitlement.
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"But it's not as simple as going up in the playground and punching them on the nose."
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Now, the ending of Inside is a bit on the nose when it comes to these themes.
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BTW, his new show is called "Killing Zac Efron" ... a little too on the nose there, huh?
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I guess he thought it was too on-the-nose to project it onto the tool shed.
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Yes, it's on the nose, but that's where we are, so let's vomit it all out there.
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It's a good idea, or do you think it should be a little less on the nose.
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And people have been coming up with some truly awesome ones — funny, incisive, and right on the nose.
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Drogon, in a laughably on-the-nose piece of symbolism, literally burns down the Iron Throne in protest.
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The camera is positioned on the nose, extending out in front of the body instead of sitting underneath.
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The median round, coming in at $6 million on the nose, is up 11 percent from Q1 2017.
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I think the bill either gets 50 on the nose or it could drop as low as 40.
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That adds up to 453 electoral votes on the nose -- the number it takes to win the presidency.
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Oliver quickly shows his new friend who's boss by giving Ronan an itty-bitty boop on the nose.
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He's obviously a formidable screenwriter, but he's also one with a weakness for painfully on-the-nose dialogue.
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The house becomes a good and complex (if slightly on the nose) symbol of personal and political identity.
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The tech goes beyond the eyes with several touch sensors, including one on the nose and the back.
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Other times, they find humor in landing so heavily on the nose you can practically hear it breaking.
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A company with a name that's a little on-the-nose, The Podcast App, went through Y Combinator.
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It's the story of Tim Goodman — yes that's the character's name, and yes it's delightfully on the nose.
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That sequence so accurately defines the Marcus Smart experience that it was a bit too on the nose.
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Maybe it's a bit on the nose as a metaphor, but it is our intention all the same.
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However premeditated it was, the storyline of the bout was as on the nose as it could get.
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It's also a rather on-the-nose metaphor for a long and troubled relationship between both games' creators.
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The aptness of the metaphor for humanity's sense of social disconnection is a little too on the nose.
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Shark attacks can be countered by pounding them on the nose and scratching at their eyes and gills.
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Because it's so on-the-nose, though, it started me thinking about how plot works in horror novels.
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Is it too on-the-nose to say this an inside window to Drake starting from the bottom?
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Brexit. The effect is not on the nose so much as it swings at it with a hammer,
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Ingrid Goes West is on-the-nose satire to Sudjic's literary thriller, but the skeleton is the same.
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We gave her a bump on the nose, teeth that stuck out, freckles, and she still looked amazing.
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"We could have ended up with something too on-the-nose, like a yuzu sake drink," she said.
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"If they've got a problem with me, come and see me and punch me on the nose,"Mr.
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It's a bit on the nose if you ask me, but still well within the range of possibilities.
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But he kept saying it, even after Ivanka swatted him on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper.
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That said, following Oreo's product placement with an ad for the cookies was a bit too on the nose.
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In hindsight perhaps it's on the nose that the McKinsey guy would be the one to master caucus math.
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Astra has some terribly on-the-nose narration that explains, laboriously, that sons often suffer for their fathers' sins.
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The Boss Baby is deeply self-aware of how on the nose it is, at least with its casting.
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It may be a little on the nose as a gift, but what fan doesn't like repping their fandom?
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The approach in a strange parking lot, the B-movie dialogue — it all seems a bit on the nose.
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Prison art is amazing, and so are the paintings flyers put on the nose cones of their fighter planes.
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"Welcome to the family, gorgeous miss Bella," she captioned the shot of her kissing the horse on the nose.
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It's like a massive SNL parody that was rejected for being too on-the-nose has become our reality.
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Feel free to zoom in on the fur around his eyes and the lack of details on the nose.
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It also has a camera on the nose and the butt, along with several other sensors throughout the body.
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"It's maybe a little on the nose, but I think you get where I'm going with it," he says.
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"They're so on the nose," Andy Kelly, the UK journalist who started @DarkStockPhotos, told BuzzFeed News of his inspiration.
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This trailer is honestly way too on the nose for this week and I kind of can't handle it.
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The two managed to regain control of the spaceship by powering up thrusters on the nose of the capsule.
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If you are attacked by a shark, pound it on the nose and scratch at its eyes and gills.
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In a very on-the-nose retail apocalypse moment, a Toys R Us was transformed into a haunted house.
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The new season still pauses for the occasional on-the-nose sermon about the natures of truth and justice.
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I hope we're going to do that in a way that's not too sanctimonious or too on the nose.
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"Doing an on-the-nose love story for 'Daydream' just didn't feel right," Alisa detailed the group's ideation process.
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Others have been turned into big warehouses to serve e-commerce companies (that one's a little on the nose).
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Or, in a take that's a little too on-the-nose, they'll dress the elf up like a cop.
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Both of them were on-the-nose '80s-inspired looks, and like everything these women wear, it was intentional.
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Constance, is Oprah as the voice of the American resistance on the nose or just right or, somehow, both?
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It couldn't be more tasteful, or more on-the-nose: This is where Instagrammable minimalism converges with Instagrammable Frenchness.
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Leaves you more time to find a music option less on-the-nose than Marvin Gaye to set the mood.
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While the acting and story in itself is riveting and heartbreaking, the dialogue can sometimes be too on-the-nose.
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It is extremely on the nose — as in, it's a weird not-quite-accurate replication of the iconic Hollywood sign.
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Ending a fantastical display of dress-up with a wedding dress is so random, and yet, so on-the-nose.
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A dud of a climax, featuring some excessively on-the-nose dialogue summarizing Dark Phoenix's central themes, doesn't help either.
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It's all a bit on the nose for a country that's reeling with the impending reality of a President Trump.
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It's all a little too on the nose, sort of like she had a consultant tell her who to follow.
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Earlier this month, she posted a sweet baby photo of Hashem giving royal dad a playful kiss on the nose.
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The recipes ahead pair perfectly with our fuzzy slippers (and Netflix) while still hitting that healthy goal on the nose.
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Too on-the-nose?), Hopper is Brand (checks out), Nancy is Andy (yep), and the demogorgon is Mama Fratelli (nice).
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Expect the final figure to be $10.5 billion on the nose, with Vista still trying to work through final allocations.
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She showed up to last year's Grammys wearing a pro-life dress, which also had an on-the-nose accessory.
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Although the BOY London tee is a little on the nose, the rest of her outfits irradiate late-'80s sex.
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She watched old episodes of "The Good Wife" and "Madam Secretary," even if that seemed a little on the nose.
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Maybe that's a little on the nose (the album's second single, of course, is the highly memeable, "It's a Vibe").
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Even by the utterly fucked standards of 2018, this was a pretty on-the-nose moment, and people reacted predictably.
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The fists of their final pose might be a tad on the nose, but sometimes clear signals are called for.
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It was only after a painfully on-the-nose dream a few weeks later that I stopped doubting my intuition.
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And in a rather on-the-nose closing note for the film, he shows Israelis and Palestinians playing backgammon together.
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On-the-nose music cues and awkwardly expository dialogue doesn't elevate the material as much as keep it resolutely earthbound.
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This tactic may seem a bit on the nose, but it can be surprisingly successful — a 2018 survey by CreditCards.
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In an almost-too-on-the-nose moment, Stone was wearing the shirt when he was arrested by the FBI.
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It seems entirely too on-the-nose that one of the first female cops in America was named Constance Kopp.
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As endings go, this one's a bit too on the nose given this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year.
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It seemed a little too on the nose for three guys living in a former Stock Exchange building, they agreed.
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A bit on the nose, but I admit I need less subtlety in my anti-colonial, anti-oligarchy fiction these days.
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Yes, maybe taking control of your life by literally taking control of your life is a teensy bit on the nose.
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Call it a little on-the-nose, but two of the three types of crystals that Askinosie recommends are literally green.
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It's extremely on-the-nose, because we all know that Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen really do run a fashion empire.
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Pores are larger where there's higher production of oil, which is why they often spring up on the nose and cheeks.
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For Bhad Bhabie, though, her attempt to stand out is a little too on the nose, and besides, it's historically inaccurate.
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Tostitos Tyler is a symbol of oppression that's almost a bit too on the nose with that man-bun and hoverboard.
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It makes sense — it's too on-the-nose, too potentially corny and too much of an open call for fashion puns.
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As the Trump era wears on, we'll see more and more on-the-nose skewerings of the president, to be sure.
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The cowling for the left-hand turbine is missing, just like Luke's, and there's a bit of damage on the nose.
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To have that point proven in the very article she was participating in is too on the nose even for Hollywood.
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It's like Basquiat, where there is most certainly a message in there, but it's encrypted and never too on-the-nose.
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Sometimes these touches are a little on the nose, like seeing a serial killer's lair wallpapered with newspapers reporting his crimes.
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The trailer is backed by the classic Styx track "Renegade," which seems a little on the nose but is appropriately chilling.
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"I detect a scent of grief and confusion with a hint of guilt on the nose," the dog says, nailing it.
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There's a bit of expositional throat-clearing, early on—and Emerson's threatening-nerd act can feel a little on the nose.
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It's easy to wish "Green Book" itself wasn't quite so ham-fisted at times, or on-the-nose with its dialogue.
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The utterance is so on the nose, up-for-it exclamation point and all, that it surely must be self-aware.
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It was so on the nose that the infamous prankster group the Yes Men claimed it was a project of theirs.
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His obsession with her nose felt a little too, well, on-the-nose, if you will, but the corniness was endearing.
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"The tea I'm drinking is called Mystical Creatures, which is a little bit on the nose for today's themes," he said.
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" Only this time, Emily gets a super on-the-nose tear-ridden speech that ends with, "He's all I have, Lorelai!
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Playing "Crying" in that scene was a bit on the nose, as they say, though it feels churlish to note it.
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It's hard to gauge how much of Mr. Moore's show will be on-the-nose Trump critique or address broader ideas.
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The album's title is a little on-the-nose, considering that Swift's reputation is among the most notorious in pop music.
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Too often, the dialogue is on the nose, and some dreamlike images don't seem underpinned by much else in the film.
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However, prior to Q3's on-the-nose prediction of 1.9% quarterly growth, the N.Y. Fed's nowcasts haven't been especially accurate.
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If the imagery there is a little on-the-nose — do you get it, they're like black and white backgammon pieces?
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Some of the quotes barely feel real, like if someone were doing a too-on-the-nose impression of Donald Trump.
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"I don't have friends, I got family" Dom Toretto tells us in 2015's Furious 7, putting it squarely on the nose.
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Katt's Cat-Woman-esque personality was charming, on the nose, and brought out a part of Falco that was recognizable but unseen.
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And on the nose, Buckle notes that a bit of highlighter on the tip gives the illusion of a more lifted appearance.
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Funny enough, the only result that Pic2Recipe got right on the nose was when I uploaded a picture of a hot dog.
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Tiresias, the visually impaired seer (a bit on the nose, eh?) from Greek mythology, is often cited as the original super-crip.
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Which sounds fantastic, but how, exactly, do Botox and fillers smooth out a bump on the nose or make a cheekbone pop?
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I think that the word was just necessary for the song, because usually I try not to be so on the nose.
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Now on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, the members of RAPE are portrayed as idiotic and ignorant, complete with an on-the-nose acronym.
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The Etsy seller also makes a Veritaserum version of the flask, which is a little too on the nose given alcohol's reputation.
