With Will Patton, too creepy by half in the role of a security expert.
Which means that the deal may turn out to be too clever by half.
Sceptics, meanwhile, had questioned the honesty of the test, arguing that it was too easy by half.
Yet these words also seem a bit weaselly, too passive by half.
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If this sounds too cynical by half, I dare you to print out the whole of the US tax code on your home printer.
Instead, Romney had to play the debate too nimbly by half.
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And you've really savaged Mitt Romney for changing his mind, and I'm wondering if you don't run some risk of looking kind of too clever by half here.
But as it is right now, they're going through strings and caveats and too cute by half machinations so that they don't have to take the political heat for cutting off funding but they accomplish the same thing.
And for Merck, there is also a point of pride: whether its effort to get a combination of laropiprant and niacin through the Food and Drug Administration was ever a good idea, or was too clever by half.
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By all accounts he is doing a good job too: slashing operating costs by nearly half, boosting employee morale, and dramatically winnowing Apple's once sprawling product line down to just four computers (professional and consumer versions of laptops and desktops).
It also avoids too-clever-by-half trigger mechanisms and the opposite pitfall of a laborious legal process.
So far trimming and too-clever-by-half evasions have been found out every time, while radical clarity has paid off.
The portfolio measured about two feet by a foot and a half, too big to fit into the drawers of our bedroom dresser or to be stacked upright against the wall in the crowded bedroom closet he and I shared.
He thinks this is too tall an order, and expects rates to rise by another half-point in 1998.
But he, too, is short of people: by this week, just over half the 55, 000 troops promised had arrived.
United did start to come back into the game as the first half wore on but too often they were let down by their final pass.
Regardless of any innovation, pinball machines will never be completely reliable - in a contraption made from up to 3, 500 parts connected by half a mile of wiring, there's just too much to go wrong.
Just over half of those trusts surveyed by the RCN said there were too few qualified nurses on the ward, with around the same number reporting the skill mix was wrong - so they did not have enough of the right kinds of staff.
Tobacco specialist Ian Rayson said, despite half of his business coming from cigarette sales, he was not too worried by the new rules.
The visitors rallied with second half tries by Casey McGuire and two from Dimitri Pelo but had left it too late.
But with Defoe around, Spurs were always a threat too and the England striker came close either side of extra-time half-time - once thwarted by young defender David Raven and then seeing his shot whistle past the upright.
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Faced with collapsing fish populations, whether the disappearance of the cod fishery on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland or the failure of the North Sea herring fisheries, the reaction has been one of half-hearted measures: too little done too late in a chain of endless procrastination excused by the need for ever more scientific research.
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