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Geeky Sex Toys – which is a pretty on-the-nose name, but fine – is the purveyor of these pop culture-inspired toys.
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Sure, it's a little on the nose, but we can't help but admire the Jony Ive-esque simplicity and directness of it.
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None of the characters on our show are politicians, and for good reason—that would have been too on the nose, right?
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She litters her lyrics with on-the-nose metaphors like "buggin', like mosquitoes" and garbles satirical mumble-rap murmurs throughout the project.
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The medical term for a hangover is veisalgia, and it's absolutely perfect—so on the nose it's hard to believe it's real.
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There are other soft spots in "Monument," moments when Trethewey's metrical dexterity slackens or her political points are too on the nose.
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"He hit three balls on the nose," he told reporters after Monday's game, though none of that contact resulted in a hit.
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I loathe them all and still want to give them a hard punch on the nose, decades after I first met them.
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The food arrives in plastic boxes and bags, and the fact that Earth is not capitalized is just too on the nose.
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For me, it's an amazing genre to explore themes and allegory without being too on-the-nose, kind of like sci-fi.
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The first thing Trump said about Sisi — "he's a fantastic guy, he took control of Egypt" — is almost comically on the nose.
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WHAT I LOVE For the best-selling author of thrillers, buying a spooky old Victorian seemed a little too on the nose.
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But until that War Room work actually gets started, all we have is some unbelievably on-the-nose PR.[The New York Times]
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But while I enjoy a good feminist monologue, "a woman is either a madonna or a whore" is a little on the nose.
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It's hard to imagine a more on-the-nose metaphor for the devastating impacts of climate change than watching a glacier park burn.
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But it seems awfully on the nose for that someone to be a middle-of-the-road pop band of (mostly) white men.
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He also got a big laugh out of our on-the-nose name suggestion for the kid he and Hilarie Burton are expecting.
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I thought surely it would be a little too on-the-nose to go to Iceland and literally see Bjork just hanging out.
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We didn't want to make everything too on-the-nose, but we felt you had to tip your hat at least a little.
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Still, even when it worked out, it seemed slightly unreal, just the sort of on-the-nose outcome baseball is built to avoid.
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And it would be hard to call the show's depiction of sexism too on-the-nose for its time, or maybe even ours.
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Personally, I thought of it as a slightly-on-the-nose metaphor for an industry that's approaching, but has not quite reached, maturity.
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Barack Obama hit it on the nose in New Zealand -- saying hello the right way by pressing his face up against his hosts.
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It even features the iconic image of a Canadian beaver covering the prime minister's junk, although that seems a tad on the nose.
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It's on the nose but, thanks to some canny voiceover work from Clea Duvall as the invisible girl, surprisingly affecting in the end.
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And on July 22005 — Independence Day, a detail maybe a little too on the nose for the Pixar movie — the birds were gone.
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Sarah Laux's on-the-nose costumes all but billboard the characters; the central motif of Derek McLane's set is a liquor bottle collage.
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I never go to these, but this one is so on the nose for me, I feel like I can't pass it up.
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At David's official in-office consult, Dr. Lee tells him that his condition is called rhinophyma, an overgrowth of tissue on the nose.
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Yet Lindelof and company cleverly use that relationship to round out "The Leftovers" without delivering anything too on-the-nose or overly explanatory.
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The software update adds data from a second sensor on the nose of the plane that measures the horizontal tilt of the airplane.
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For one of the only N.F.L. teams never to make it to the Super Bowl, it was a little too on the nose.
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Both tracks are also sort of on the nose—almost hilariously so—in a way that reminds me of my own tastes too.
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It was like, oh, it's too religious, it's too ambiguous, and it's too on the nose because [the ring world] looks like a halo.
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They do not only rely on the player reading a racist letter, or witnessing on-the-nose dialogue exchanges (as last season might have).
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Our conversation ventured into depressing territory at times, but from batteries to hacking to driverless cars, Derek's predictions seem pretty damn on the nose.
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It definitely looks like what you'd get if a Pure tower and Hot fan had a baby, which is a little on the nose.
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Do you think "These clothes are out of this world" is a little too on-the-nose as a tagline for Gucci's new campaign?
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For critics, it seemed a little on the nose -- Beyoncé had just released a song, "Formation," in which she disclosed pretty much the same.
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The worst episodes usually forget that primal element in favor of on-the-nose moralizing (like the season one anti-gambling lecture "The Fever").
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It's incredibly on the nose, an admittedly helpful element of filmmaking when you, the viewer, are solely using your ears and occasionally passing out.
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Well, she can take an inventory of her face, puffing out her cheeks to make sure they are still there, checking on the nose.
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You could hardly get a more on-the-nose example of this than YouTube deciding that Wikipedia is the solution to its social costs.
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Even when making functional, floor-filling filter house in their earlier days, they'd give things a little bit of a tweak on the nose.
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The schematic nature of the movie's story line and the on-the-nose quality of many of its observations can add to the frustration.
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But if you're looking for a sermon in your art, as many Christian audiences are, "on the nose" becomes the reason the art exists.
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The 'Countess' then apparently tried to have her opponent arrested for striking a woman when he tapped her on the nose with his glove.
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"For us, it's the perfect nod to the legacy without being too on the nose," said Bonnie Hammer, chairwoman of the upcoming streaming service.
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Their example of the decline of American capitalism in general is almost a little too on-the-nose, but then, that's 2019 for you.
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Some were a little too on the nose while others were executed almost too flawlessly, but the innuendo was very strong throughout the thread.
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" Again and again, his fatigue is a theme, as on "Jorja Interlude": "Told me I'm looking exhausted/You hit it right on the nose.
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But given that most pornography is an expression of the fantasy life of white men, it was more on the nose than Murray knew.
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The metaphor for assimilation can seem a little too on-the-nose, with the curry-spiced savory pie standing in for the melting pot.
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And then, as was bound to happen in this slightly on-the-nose Icarus tale, the hoverboard flew a little too close to the sun.
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The Haunting of Hill House, while maybe occasionally a bit too on-the-nose, is a type of domestic horror we're not used to seeing.
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It uses the "zoom in on the nose" meme everyone has been obsessing over so accurately and so hilariously that it got over 100,23 likes.
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Gaga's manic medley was too on the nose at every level—did you know that David Bowie was an artist who did lots of CHANGES?
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The Photoshop animation is reminiscent of the style employed in Valley's work on Gorillaz music videos, but it gets a bit on-the-nose sometimes.
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Character: Dale Murphy, USMC tough guy/TV show host Rollins' role in the straight-to-video Wrong Turn 903 is almost too on-the-nose.
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Sometimes They Come Back is a straightforward story down to the on-the-nose title, but it treats its plot like a deeply compelling mystery.
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Andromeda's writing has been dinged for swinging between colloquial and stilted, for being too on-the-nose with its characterizations, and for being over-earnest.
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It's hard to imagine a more squarely on-the-nose example of demonizing mental illness than portraying a mentally ill man as a literal demon.
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At a time when journalism finds itself once again in a pitched battle with a sitting president, this actually risks feeling too on the nose.
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I'm fine with a female Ghostbusters in theory, but the part where they exterminate the ghost of the patriarchy is a bit on the nose.
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The answer is not really, but their associations are a lot closer — and in one case, way more on the nose — than you might think.
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If that's a little too on the nose for you, here's what the French investigation turned up: They were barely even trying to hide it.
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But these clips of her talking to the victims of gun violence and their family members are moving, if a little too on-the-nose.
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Animal GIFs are a proxy for feeling, an oblique way of pointing to our emotions without being too on the nose—they're safe that way.
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In terms of metaphors for all of this, holding a giant glowing globe with a group of Muslim leaders is almost too on the nose.
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I set my foot gently on the brake, putting weight on the nose of the car, and then shoved the pedal all the way down.
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Roka's Geko technology uses biomimicry on the nose pads and sunglass arms—the sweatier you get, the more the hydrophilic pads stick to your face.
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It's so on the nose for a sex scene featuring an interracial romance between a ballerina and a hip hop dancer that I actually guffawed.
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According to Astin, The Duffer Brothers were careful when casting him in "Stranger Things 2" because they were worried it'd be too on the nose.
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Yet even in this most on-the-nose part, it's equally important (and complicating) that Ms. Bender is much smaller than Mr. Hamilton, and female.
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The scene in which a woman at the pool warns him, "Pride goeth before a fall," belongs in the on-the-nose hall of fame.
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Israeli commentators were taken aback by the ad, some finding the joke too on-the-nose or the subject too serious to make light of.
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That idea was picked up in the episode's pulsating final scene, which might have been a little on the nose but was still viscerally effective.
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At the end of the episode, we saw Tara pondering Denise's death and considering Rosita's rather on-the-nose demands to reveal where she'd been.
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Buy This Every holiday season, I'm hard-pressed to find greeting cards that are chic without being solemn, festive but not too on-the-nose.
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If that's not a succinct and on-the-nose-way to address Disney's overpowering dominance of the entertainment industry, I don't know what else is.
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With Hasbro's coding app, children can program Proto Max to, say, bark when touched on the nose or spin around when patted on the back.
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Sometimes, life is incredibly on the nose; if you look for them, there are obvious symbols for whatever you're going through lurking around every corner.
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Angie Tribeca is also a spoof on all these tropes, and aggressively so, in the over-the-top, on-the-nose style of Police Squad!
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"It may seem too on the nose, but that's literally what makes this song," wrote Brice Yocum, a 48-year-old who lives outside Visalia.
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And the second meme is pictures of a Shiba dog with the caption "zoom in on the nose," and there, on the nose, glistening, almost imperceptibly, are Comic Sans instructions that send you around the photo on a wild goose chase that normally ends in an affirmation—"~remember u are beautiful~"—or whatever the opposite of that is—"~ya trash~"—and that is the other meme.
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A herpes' cold sore, however, usually appears outside the mouth, on or around the lips, and sometimes on the nose or—very rarely—near the eyes.
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Not The Purge: Election Year with its on-the-nose title; not Jason Bourne with its buzzword-y Edward Snowden talk and inexplicably successful Internet companies.
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For his part, Yentob does not have a gift for subtlety—Cracked Actor is constantly interrupted by on-the-nose shots, like Bowie trying on masks.
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Nothing could be more on the nose than breakout actor Darren Criss singing the signature song from Lady Gaga's "A Star is Born" at a bar.
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Groen's only presence in the show is via his edits, and the choice of music and editing choices are often a little too on the nose.
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But given Facebook's embattled journalism initiatives, it's honestly too on the nose that Facebook's statement about its commitment to high quality journalism contains a blatant typo.
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You really can't stick it on the nose of your surfboard or use a selfie stick while snowboarding with it and expect to be in frame.
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Jules and Ophelia come together not over their very on-the-nose Shakespeare namesakes or any particular shared experience, but over a base-level simmering anger.
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It's a girl squad song, and depending on how you feel about the word "squad," it might come off as a touch too on-the-nose.
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And the "I am a [sign] and that's why" game — another foray into astrology memes — ended up being pretty on the nose for a few people.
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Cyberpunk 2077's dystopia doesn't seem quite so on-the-nose, but it also seems to be playing with heavy themes without truly delving into them.
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The first is aggressively on the nose: Bon Jovi's "Runaway" plays as Eleven steps off the bus in Chicago with a satisfied smile on her face.
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Cilia, microscopic hair-like projections on the nose tissue, are responsible for detecting the chemical components of odors and transmitting that information to the sensory neurons.
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It couldn't be more on the nose while also having its tongue so firmly in its cheek—it's a wonder the narrator can speak at all.
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For starters, the Aston Martin logo will be carried on the nose of the Red Bull Racing F21 car for the entirety of the 13 season.
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And while it could very well be just an operative phrase for Gellar, the clutch's nod to Buffy the Vampire Slayer is too on the nose.
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As if to make up for his lapse, he put his hands on her shoulders, kissed her on the nose and told her she was beautiful.
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Likewise, Mr. Gouez said Moët Ice is blended with base wines that have more flavor intensity, prettiness on the nose and acidity, to anticipate the dilution.
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Pros: Not as intense on the nose as Tiger Balm, but just as (if not more) effectiveCons: None to speak of, other than maybe the price
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Made from a sweatshirt-like fabric, they fit closely over the face and are held on by two straps with a metal adjuster on the nose.
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Cloud has all the trappings of a sinister tech company, and MotherCloud's facilities, payment systems and promotional videos are outlined in excruciating, on-the-nose detail.
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Hypnospace Outlaw isn't an on-the-nose statement on The Internet Today; it's a pitch-perfect period piece that's actually set in a vibrant alternate universe.
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President Donald Trump's firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson via tweet is, as a metaphor for the overall Trump administration, almost too on the nose.
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Instead, my friends use it as an affirmation while planning logistics, or a reaction to bawdy absurdities, or a too-on-the-nose reveling in good times.
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"The fact that the qualified women are sandwiched in the middle of the pack behind mediocre white men is honestly almost too on the nose," Barefoot tweeted.
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"We set some really big goals for Rio a couple of years ago and I never thought I would hit them so on the nose," she said.
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The Resistance has a briefing on Starkiller base that is a little too on-the-nose about pointing out that Starkiller isn't the Death Star, it's larger!
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There is so much more she could say than her too-on-the-nose 140 characters (or even 280, had she taken advantage of that) could convey.
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Darkseid's relationship with Orion provided a clear model for the Star Wars movies (it almost seems too on-the-nose that his name is pronounced "dark side").
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When American Vandal premiered in September 2017, it was meant to be a on-the-nose parody of true crime sensations like Making a Murderer and Serial.
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And the ongoing revelations over America's modern-day concentration camps for migrants have resurrected the specter of Japanese American internment (sometimes in morbidly on-the-nose ways).
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If a novelist or filmmaker was writing Black's life right now, his second act could easily be criticized as being just a bit too on the nose.
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She confronts the man who's been stalking Maravelle's daughter in a manner that ought to get her killed, but she escapes with a pop on the nose.
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"Prior to the popularity of selfies, the most common complaint from those seeking rhinoplasty was the hump of the dorsum on the nose," the JAMA article says.
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They also replaced the great score by Herbie Hancock with AC/DC's Shoot to Thrill and Back in Black, as if it wasn't on the nose enough.
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Someone asked me what I thought, and I turned into a wine writer: It was vinegary on the nose; there were afternotes of pond water, acid, fire.
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When I was listening to it, I realized I was no longer bothered by the on-the-nose (on-the-eyeball?) quality of this production's video projections.
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One (on the nose) app called Period Tracker, which can be found in both the App Store and Google Play, is specifically designed to track irregular cycles.
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Yes, you can pick apart the show's stretched pacing, remark on its occasionally clichéd scripting, and complain about its bad title and rather on-the-nose finale.
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As a tale of corruption, it is so deeply intertwined with our current cultural and political rot that it feels, at times, almost too on the nose.
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As a tale of corruption, it is so deeply intertwined with our current cultural and political rot that it feels, at times, almost too on the nose.
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If Sabaaneh's work is a bit on the nose overall, it's because he's struggling to bring to light circumstances that are often widely elided for political reasons.
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He only went on the nose once or twice per season, and those moments are the ones that stick in the memory because they were so powerful.
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Thanks to cameras mounted on the nose of each drone—which serve as the pilots' eyes—the audience gets a first-person POV glimpse into the action.
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The movie brims with sappy writing and almost unbelievably on-the-nose platitudes, and the acting from the majority of the ensemble cast leaves much to be desired.
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There's Chia Rick and Chia Morty from Rick And Morty, Chia emojis, and, of course, Chia Trump, whose amber terracotta face-pot seems almost too on-the-nose.
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It's a little on the nose, given what comes later, but a useful reminder that hosts are programmed to be shielded from things they're not mean to understand.
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Jin and her friend leaned in for a kiss while two animal wranglers held onto the python, when it suddenly struck and bit the woman on the nose.
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New Orleans duo $UICIDEBOY$ are known for surreal, scary "horrorcore" rap, which makes it very close to too-on-the-nose for them to rap about Donnie Darko.
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It's a clever, if occasionally too-on-the-nose, conceit that winds up underscoring just what an opaque figure Kael, who died in 2001, was and still is.
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Meanwhile, Crowley is perpetually followed by a soundtrack of on-the-nose Queen songs like "Bohemian Rhapsody," which blares from the Bentley he drives to the final showdown.
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Bob, the vulnerable softie whose death we saw coming from the moment he was introduced, is an almost too on-the-nose inversion of the maverick police chief.
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Because a literal representation of an "elevator pitch" is too on-the-nose, I guess, but having four judges swipe left or right on an app's viability isn't.
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"[The alien] told me it was going to give me a little bite on the nose, but when I woke up everything would be okay," Roppolo told Motherboard.
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" Second place: Giovanni Da Verrazzano Chianti Classico 2015 (Italy); $11.96 "On the nose, this one's a little bit more serious [than the other Italian wines in the group].
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He was on a routine whale-watching boat trip last week in Monterey Bay, California, when he noticed a sea lion stuck on the nose of humpback whale.
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The script, written by Carpenter under the pseudonym Frank Armitage—also the name of co-star Keith David's character in the film—is on-the-nose and preachy.
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That number should be cut in half, and then half of the songs that are left should've been swapped out, because they were way too on the nose.
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Palin shared a throwback photo of her 7-year-old son, Tripp, giving his baby sister a kiss on the nose while he cradles her in his arms.
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Elon Musk has never shied away from comparisons with superhero Tony Stark, but his most recent joke on the subject is pretty on the nose, even for him.
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PHILADELPHIA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Emmanuel Rutema couldn't keep the smile off his face as he tested out his new prosthetic arm and promptly knocked himself on the nose.
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Casting Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, who have both been vocal critics of the Trump administration, in the lead roles is more than a little on the nose.
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Marked by the on-the-nose clock icon in the corner, it lets you set up specific times for the purifier to run, and which settings to use.
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During the vocal take, I got worried that the lyrics were too on the nose, so I moved some words around, and now it makes even less sense.
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Her pop is just a little too on-the-nose for Coachella's rap and EDM palette, too alternately weird and corny to ever have Beyoncé-level universal appeal.
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People can be wary of lyrics that are too "on the nose," so how did you think about what would make this song effective and make it hit?
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Camille's reply is a bit on-the-nose, but that doesn't make it any less effective: "We don't have a lot of happy stories around here," she says.
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"Under the Shadow" is being sold as a horror film, and understandably so; there are a few nasty surprises that will bop you right on the nose cone.
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The show's basic premise, about a group of teens who discover that their parents are all supervillains and run away to fight them, is beautifully on the nose.
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The final shot, taking place some time after the main action, seeks a character rather than follows one and is shamelessly on the nose in the allegory department.
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Perhaps most problematic, it was a touch too on-the-nose for the best-selling author of a few dozen thrillers to live in a spooky Victorian manse.
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It can drag on for the sake of cramming in another joke, and there are a few plots that lose their punch by being too on the nose.
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From the cinematography to their fluffy, on-the-nose banter, Battle of the Sexes provided the sort of cheesy, heavy-handed love story all too common in lesbian films.
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Again, a possibly weighty, conversation-starting image immediately comes off as a for-shock, and fairly on-the-nose, statement about how the world's expectations make women hurt themselves.
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Music was tamer and almost too on the nose — after Mary Louise triumphed in court, the song Roy Orbison's "It's Over" played loudly through her speakers to say what?
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Mr Rylance and Mr Branagh have a few on-the-nose lines which sketch in some context, but otherwise the dialogue and exposition are pared back to the bone.
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This is an almost too-on-the-nose dramatization of a point that feminist international relations scholar J. Ann Tickner made in her 1992 book, Gender and International Relations.
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" But we get an on-the-nose impression of Ginger Spice when Scary trots on set to say, "Blah blah blah, girl power, feminism...you know what I mean?
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"My wardrobe for Suits isn't like Working Girl — dressing for work doesn't have to be so on-the-nose these days," she explained while discussing her character, Rachel Zane.
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They hope her case will let other doctors know to consider an amoeba infection if a patient gets a sore or rash on the nose after rinsing their sinuses.
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Clinton's rejection of an ambitious policy that clearly resonated with her personally because of "the numbers" is almost too on the nose, like a lazy Saturday Night Live sketch.
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When I walked in, Bob Marley's "Get Up, Stand Up" was playing over the speakers which was a little on-the-nose for 4/20, if you ask me.
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A guidance-control unit on the nose locked onto a laser reflection — invisible to the naked eye but meaningful to the bomb — sparkling on the rocks Fahd walked over.
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Even though Moshe Yassur's production has a hazy, haphazard feel, in times like ours, a story about ordinary people seduced by fascist overtures seems too, well, on the nose.
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The same is true in "Frontières," whose absurdity doesn't always register the way it needs to, while its message can be too on the nose, its dialogue too garrulous.
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Lonzo Ball has spent his entire summer preparing for this moment, only for the moment itself to leap out of a fucking tire and bite him on the nose.
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Having heard that, I watched it, and I have to admit I was assuming it was going to be very on the nose in that way, and it's not.
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It's so obvious in its earnestness, the musicians so perfect in their brand of feminist existentialism, that playing it is not just on the nose — it's on the entire face.
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Meghan Markle says she's doing well, but also notes that she's "very pregnant" -- and she couldn't be more on the nose ... as her baby bump grows larger by the day.
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Our first look at Old Man Logan comes with a side Johnny Cash, whose memorable cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" is effective here, if a little on the nose.
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The stock came within one dollar of $212,2500 during Thursday's session, touching an all-time high of $663 a share on the nose before falling back slightly, according to FactSet.
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We asked Warriors baller Nick Young what the hell coulda smacked into the OKC Thunder airplane on Friday night -- making a HUGE crater on the nose of the Boeing 757.
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Yes, this is all the work of a #brand, but the company (or, likely, its advertising agency) deserves some credit for how crushingly on-the-nose the commercials really are.
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When I was first assigned to review this book, I rolled my eyes—a little on the nose, no, to have one gay, brown writer review the work of another?
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A little on the nose, yes, but in a post-Trump election world, I have to say that "Yeah Milo, racism is scary, patriarchy is scary," actually resonated quite strongly.
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The revival's first episode, which takes the Trump administration head-on, is its most on-the-nose attempt to be a conversation starter and in many ways the least effective.
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The "Blogger" bag, ironically or intentionally, is a little on-the-nose in terms of what we spot most often on our feeds (and on often-photographed fashion-show-goers).
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Slater hopped in the water with a huge paddleboard, then put Oprah on the nose, caught a beginner-level wave, stood on the tail, and encouraged his passenger to stand.
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He planned for the race to go between Manhattan and Atlantic City, with a name that would be an on-the-nose nod to Tour de France, according to Politico.
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As TV genres go, national politics in the Trump era is as on-the-nose as it gets—delicious instability, blatant backstabbing, legislative high-drama, and daily presidential temper tantrums.
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Wine, Naturally Rachel Monroe, in her article about the rise of natural wine, is right that such wine has become a symbol of virtuous consumption ("On the Nose," November 25th).
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The on-the-nose one-two punch of 1984 and Dante's Inferno references of "2+2=5 (The Lukewarm)" complete the lit major requirements of the album in one fell swoop.
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The on-the-nose one-two punch of 1984 and Dante's Inferno references of "2+20113=5 (The Lukewarm)" complete the lit major requirements of the album in one fell swoop.
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This is all set to Live's "Lightning Crashes," and we really hear the lyric, "the angel opens her eyes" and it's maybe a little too on the nose for this situation.
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He was appearing on the show to promote his new Planet of the Apes movie, which feels a bit on the nose when you remember how the original 1968 version ended.
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One quip that didn't quite land, maybe because it was a little too on the nose: A joke that Trump would undo last year's turkey pardons simply because Obama did it.
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Now you don't have to wait for your writing group to sound off on which line is the least on-the-nose — just put everything in and figure it out later.
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Will you taunt them with an empty milk dispenser machine (the correct answer is yes), or be super on-the-nose and hang up a bunch of cat paintings (also yes)?
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Frustrated that he'd missed an extra point during the second quarter, Carpenter threw his helmet on the ground – and it bounced right back up at him, hitting him on the nose.
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The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star shared a sweet photo on Saturday of her 2-year-old son giving his 10-week-old sister Chicago a kiss on the nose.
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You want to be relevant, but not too on the nose; topical, but not so much that whatever you buy will lose meaning by the time the new year rolls around.
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As we all tittered at Chuck's just-a-little-too-on-the-nose costume, however, Bernie Sanders (or, more likely, his social media team) was furiously clacking away at the keyboard.
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The director uses the film's first few minutes to introduce his main characters with a barrage of on-the-nose music cues that are apparently supposed to double as character development.
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I think the song is so on-the-nose about a breakup, I think it's too obvious for me to have a video where it's me and some guy breaking up.
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If market expectations are on the nose, the central bank will push its key overnight lending rate up another quarter point, which in turn should boost borrowing costs across the economy.
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It's a little on-the-nose when paired with Killian's line, but the other works in this space realign the conversation toward the action of looking at something mysterious, even divine.
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It isn't an on-the-nose political moment, but I can only hope that the fundamental politics being shown here of its central game will resonate with viewers of the series.
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"It was called 'The Puppy Episode' because we wanted to keep it a secret until it aired and because 'Ellen Throws Her Career Away' seemed too on the nose," she quips.
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That's right: As we reported earlier, a Tesla Roadster playing David Bowie's "Life On Mars" (a little on the nose, Elon) is soaring through space and headed toward – where else – Mars.
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This was not too long after the so-called "Travel Ban" had first been signed, so the Exodus story of refugees trying to find a home was pretty on the nose.
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There's an appetite for it in 2018, but on the other hand, in music it seems like anything that's too overtly political or on the nose makes people kind of shrink.
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You get the feeling there should at least be an echoing whistle and the clanging of a church bell, but then the Sergio Leone homage would be too on the nose.
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"No, it is not embarrassing, it is motor racing and sometimes you've got to take a slap on the nose, on the chin as you say, and learn," said the Austrian.
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A young boy with autism who asked Vice President Mike Pence to apologize for accidentally "bopping" him on the nose became the target of Fox News hosts during a recent segment.
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The symbolism—new order sprouting up in the derelict precincts of the old—was on the nose, as was the vibe: food trucks, local craft beers, a "Zen Zone" meditation tent.
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On the one hand, an ABC sitcom building an entire episode around an Oscars viewing party the week ABC is set to broadcast the Oscars is a little on the nose.
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As much as The Walking Dead is a vague, often jumbled metaphor for fighting social ills, this exchange is almost a bit too on the nose for the current cultural moment.
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I'm not the biggest fan of the "violence could be in his DNA" line, as it's a bit on the nose and does a little too much telling instead of showing.
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It's a warning in the eye of a hurricane, too goofy in its aesthetics to register as art, and too on-the-nose in its storytelling to land as a metaphor.
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Griffin's boxer's fracture, meanwhile—reportedly the result of an evening of ribbing that he found excessive—is an almost too on-the-nose metaphor for how Clippers seasons tend to end.
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During a game I played in downtown Vegas, one of my dice banked off a wall, hit a player on the nose and bounced back onto the table, hitting the point.
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When the producers of "In Search Of" approached Zachary Quinto about headlining a reboot, he felt it might be a little too on the nose — or, in this case, the ears.
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Having Joe sing "Hurricane," Mr. McPherson admitted, is "a bit on the nose," calling the character and song choice "a prehistoric throwback" to his first attempts to dramatize Mr. Dylan's work.
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The same word could apply to her nemesis and dinner-party sparring partner, a rich and powerful real estate developer with the slightly too on-the-nose name of Doug Strutt.
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Gowanus sticks out like a sore thumb because of its heavily polluted canal, and the current gentrification of the Brooklyn area makes a $188 silk dress a little too on the nose.
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It looks a little like the trailer for The Purge: Election Year, which came out in the summer of 2016 and already felt a little on the nose in that political climate.
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The thing that I think makes me most uncomfortable here is how on the nose the dystopian world seems to be, relying on some maybe slightly too exaggerated parallels to current technology.
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It's obviously got a fair amount of humor because I don't like anything too on the nose but it's also got a sense of vulnerability of where we are as a country.
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He is recast here as a black man, which allows him to give a speech that is perhaps a little too on-the-nose about how man's world has abused him, too.
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The Kushner Company is badly over-leveraged—it owns half of the $1.2 billion dollar mortgage, which is due in 18 months, on a hilariously on-the-nose 666 Fifth Avenue tower.
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This metaphor is fairly on the nose too—the album opens with audio of 2 Chainz being announced as part of the starting lineup at one of his high school basketball games.
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" Though the better choice for celebration music would arguably have been Michael Jackson's "Will You Be There (Free Willy)," the crowd opted for the more on-the-nose Raffi hit "Baby Beluga.
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By the way, the music choice here is perfect, if a little on the nose: Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" reminds us that Offred may be Alice, but this place is no Wonderland.
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The embrace of an alleged child predator for the sake of passing a massive tax giveaway to the wealthy is a plotline so on-the-nose it would be rejected by Veep.
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That set the stage for Sunday's final half-hour, which, like the episodes that preceded it, felt a bit too on the nose -- too neat and tidy by "Girls'" normally messy standards.
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It may have been a little too on the nose when it came out (in 2007, one could hardly be blamed for suffering from Bush-bashing fatigue, however justified the criticisms were).
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It's a bit on the nose for the narrative she's trying to sell fans: that she's shed the vindictive vibe that marked previous album, Reputation, and she's moved onto nicer, prettier things.
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We did shoot more—we did have more explicit revelations toward the conclusion—but when we did hit it on the nose, the film seemed to lose its power and its weight.
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So very-not-fun, in fact, that last year Twitter implemented its first direct message filter (given the rather on-the-nose title Quality Filter) for accounts open to DMs from anyone.
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A portion of the jokes are explicitly feminist, and they tend to be on the nose and to feel obligatory ("Your first mistake was to educate her," a counselor tells the king).
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Additionally, in response to an error message indicating possible failures in angle-of-attack information, they replaced the angle-of-attack vane on the nose of the airplane on the captain's side.
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It's a 60%/40% blend of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from Roederer's own vineyards, which are mostly biodynamic, lending a powerful palate with hints of citrus and stone fruit on the nose.
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I was with it until there was a joke about refusing to erase the Nixon tapes which maybe was a little too on the nose given this past year's voice-recording scandals.
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But before bitterness could fully calcify my sense of wonder, I received an unexpected and much-needed dose of enchantment, administered by a rather on-the-nose source: Blake Valentine, The Singing Magician.
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It is like writing a school or university essay: you might think it's a bit on the nose to keep explicitly relating your content to the title but subtlety doesn't check the boxes.
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" Indiewire: "Even without its mopey, painfully on-the-nose dialogue and ponderous story, The Last Face sets itself up for failure with its premise, and Penn's apparent inability to recognize it as such.
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" Ms. Anderson remembers her entry (May 2, "The Day of Human Observation") as being "very on the nose about how I felt about myself: You're fun and productive, but also a dictator, basically.
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Paul Krugman The New York Times columnist, economist and on-the-nose curmudgeon carefully and methodically debunks each one of Trump's obscene assertions about the economy with — get ready for it — actual facts.
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To his credit, he doesn't hit '80s nostalgia on the nose: the movie is set in the present, and it tries to make some points about divisiveness, cruelty, and bullying in our world.
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All of this makes sense as Charmed mom Marisol is a women's studies professor and the pilot centers around a very #MeToo collegiate scandal, which then takes an on-the-nose supernatural turn.
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Far Cry 5 is peppered with on-the-nose references, like a corrupt politician who wants to "make Hope County great again" and a side quest that involves the apocryphal Trump pee tape.
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Last week, the reality star shared a sweet photo of her son giving his baby sister Chicago — who made her debut on Kardashian West's Instagram Story in February — a kiss on the nose.
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" "Red and white might be the colours of our flag, but I tend not to dress too on the nose on National Day because I don't like to be limited by two colours!
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So they just stood there, falling apart before our eyes, an on-the-nose metaphor for indifference toward those who had been forgotten in the transition from a manufacturing to a service economy.
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This film isn't perfect — the international crisis caused by the aliens' arrival is a little too on the nose, as is Louise's last minute save-the-day interaction with the Chinese foreign minister.
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It was almost too on the nose: What better symbol could there be for the delicate ecosystem of global capitalism, supposedly held aloft by the "invisible hand" but actually propped up by force?
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"If you can bop it on the nose with your fist, it likely will veer away and, once again, you hopefully will have enough time to get out of the water," he said.
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Some of those forces are a bit on the nose; it's impossible to ignore the political context of "137" and its playground-esque chant about nuclear war, but it's hardly a political song.
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Emma Stone's flapper gown is weirdly not quite as good as her star-studded Golden Globes look, and it's perhaps a little on-the-nose for a nostalgic fantasy like La La Land.
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The 'SNL' vets came out standing shoulder-to-shoulder Monday night and threw zinger after zinger after zinger at the board -- most of which were so on the nose and didn't really stick.
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So a beautiful pulled right hand on the nose means every bit as much as Ko Matsuhisa spasmodic scorpion kick: a technique which is unlikely to hurt anyone except the man attempting it.
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That person was Young Thug, who was more on-the-nose by literally calling his song "MLK" but decided to invite Trouble and Shad da God to join in on the revolution, too.
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Assembled by the numbers and filmed (by John Pardue) as if it matters, "Finding Your Feet" boasts an embarrassingly on-the-nose soundtrack and plot twists you can see coming without your bifocals.
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While she sat around various lobbies and cafeterias while Nesterenko had meetings, we were treated to a lengthy, somewhat on-the-nose flashback that positioned and buttressed her 11th-hour change of heart.
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But even by those standards, Spider-Man: Far From Home, the second film starring Tom Holland as Spidey, feels particularly on the nose as a movie about teens fighting what threatens the world.
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Viola Davis (who is 'Queen Viola' for me) hit it on the nose when she accepted her Emmy and alluded to the fact that you cannot win awards for roles that are not written.
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To my mild discomfort, my colleague Jonathan Martin's and my blogs were actually illustrated with on-the-nose pen-and-ink caricatures of ourselves sitting on a wooden fence watching a literal horse race.
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My thanks to the writer of this episode, Meg Marinis, for acknowledging that giving a brain surgeon a brain tumor is too on the nose of Grey's trauma porn history to even be ironic.
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This is the closest a full moon has to come to hitting perigee on the nose since January 26th, 1948, and the closest it will come for another 18 years, until November 25th, 2034.
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A pair of the original Decades is currently listed on eBay for the too on-the-nose asking price of $6,660, though Jankun says there's no way anyone should or will pay that much.
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John Oliver as a well-meaning and loyal hornbill who, even though he's a bird, definitely looks like he needs glasses, is some of the most on-the-nose casting I've seen in years.
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I think it devoted too much time to watching the actual television; it's a little on-the-nose for a show that usually prefers to drop a prescient piece of information and keep moving.
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On-the-nose moments like that — there are many — sometimes left me feeling that "Mary Page Marlowe," however gorgeously acted, might not be hiding much of anything in the switchbacks of its distorted chronology.
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It gets even worse: The rockets launched from the system appear to have fins on the nose, indicating that they may actually act more like guided missiles than "dumb" rockets that land without precision.
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Fiction FrankisssteinA Love StoryBy Jeanette Winterson Despite its on-the-nose title, "Frankissstein" (which was longlisted for this year's Booker Prize) is far, far more than a reimagining of Mary Shelley's 19th-century monsterpiece.
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At a time when cultural and political identity is in disruptive flux in Britain (and most of Europe, and that big place across the Atlantic), Mr. Stoppard's opalescent uncertainty feels alarmingly on the nose.
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That home, called Keyhouse (please don't dwell too long on the on-the-nose naming conventions) is a sprawling New England estate that also happens to be home to a number of magical keys.
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The crew of a low-budget zombie flick is getting antsy: They're shooting at an abandoned water plant that once hosted military experiments, and the spooky location is a little too on the nose.
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Also in the park are an FBI agent (Jon Hamm) and the ambitious Scruggs (Olivia Wilde), who are a little too on the nose in grousing about the lack of pizzazz in their assignments.
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Packed with skimpily-clothed women and on-the-nose musical choices, this lurid melodrama adds to Wednesday's burdens with a junkie mother (an occasionally touching Aunjanue Ellis) and a murderous rival, Kenny (Edi Gathegi).
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Maverick, true to his extremely on-the-nose callsign, is always getting into trouble for breaking the rules and acting recklessly, but we're always promptly reminded that he's incredible at flying that damn plane.
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TPWC's new facility seems to have an on-the-nose (no pun intended) awareness that traditional wine tasting doesn't always do enough to impress the young, alt bourgeoisie, with their Parachute sheets and vinyl collections.
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Sacks was attempting to raise $24,25 for the quest to remove the rat, which he describes on the campaign as a "painfully on the nose metaphor" that ruins the ending of an otherwise great film.
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And if it felt too on-the-nose when he covered "Creep" at Coachella 2008, it was an undeniably affecting performance, as Prince transformed the song from an outsider's lament to a ballad of inclusion.
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For them, sudden exposure to sunlight triggers a condition called photic sneeze reflex, also called "sun sneezing," or the unbelievably on-the-nose backronym Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helioopthalmic Outburst (ACHOO)—unavoidable, sometimes painful, nasal outbursts.
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Another attempt to offer gifts resulted in a tribesman shooting an arrow straight through Chau's waterproof Bible, the symbolism so on the nose that another person might have taken it for a sign from above.
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And Harry Styles has officially launched his solo career, well on his way to being one of the biggest pop stars we've ever seen, with the most on-the-nose Jagger blouses in the world.
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Laurie, even after that (rather on the nose) phone call from Jill as she prepared to dive, still straps on her mask and drops over the side of the boat with only a second's hesitation.
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Looks Like Sonos Is Making Some New Smart SpeakersA new filing with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has revealed some details about a new …Read more ReadIn general, Sonos leaks are pretty on-the-nose.
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And the play's tragic arc does not exactly make tyrannicide look like the wisest of strategies, even if the director is crude and on-the-nose enough to dress his Cassius for the Women's March.
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"One of the beauties of End is that I realized very early on that the more on the nose we were with the music, the funnier it was, the better it was," Entwistle told Refinery29.
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While somewhat on the nose as allegory, the movie deftly illustrates that a culture of collaboration — whether in Bratislava in the 1980s or, indeed, any political or workplace context — requires active participation, even if subconscious.
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Unlike with launches actually designed to reach a specific orbit, timing doesn't have to be quite as on the nose, so there's more flexibility in terms of making the decision to proceed or stand down.
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Here's just one: A weaned harbor seal pup was resting onshore when an untagged male sea otter approached it, grasped it with its teeth and forepaws, bit it on the nose, and flipped it over.
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In its TV iteration, the story's dual timelines and thematic focus on dual selves mesh well with the kind of meticulous (if sometimes a little too on the nose) imagery that Esmail is known for.
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Relying too often on blasts of on-the-nose vintage pop music from the likes of Tom Jones and the Turtles, the director, James Marsh, struggles to inject an excitement that no one is feeling.
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"Baby Shark" hits these three criteria almost too on the nose which is probably why I can't stop listening to it, but also probably why it fills me with utter horror every time I do.
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Envisaging this as basically "Ladies Night" on steroids, with career-best verses from everyone and an extremely expensive and on-the-nose music video with power suits and shoulder pads set in a boardroom or something.
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They're mostly solid songs, but you're sitting there politely waiting for them to be over, hoping that he'll play "Cinnamon Girl" or "Hey Hey, My My." Of course, the latter would've been too on the nose.
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Though this one is more on-the-nose than most of these stories, the message is always the same: The rest of the country is going to be left to clean up the mess he's making.
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Page has reportedly been funding one startup, named... Elon Musk has never shied away from comparisons with superhero Tony Stark, but his most recent joke on the subject is pretty on the nose, even for him.
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Yet the opportunity to have the writer experience his own Scrooge-like epiphany -- including flashbacks to his youth, and examining the complicated relationship with his freeloading father (Jonathan Pryce) -- feel a little too on the nose.
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But it is impossible to accurately guess what the market will do with your company once it goes public; therefore, you cannot price your shares perfectly to ensure, say, a 10 percent bounce on the nose.
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Even though this prediction feels incredibly on-the-nose, it's important to remember that on more than one occasion Browne also told grieving parents that their missing children were dead when, in fact, they were not.
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Either way, being doomed because of a middle finger is a little on-the-nose as far as the Lions go, so let's hope Detroit can prolong the inevitable sadness for at least a few weeks.
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And when, in her attempts to climb out, she brings her injured hand down, full force, on a nail sticking up out of the ground, the Jesus imagery is more than a little on the nose.
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Those instruments, on the nose of the plane, gauge the degree of an aircraft's ascent or descent and help determine whether the plane might be stalling — meaning it is pointed too high for its current speed.
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I put on a bit of makeup: Vichy mineral 30 gel, Fenty foundation, a bit of under-eye concealer, a dash of powder on the nose and forehead, blush, a bit of eye crayon and lipstick.
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They are well-placed alongside Gilhooly's "Classic Frog Pot," Betty Bailey's "Goddess of Nut" (1972) (an on-the-nose homage to the longevity of Nut), and Peeples-Bright's fractal yet kindly monsters in "SeaSaw Beasts" (1965).
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For those of you who find sending nude photos or adopting a nudist lifestyle a little too on-the-nose, you can still pay homage to this venerable holiday by participating in a naked run this summer.
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Not to suggest that HBO's Watchmen is one of those on-the-nose Trump-era allegories, but: The show's vision of 2019 America has a movie star in the White House, many years longer than is appropriate.
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First, the cause (as in, why the hell does it happen in the first place?): "A combination of dehydration and slow cell reproduction contribute to this look on the nose and cheeks," explains dermatologist Kenneth Mark, MD.
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The gills on the nose, the illuminated slats in the two-tier headlights, and the pinchers that make up the car's chin all work together to give it a look that's equal parts sea creature and spaceship.
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It doesn't stop there -- one aspiring entrepreneur hopes to brew up some "Alternative Facts" beer, while another dreams of creating an "Alternative Facts" live news program related to politics ... which might be a little on the nose.
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This doesn't become a problem until the big final battle of the film which utilizes a painfully on-the-nose needle drop of No Doubt's "I'm Just A Girl" while Carol fights off a group of villains.
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" The 2013 tune is about as on the nose as you can get ... featuring a phone convo between Aubrey and a guy, with her asking him, "You want to believe that everything with me was a lie?
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Except for the Bakers, who are played with devastating heart by Kate Walsh and Brian D'Arcy James, the adults on 13 Reasons Why are awfully one-dimensional and a little too on-the-nose with their negligence.
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Shelby shows up at the Miles residence, and Ken, who has a beef with him, clonks him on the nose; soon the two of them are slugging it out on a patch of grass across the street.
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Sure, calling an album American Dream may be a little too on the nose, but LCD's defeated synth doo-wop "american dream" is a clever rumination on the wake-up that really follows an all-out bender.
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Some of the tracks are a bit too on the nose ("It's a Street Fight" and "Rap Commando") and MC Hammer and Deion Sanders should never again make music together (or individually?), but generally the concept works.
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Sometimes, this practice doesn't fall under the "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" camp; it can be just slightly too on-the-nose — and there's usually someone quickly calling out the copycat effect on social media.
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So, a track like "Hidden Truth", while a little too on the nose for a track title, was me working with wanting to be out (uses a vocal sample that to me sounded like "It's true Mama").
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But it's his vague circlings around the specific themes of his work, vacillating between the abstractly poetic and on-the-nose elevated realism, that have been the appeal of the Destroyer project for its 22 year existence.
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People on Twitter have chimed in to say why McCain's reaction is just a hair too far, but also why her favor towards Daenerys is spot on the nose, so much so that it's become a meme.
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This is a fairly on-the-nose reference: Lara Jean is intensely similar to Molly Ringwald's shy Samantha, who feels forgotten and who similarly struggles when an intimate piece of her own writing reaches an unintended recipient.
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It's a little on-the-nose for a show about a powerful chair to use the song "Sit Down" in a trailer, but that's what Game of Thrones did to us with the latest taste of Season 230.
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If you were to match a particular coach to a particular candidate in the Carnival of Sadness that is this year's Republican Primary, you could not get much more on the nose than Rex Ryan and Donald Trump.
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The storytelling can be a bit too on the nose — like graffiti calling Ash "the paint nerd" — and the controls can be strangely complex at times, particularly in the last chapter when the game gets more action-heavy.
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In an incredibliy on-the-nose metaphor for this phenomenon, French digital artist Pierre Buttin has melded 1,000 pictures of Tinder profiles into 10 glitchy explosions of color for his new media project entitled Ten Days on Tinder.
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The metaphors in RoboCop are over the top and a little bit ridiculous when surrounded by cheesy one liners and '80s action, but the lessons you can take from them are so on the nose it's almost scary.
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But when he ends the video theorizing that, although the iPad is a new product category, "millions upon millions of people are going... to know how to use this," his prediction couldn't have been more on the nose.
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While Handmaid's has been a little too on-the-nose with its music in the past, Season 3 went way over the edge in making its song choices do work that should have been done by the script.
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Straight Tennessee Bourbon $49.99 750 milliliters 90 proof On the nose, this is a classic, no-fuss bourbon, though with more oak-derived notes — think caramel, vanilla and wood char — than you'd expect from a seven-year-old.
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"We expect to come in bang on the nose in and around a deficit of 0.2 percent this year as projected, with the good things being counteracted by overruns in other areas," Prime Minister Leo Varadkar told parliament.
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Your post-apocalyptic road trip as biker dude Deacon St. John runneth over with on-the-nose metaphors, emotionally manipulative twists, and character motivations that seem driven more by the needs of the moment than any coherent arc.
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You could argue that the way the writers gave Elizabeth her own Martha situation, right after the actual Martha situation, was a little on the nose — I'd argue that, actually — but it was well handled all the same.
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While it can be too on-the-nose for some, the realistic and brutal characterization of Succession's media monsters is appealing for many working in media who find catharsis in keeping up with the chaos of the Roys.
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If the change sounds eye-rolly — a little too on-the-nose Gen Z — consider that the messages received by the women are reminiscent of something out of an incel forum or a particularly awful troll's Twitter account.
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This staging was typically on-the-nose—Kanye dressed in dark clothing in his glass prison, looking down on the public; Cudi, in a huge white jacket, circling him like a redeeming angel—but undeniably compelling to watch.
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But Ingrid Goes West evades that fate with on-the-nose detail (Joan Didion quotes, Edward Sharpe-inspired nuptials, "girl crushes," fluttering-heart emoji, poached eggs) and a complicated antiheroine that puts Plaza at the top of her game.
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All four were Chinese, and two walked during a section that paid homage to traditional Chinese culture with dragons and phoenix wings that many on Chinese social media criticized as both out-of-touch and too on-the-nose.
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Boris Paskhover, a facial plastic surgeon at Rutgers University and author on the nose job paper, warned, "Any time people are using a front facing camera at close proximity — for FaceTime, SnapChat, Instagram," it's going to change their face.
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And if the framing seems a bit on-the-nose ("You should think about changing the team name to X-Women," one female character huffs) — well, at least Dark Phoenix seems to be striving for emotional and cultural resonance.
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One such example, at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, in Hamburg, is the head of a young boy, from the first century B.C.; patches of mahogany-colored paint can still be seen on the nose and the cheeks.
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And while designers are at it, make the non-flag surfaces of the plane gold-plated, and add a diamond on the nose of the plane to let the world know that America is going to win -- a lot.
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Directed by Dome Karukoski from a script by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford, this picture about the pre-fame days of the author of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" teems with many on-the-nose moments.
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Sure, the song is on the nose, but as we've been saying all season, this chapter of The Americans is really about how this line of work takes its toll on the people involved, on an incredibly personal level.
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Though class and sensibility play a role in their tension, the real problems between the roommates pivot on questions of gender and sexuality, questions to which I found Wayne's approach at once overly cagey and too on-the-nose.
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The former Rosemount engineer expressed astonishment that Boeing had originally designed the anti-stall software, known as the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS, to draw from only one of two AoA sensors on the nose of the plane.
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I understand the symbolism and all, but maybe spending a long time digging a hole so deep that you probably can't escape it — while knowing you'll lose friends along the way — is a little on-the-nose, The Americans.
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He was lightly burned on the nose and shoulders, and there were other clues that he'd recently been at a beach: semi-dreadlocks looked sandy, and he wore strings and a couple of amulets and shells around his neck.
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As someone who kinda likes them in theory — I appreciate the jarring wakeup from the hypnotic world of the show — the fourth episode helped me pinpoint why they mostly don't work in practice: They're way too on the nose.
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Contouring on the nose is a must for the Grammy-nominated rapper, who uses the Anastasia Beverly Hills Contour Kit in Medium/Tan for sculpting and Black Opal True Color Skin Perfecting Stick Foundation in Beautiful Bronze on face and nose.
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It feels more like an on-the-nose celebration of classic New York flavors than the real thing, but it's the only place in town that offers anything close to the food I associate with coming of age in New York.
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And The Meg seems to be playing the tone exactly right, at least based on the marketing – leaning into the utter cheesiness of the premise with punny taglines ("pleased to eat you") and on-the-nose song choices ("Beyond the Sea").
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Of course, Weinstein likely didn't have any creative say on this scene and it's unclear how pointed Wes Craven and writer Ehren Kruger were being, but it's hard to miss this bizarrely on-the-nose character in a rewatch today.
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Beneath its "serious grown-up science fiction" trappings of nudity and sexual violence, Altered Carbon is less incisive than the equally heavy-handed young adult series The Hunger Games, which mixed on-the-nose class commentary with genuine futuristic weirdness.
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Ahem. Now that I've finally managed to undig my fingers from my eye sockets, it's time for our re/cap of HBO's "Silicon Valley," the insider sitcom that's so on the nose, it might as well be a giant funny zit.
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Steinberg and Kriegman are there for every second of the catastrophic campaign, and while their style is a little on the nose at times—as dramatists, they tend to underline their big moments even when it's unnecessary—you won't mind.
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In some of the booths, enormous stainless-steel machines touted features like "vaveless expansion technology"; giant glass flask and beaker rigs towered over their sales teams like props that would seem too on-the-nose in a mad scientist laboratory scene.
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The sadness was so obvious and over the top that if you were to pitch photos of it as set designs for the Penguin's lair in a Christopher Nolan Batman movie, they would be rejected for being too on the nose.
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Honestly, it does make sense that a character who probably spends his days hacking fellow barbarians to death would get down with Dying Fetus and Bloodbath (a little on the nose, there) so kudos to whatever mortal assembled this playlist.
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She makes an instant lust connection with their chief seller, Jake (Shia LaBeouf) in a grocery store, to the tune of Rihanna's on-the-nose hit "We Found Love," and when they invite her to join them, she hops on board.
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Accordingly, the album pays sonic homage to American youth philosophers like Bruce Springsteen, The Replacements, and Blonde on Blonde-era Dylan, but avoids feeling too on-the-nose, thanks to an undercurrent of anxious, go-for-broke energy that's all Dane.
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But the difference comes down to Simons's approach, which is largely predicated on making the type of subculture-tinged uniform that youth in rebellion want to wear and aspire to create, not on-the-nose marketing that speaks their language.
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Many of the series' most jarring moments happen when it explores, with on-the-nose shrewdness, how hard it is to upend the status quo, to shake people out of their belief that everything is fine, and create a real revolt.
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At the bottom of this crater, two high-tech societies remain, eking out a doomed existence — and here Farley meets the literal woman of his dreams, a perfect match for the cheesecake image drawn on the nose of his bomber.
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Harrowing, visually striking, and almost too on the nose for the current sociopolitical moment, It Comes at Night is one of the best films of the year and a triumphant installment in studio A24's continuing run of superb horror.
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When Hodgson was eating dinner with the England squad at Euro 2016, he was probably there, sipping away at a nice, stemmed glass of Bordeaux, commenting on the nose, the flavours, the soft texture and the subtle notes of blackberry and plum.
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These people all seemed to know each other, and share the same understanding of the city's unspoken young professionals' mores, and all somehow had a line that was better, smarter, and more on-the-nose than the one that came before it.
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Watching two greasy softbellies swing-and-a-miss at each other until fatigue sets in and they both collapse, wheezing, on their decaying ass-ham bodies would be an apt, if on-the-nose, metaphor for the puppet-show state of American affairs.
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This one is a little on the nose (get it?), but this Homesick Candle is the perfect scent for your dad to relive his days of outdoor festivals in the park and long nights listening to his favorite records with his pals.
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My inspiration isn't so on the nose, but I'll look at a painting and I'll think wow, I really love fire engine red paired with pale pink, and that can inspire the pillows I buy for my couch or something like that.
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It's a goofy sketch that's on the nose, but it highlights the speculation that Bezos and Amazon's selections were motivated by a desire to deliver a giant middle finger to the president, who has been a frequent critic of Bezos and his company.
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The on-the-nose name offers up the basics of what you need to know about the new product, an all-white headset reminiscent of a VR peripheral designed to offer up first-person views shot by the company's newly announced foldable quadcopter.
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Find alternatives that don't injure or scare your woman; do not shake coffee cans full of loose change at her, smack her on the nose with a newspaper (you can't trust them anyway), or rub her nose in the aborted uterine lining.
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William has gone full black hat (literally, picking up a black hat off a corpse for some on-the-nose symbolism), murdering his way across the countryside and also, for some reason, making Logan (Ben Barnes) ride naked while holding a feather.
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Or you could make a bowl of everything bagel dip, basically a deconstructed morning everything bagel with schmear, suitable for use with raw vegetables or potato chips, pretzels — even bagel chips though I think that's either too meta or too on-the-nose.
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Part of that rehabilitation project was the purchase of a flagship building in Manhattan — 666 Fifth Avenue, an absurdly on-the-nose address — for which the family paid a record amount at the very height of the real estate market in 2007.
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Check. But there was something a little too on the nose, forgive me please, about those robocalls in Alabama from a mythical Washington Post reporter named Bernstein seeking women to dish dirt on Roy Moore, something too "Jewy" to be actually Jewish.
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The plot is a maybe a bit too on the nose in the way it drives this point home – Turner's inevitable love interest is Katie (Mary McCusker), a local veterinarian who operates out of her home – but is that really a problem?
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Chukwu's writing can sometimes be too on the nose, spelling out the already obvious, but for the most part she doesn't over-explain Anthony, whose despairing resignation and profound isolation Hodge fills in with a discreetly shutdown physicality and a gaze turned inward.
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However, early on it was the smaller challenger who appeared the more inspired by the occasion, despite the constant boos and jeers from the partisan crowd, and he caught the Briton late in the first round with an uppercut on the nose.
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Giving Harvard students privileged access to potential presidents because the wealthy Institute of Policy (which recently gave fellowships to Trumpworld figures Corey Lewandowski and Sean Spicer) partnered with CNN was an on-the-nose example of power and social status buying political access.
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But if this all seems eerily on the nose and darkly political, fear not: There are also plenty of fantastic beasts in abundance, including a phoenix and what looks like a cute little magical praying mantis/plant hybrid known as a Bowtruckle.
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As the man clearly had no problem with things being too on-the-nose — he literally performed the "Learning to Fly" music video on the wings of an airplane — it wouldn't be too dubious to say Tom Petty might have actually been a king.
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"My hair is dark, so I look evil, and I'm wearing white, which is ironic," Rebecca tells a conference table of her co-workers in the new season 3 trailer, after swirling around in her office chair in an on-the-nose movie-villain move.
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The DC films take a slightly different approach; 2013's Man of Steel received wide criticism for some of the most on-the-nose imagery as yet seen in a film about 93/11, making even the deliberate allegory War of the Worlds look subtle.
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Since Patty's death, she's served as a literal manifestation of Kevin's guilt, and it's never been more on-the-nose here, where, in a locked-down room, she serves as his mouthpiece, telling him about the planned nuclear event and why it's so important.
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This is the triumph of the improbable, the example to children everywhere that in sports, achievement starts with believing and can become reality through the process of hard work, of collective spirit, of daring to punch the giants on the nose and outrun them.
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Yet "Battle of the Sexes" is considerably stronger off the court than on it, volleying back and forth between the personal lives of its two combatants, in a fashion that nicely humanizes both while occasionally feeling a tad heavy-handed and on the nose.
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The writing runs the risk of being somewhat on the nose—but nothing in this game feels out of place or anything other than an earnest attempt to examine the role of protest and freedom of the press in an increasingly toxic and authoritarian landscape.
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In interviews with the creators, he's often referred to as "the colossus," yet his "given" name after he emerges from the rubble completely naked is "Johnson," a name too on the nose to be considered an oversight by anyone involved in the creative process.
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The establishment of the villain, Richie is just as on-the-nose moments later when he announces he has some scores to settle, then murders Bobby in the following scene and randomly guns down a woman for honking at him in traffic moments later.
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There were two that were a bit on the nose — one in which we were locked in a room of feathers to emphasize just how light the shoe is, and another where we bounced on a trampoline to demonstrate the springiness of its sole.
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The villains of Suicide Squad are the cynical marketing campaign targeting that demographic and a studio so anxious to impress, it stoops to an on-the-nose soundtrack that uses "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" as shorthand instead of building mood organically.
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It's a frustratingly shallow performance, in which the actor and his director focus on flashy surfaces (his comically on-the-nose tattoos include the words "Damaged" and "HAHAHAHA") rather than plumbing the depths and darkness that made the Joker so memorable in the first place.
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The song selections were a little on the nose tonight, but the juxtaposition of James Brown's "Living in America" with the Saigon backdrop was rousing, as was the plaintive cover of David Bowie's "Life on Mars" as an introduction to the revived Dr. Manhattan.
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But it's also terrifying, and rummaging through magazines and emails reveals that the United States was broken up into smaller countries (with Texas apparently being the center of a little-too-on-the-nose "Freedom Republic" ) and there was a Tibetan genocide in the 2050s.
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When an unidentified object hit a British Airways A320 on the nose on its approach to Heathrow last month, the encounter was widely believed the fault of some dope who had flown his drone into busy airspace, endangering the lives of the 137 people aboard the jet.
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And had things ended with Miller standing on top of a mound of dirt, half-heartedly brushing the dust off his waterproof, it would have been a perfectly good (if slightly on-the-nose) stand-in for his struggle with, and difficult recovery from, alcohol dependency.
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Yet Kaling's script frequently proves too on-the-nose in tackling those issues, beginning with the thinly veiled hazing to which Molly is subjected, and the dismissive way she's treated by the writing staff, which includes characters played by Reid Scott ("Veep") and Hugh Dancy ("Hannibal").
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Double-check. Sure, spirit fingers and on-the-nose reprises were there, too, but Missy Mazzoli's stark Breaking the Waves, with its libretto by Royce Vavrek, makes a strong case for the artisanal revival of the medium—provided you don't let its theatrical conventions get to you.
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It's all a bit on the nose but it did result in the neologism "#yeehouse," which essentially seems to mean the sort of MOR dance-pop Diplo's been doing on his own over the last half-decade or so with a sorta twangy vocal on top.
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And we finally got to realize his dream yesterday as Canadian politics transformed itself into the perfect middle ground between the petty Machiavellian genius of Armando Iannucci's English political satire, The Thick of It, and his more broad and on-the-nose American political satire, Veep.
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He was released on parole in December 2016, and is featured on a new As I Lay Dying single, "My Own Grave" (the title of which seems a little on the nose, given, you know, the attempted wife murder thing) which dropped on June 8, 2018.
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Day 19: "I Can't Feel My Face" – Da Drought 3, 2007 It's weird to think that, with the passage of time, a reference so perfectly on the nose that it alone was proof of unqualified brilliance might now not even make sense to a new generation.
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Other than arranging for a giant boxing glove with the words " bitter irony " stitched on the front to come bursting out of the cinema screen on an extendable arm and whop me on the nose, there's not much more that Freundlich could do to signal his intentions.
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During its tenure as the Garden Diner and Café—you may know it by its original moniker, the (a little on-the-nose) "Bartertown Diner"—the café prided itself on forgoing a tipping system, paying its employees a living wage, and eschewing the concept of management.
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I am a creative, so I think too much about romance (again, this was true: sex and love in equal parts) and I'm desperately keen to see a big project that I'd been working on for a long time come to fruition (also on the nose).
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"One thing that I've learned is that the only thing that's different between immersive theater and any kind of good storytelling is that you can be a little more on-the-nose," explains Sears, noting that the medium's "live" nature adds an extra layer of verisimilitude.
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What all the images share in common is a sense of tranquility and a low-to-modest challenge level, so as the rather on-the-nose name suggests, this really is a great choice for the adult-looking for a way to relax and destress through coloring.
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In a trademark on-the-nose bit of anti-capitalist pranking, the street artist Banksy apparently destroyed one of his own iconic Girl with Balloon paintings when it shredded itself into ribbons immediately after being auctioned at Sotheby's for the casual price of £860,000 ($1.1 million).
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While it can be good to include symbols, themes, or lyrical ideas from songs in the visuals for concerts, usually a more compelling approach for us is for the visual concept to breathe new perspective into the songs performed, rather than being an on-the-nose interpretation.
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Humberto Leon's costumes may have been a little on the nose, emblazoned with "Defy" and "Shout," but that didn't detract from Mr. Peck's strikingly inventive steps or his boldness in creating gender-neutral roles for two central duets, a rarity in ballet and a refreshing statement.
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"Love" wasn't meant to be funny, but some audiences snickered at its more sophomoric sex scenes, in particular a threesome with an innocent blond next-door neighbor, a porn convention so on the nose, wocka-wocka guitar and all, it had to be a spoof, right?
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Waters's use of these tropes is very on-the-nose: the unreliability of her narrator, staid country doctor Dr. Faraday (played in the film with rigid calculation by Domhnall Gleeson), announces itself from the first page, and the layers of psychosexual tension and frustration between her characters are thick.
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Though virtually everything about Facebook is centered around getting users to share as much as possible so they can sell extremely effective targeted ads—the site now controls over a fifth of digital ad dollars and has terrifying marketing profiles on users—this seems a little on the nose.
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And now here we have Arie being un-deaded into 2017, a time when reality shows stream simultaneously across many tributaries of Instagram posts and tweets and clapbacks and comments, and when, if the "real" Bachelor isn't on, we can tune into eerily on-the-nose episodes of UnREAL.
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But while the song's "Leave the horror here" line is a neat, albeit on-the-nose touch given all that's happened to Max, as she picks herself up to move on, the composition just felt too sharp, too clean, for me, to really fit the scene in question.
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Captioned: "Hashem and his favorite man" (referring to Hashem's father and Queen Rania's husband, King Abdullah, 53), the 2006 snapshot shows the royal dad receiving a playful kiss on the nose from the youngest of his four children – whose hair has noticeably darkened since the picture was taken.
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Cardinals LF Matt Holliday was in the lineup Friday, one day after being grazed on the nose by a pitch, but went 0-for-7 while Dodgers OF Yasiel Puig made a pinch-hitting appearance after leaving the team's game on Thursday with tightness in his right hamstring. 2.
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" The level of groupthink on display is so glaring—so on-the-nose—that the video, created by Deadspin, was widely shared on social media as evidence of the real-life dystopian turn America has taken under Donald Trump, who has regularly maligned the free press as "fake news.
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This can cause a wide range of symptoms which range from mild to life-threatening, according to the Lupus Foundation of America, including headaches, fever, unexplained fatigue, joint pain and swelling, hair loss, sensitivity to light, chest pain, and a distinctive butterfly-shaped rash on the nose and cheeks.
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This use of on-the-nose mechanical sounds to break with our expectations of pop feels like an aural example of the fact that using machines doesn't immediately spell laziness, or a lack of creativity, as is often perceived, especially with pop (over other genres like dance and electronic).
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I had been convinced that all red wine tasted basically like red wine, all white wine tasted basically like white wine, and the minutiae provided in verbose tasting notes ("Hints of cassis and the vintner's beard, with lilac on the nose") were just illusory emperor-has-no-clothes gibberish.
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Some will likely ding it for dialogue that feels too on the nose, too much like the statements about race and police force that we bandy about today; others might take issue with how the movie imagines real-life events without knowing with 100 percent certainty what happened.
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A few moments are rather on the nose (one scene has Weber unnerved when his stereo switches from classical to hip-hop, so uncivilized), and some of the early exposition leans on the kind of clumsy, conveniently overheard conversations that should have been jettisoned in the second draft.
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There are things that can be grating about that — the movie cannot have a punch thrown without a needle drop on an extremely on-the-nose song, and there's way too much slow-mo — but there's much more to like when Birds of Prey goes full Chaos Queen.
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Finally — after 22015 years of beating around the bush — I come up with something which is — all right, maybe a little on the nose, maybe a little frank, maybe a little satiric at times — but still clearly infused with warmth, respect and an abiding affection, and what happens?
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Compared to an ad from Fagg's opponent Troy Downing, in which he touted his manly bonafides as a fighter pilot and a Trump friend as compared to Tester, who plays the trumpet like a, well, you get the implication, this was some serious on-the-nose outright racism.
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Cassius "Cash" Green (Lakeith Stanfield) — the character names in this film are intentionally on the nose — is an Oakland native living in the garage at his uncle's house (Terry Crews) and struggling to get by, wondering if life really has any meaning at all or is just a pointless grind.
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If anything, Resident Evil 7's later chapters — set amid an on-the-nose stand-in for the BP oil spill — takes the series' fascination with paramilitary conspiracies and sci-fi melodrama, and grounds it with a setting that's almost mundane, if you take away the spiderwebs and creepy dolls.
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Berlanti launched his directing career with the gay indie "The Broken Hearts Club," before finding his footing in television, and this feels like the product of the 15 or so years he's spent producing shows like "Dawson's Creek" and "Riverdale" (compete with too-close framing and an on-the-nose score).
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It's funny, the person who made this is likely very satisfied with this on-the-nose teachable moment, but nothing quite makes the point that you're an out of touch angry old fart like reaching back into pre-Civil Rights Act Americana to scold a guy for not talking to reporters.
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" A sponsored ad the company apparently posted in May is a little more on the nose, promising the ability to "watch anything for free," and that "it might get banned soon, but as soon as you have one you are completely fine and will be able to watch everything for free forever.
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It's always nice when This Is Us connects the flashbacks to the present storylines in an organic way, but the famed "Immaculate Reception" being connected to two "immaculate conceptions" in Kate's IVF doctor agreeing to treat her and Deja agreeing to let the Pearsons adopt her is a little too on the nose.
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He's also made significant investments in real estate in New York and San Francisco, including four homes in the greater New York metropolitan area, and a $21 million, 13,000-square-foot house in the Bay Area, complete with a guitar-shaped room (I guess a fiddle would be too on the nose).
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Scum Sect is the perfect title for this Bay Area crust collective's second album—and almost a little too on the nose for an outfit that rips this hard and ugly, and that includes past and current members of such grimy luminaries as Vastum, Necrot, Black September, Mortuous, Abstracter, and Moral Void.
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Sure, there is eventually a narrative payoff, but it's too opaquely teased in its telegraphing to comprise a meaningful motivator for the majority of the game, and its delivery—sorry for sounding sort of heartless here—is just a bit too on the nose, too quickly, for it to leave an impact.
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But just for punctuation, to really take it over the top, last week brought two bits of symbolism that any writer of fiction would reject as being too on the nose: a new photo on the Bureau of Land Management's website and a new source of power for a Kentucky coal museum.
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From the moment Flight 610 took off just after dawn from the airport in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, the Max 8 jet was recording errant data from one of the two angle-of-attack sensors on the nose of the plane that records the pitch at which a plane is climbing or descending.
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The updated software designed by Boeing uses input from two sensors on the nose of the plane, instead of one, and is designed to not trigger the MCAS system repeatedly, which is believed to have pitched the Lion Air plane's nose down so sharply that the pilots' attempts to regain control were futile.
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This is Black Mirror's first true storyline set in the past rather than the future, so naturally, it plops us down in 1984 — nominally because 1984 was a primo moment in the history of video game development, but more obviously to ensure that our ensuing experience is as on-the-nose and Orwellian as possible.
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The parallels between Isaac and Lt. Commander Data of Star Trek's flagship Enterprise are often a little too on the nose, while the writers never seemed to know what they wanted to do with the character of Lt. Alara (Halston), beyond piling on unrelated bits of backstory that consistently failed to make her stand out.
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Meanwhile, Roy and Betty continue with their cute dates, including one in which the foreshadowing is a little too on-the-nose: After a screening of Tarantino's historically revisionist World War II film "Inglourious Basterds" — "Liar" is set in 2009 — they commiserate about how young people all too often take stories at face value.
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Read more: A mysterious beluga whale that some think may be a Russian military asset is so tame that people can pet it on the nose"Whaledimir," which appeared friendly and swam close to the locals, may have escaped as the marine pens were being moved to the new location, The Barents Observer noted.
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As a publicity stunt, it's almost too on the nose: Here we were in the old home of a president who inherited a real estate empire talking to refugees who have had to build entirely new lives in an unfamiliar place—and who are the sort of people Trump wants less of in the country.
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Is it too on the nose to point out that Arthur Ashe Stadium, where Kevin Spacey has unaccountably decided to perform his one-man show about the great lawyer Clarence Darrow, sits on a site in Flushing, Queens, that was once a waste dump for the rest of the city's coal ash and street sweepings?
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"People have talked about (Foreign Minister) Julie Bishop, but when Bishop was shadow Treasurer she wasn't a big success," he said "Others have mentioned Treasurer Scott Morrison, who was the architect of the superannuation debacle... so he's on the nose with a lot of people in his party, but there's no obvious person in there who has been waiting."
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The only thing missing is an appearance from everyone's favorite bodyguard, Brock Samson, so here's a compilation of his best moments: Known for its blend of pop culture minutia, dark humor, and on-the-nose parody, Christopher McCulloch's satire of comic book heroes and villains has been an Adult Swim mainstay over the last 15 years.
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" Network execs tend to err on the side of assuming everyone in America is a drooling idiot, and to this end, our execs scripted an on-the-nose "ultimatum" for Stacy to deliver to her boyfriend: "You have one year to make it as a rapper, or I'm leaving you and taking our child with me.
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Enough to say that, while all parts of the piece are not equally strong — satire has to be right on the nose, weirdness-wise, to work, and some of this is too easy — the level of visual invention is high, and the cast of more than 30 actors (among them, a Chihuahua named Dreidel) is impressive.
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Photograph by Eric Helgas for The New Yorker And yet Bazdarich and his chef de cuisine, Matt Conroy, formerly of Empellon, have managed something impressive: a restaurant that is at once on-the-nose hipster bait—at brunch, served every day, an entire section of the menu is devoted to "bowls"—and reverent of traditional ingredients and techniques.
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I'm not the only one who thinks the timing and tone of this Hulu Original is a bit on the nose: Women demonstrating at the Texas Senate on Monday regarding two bills related to abortion under consideration donned outfits that look pulled from the program's costuming department: Women dressed as handmaids are protesting anti-abortion bills at the Capitol.
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Titled "Used To Being Alone," it might not be as on the nose as "Back to Back"—it's lyrically focused on a former love interest, and plays more as an emotional dance jam that offers an opportunity for Banks to tread new territory and flex her vocals - but the hijacking alone takes the beef to new territory.
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This happily-on-the-nose billing puts Kurt Vile alongside a group that paved the way for him, the sludgy indie-rock pioneers in Dinosaur Jr. Both Vile and J Mascis, Dinosaur Jr.'s frontman, are shrugging drawlers with a lot of love for the un-self-conscious freedom and unloosed guitars of '233s classic rock.
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What happens when the wine is very young is that you have these very bright, fresh and fruity flavors that are kind of more forward on the nose; and as the wine matures, the fresh and fruity aromas diminish a little bit and allow some of those background aromas that might be a little more subtle to come through.
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But Tremaine and the screenwriters Rich Wilkes and Amanda Adelson have sanded it down to a junior varsity "Bohemian Rhapsody," complete with many of the same crude devices: embarrassingly bad wigs, hilariously on-the-nose needle drops (the band plays "Take Me to the Top" as they go … to the top) and declamatory, subtext-free dialogue.
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The facts in the reporting are incredibly convenient to the point of feeling almost too on the nose—he paid cash, no paper trail; someone literally said out loud for at least one other person to hear "We've got Johnny Manziel with us tonight," after confirming with his ID—but this is also totally something Johnny Manziel would do.
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Although Hamid's authorial voice can lean in thematically at times—declarations such as "When we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind" and "We are all migrants through time" will feel either breathtaking or a bit on the nose, depending on your taste— Exit West is an impressive work as well as a miraculously, refreshingly hopeful one.
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It felt a little too on-the-nose for me too — mitigated somewhat by the fact that the David Copperfield special itself went there in terms of the metaphor of disappearing liberty — but I think I'm coming around on it because it has some thematic resonances with the rest of The Americans' story, particularly as it pertains to Paige and Martha.
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I found that I could confidently stand right on the rails (edges), rock back and forth, perch on the nose, strap all my gear down securely, and, if a bit of swell or boat wake challenged me, there was the grab rail, ever-ready and shockingly sturdy, considering that it's only resting in two ports on the deck of an inflatable paddleboard.
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Photograph by Cole Wilson for The New Yorker The whiskey went down easy—citrus on the nose, spicy caramel and vanilla on the palate—and paired well with a crispy "Guma pie," a tortilla wrapped like a sharp-cornered package around ground beef seasoned with habanero and African allspice, shipped up from a Virginia-based company started by a Ugandan refugee.
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Politically, perhaps the most on-the-nose example is that while the former head of the E.P.A., Scott Pruitt, was accused of being a toxic boss, setting himself up in lavish isolation while sending his employees on "constant" errands to pick up Greek yogurt, the E.P.A. was delaying the publication of new research recommending tighter restrictions on certain toxic chemicals in drinking water.
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Dupuy-Spencer twists the knife by inserting, front and center, a book—one so on the nose I had to Google to see if it actually existed (it doesn't, thank goodness, but as the artist said, laughing, "if it did I'd be totally on it"): The Burden of Blame, the title blares, How to Convince People That It's Not Your Fault.
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The rain pouring into the centuries-old Houses of Parliament in Westminster — which really is, quite literally, failing apart — was one of a series of mishaps that many saw as ridiculously on-the-nose metaphors for the Brexit mess: Half-naked protesters interrupted the Brexit debate on Monday, with their thonged backsides facing down toward MPs as they prepared for indicative votes.
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Many women must endure repeated cycles before becoming pregnant, which can cost thousands ("My parents did IVF and all they could afford was this lousy T-shirt," reads one particularly on-the-nose offering.) By the time someone gets through all that, it's understandable that they may not have the energy or inclination to invite wider discussion of their medical history.
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Nevertheless, the miniseries offers a damning window into the criminal-justice system, from the media's willing adoption of the "wilding" narrative to then-private citizen Donald Trump wading into the controversy by advocating for the death penalty -- eliciting a tart rejoinder from a parent who suggests (in what feels a bit too on the nose) that the real-estate developer's 15 minutes of fame were nearly up.
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Watching Hannah lay out the plan for her own suicide in the 12th episode, for instance, feels so on-the-nose you want to wince, but the brooding Roman Remains cover of "The Killing Moon" that glimmers in the background evens out the creases and aligns it with cult indie cinema like Donnie Darko, rather than a Netflix show that would otherwise be sub-par.
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I guess it would depend on how much they trusted you...And how many times you're willing to say "just wait for it..."Before they smacked you on the nose...Since we're all waiting for the robot arm to fail...And for the toy train to derail...But it never does...It just keeps going...And going...And going...And going...[Reddit via Twitter]
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On that team, Medina was joined by a time-traveling mutant named Eva Bell, but for whatever reason — maybe for being too powerful or too gimicky or too on the nose (one of the new X-Men was a gay man named Benjamin Deeds who could shape-shift to make people feel at ease around him, an obvious allegory for intolerance) — they were largely forgotten.
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Although the dialogue is occasionally too on the nose, pronouncing the story's themes about loneliness and acceptance a little more directly than is necessary, the movie wins you over on its combination of earnestness and ingenuity: The flatulence jet ski is just one of the many bizarre uses Dano finds for Radcliffe's body — others include repurposing it as a water fountain, an ax, a harpoon gun, and a rocket.
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Thus driving up the year-round cost of what becomes acceptable to pay for music because collectors simply must have a picture disc of Fawlty Towers (literally just audio from two episodes) or the re-release of Now That's What I Call Music or a glow-in-the-dark Ghostbusters single or this year's extremely on-the-nose release of Toto's "Africa" with the vinyl shaped like the continent of Africa.
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I don't mind, by the way, the appropriation of my curious condition for the purpose of metaphor, just as I don't hold it against friends and colleagues when they ask if I need a hand (indeed I do), complain that they're shorthanded (a little too on the nose), or claim they can perform some task with one hand tied behind their backs (not as well as I can).
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But that message is conveyed clearly and movingly enough in the early run of the show, before the incredibly on-the-nose moment when Michael C. Hall's titular character finds his child playing in a pool of his wife's blood, just after it seemed that the killer of killers was finally going to leave Florida and escape the life that his own father had set him up for.
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Perhaps because everything else has been so finely calibrated, the episode's closing moments feel a little off; even in the stylized world of Offred's mind, lining up the Handmaids like willing soldiers and marching them toward the camera reads slightly on the nose, like it's staged mostly to soothe our feelings—an optimistic cap to a grueling episode, a promise that she has her fight back and things will be different now.
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Courtesy Glenstone Museum © 2018 Bruce Nauman / Artists Rights Society I have videocassettes that Nauman gave me of his late mentor in the art of breaking horses, an old cowboy named Ray Hunt, demonstrating how to do it by gentle stages—from accustoming the animal to the feel of a strap lightly touching its back to gaining its acceptance of saddle and rider—except when one steed, viciously aggressive, required a few calmly dissuasive punches on the nose.
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I mean, it is bad, but mainly it stands out for a soundtrack that demonstrates the kind of on-the-nose logic you wouldn't expect to see outside of an Elvis movie: Tom Petty's "Learning to Fly" for the scene where Ultra learns to fly, songs about feeling the pity in New York City to make us forget we are obviously looking at Toronto, and "She Blinded Me with Science" after a visit from Cryptic Man sends her to Dinklage's lab.
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