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• His estimate that they would consume 23 boxes was on the nose.
• “I think the part of me that is sensible, the part that′s most on the nose about making decisions about how and what to write, is the part which wants to continue working toward the Turgenev model in fiction. Which is simply based on the idea that novels have to be extremely efficient to survive.[...]”
• In the last three or four years of the series, with the active and very enthusiastic support of the producers and writers, we did go much more on the nose with political issues.
• [Lawrence:] [At the audition,] it was me and five or six women with the large breasts, the short skirts, the hair and makeup. They were just much more on the nose, in terms of what someone who was sexually voracious would look like. I was in a sweater and slacks, hiding the sexuality.
• It′s best to underplay such moments. In Dickens′s time a bit more on-the-nose writing was acceptable. Don′t overdo it, or you may lapse into melodrama.
• After Hours, originally named the more on the nose, A Night in Soho, was financed by Fox Classics for $3.5 million and scheduled for a forty-night shoot, and a postproduction period of around four months.
• She cut me off. ‘So you′re just wandering around, are you? Showing them to everyone just for the sake of it?’ She laughed a little.
• In oarticular Miguel/Guy forces Christina/Mia to swallow bad-tasting food before a dining hall full of onlookers. The double meaning is much more on-the-nose in the remake since Guy actually says “swallow it for once in your life,” to his put-upon spouse.
• No one had spoken to me like this before; she was bang on the nose.
• Hank is a swaggering chucklehead, so he gets panic attacks. Marie is a snippy busybody, so she’s concealing a humiliating addiction. Although the show gradually grows more subtle, much of the early writing that establishes the characters is so on the nose it hurts. Any time we see Walt in class, it’s certain that what he writes on the chalkboard will echo events in his secret life. (“The faster they undergo change, the more violent the explosion.”) Jesse finds an old paper from school on which his teacher wrote, “Apply yourself!”.
• “ And here the two are together again on new the Weeknd track "Live For," built out of a delicate acoustic loop, clappy percussion, and regal electronic ripples. The song is sumptuously introspective, but on first impression it's a bit too on the nose . Here's Tesfaye complaining in falsetto about a threesome; there's Drake trolling us by comparing himself to Prince, then proclaiming that, no, really he's the king.[...]”
• Wearing that floral dress to a garden party was a little on the nose, wouldn't you say?
• Now the process has been reversed; it is doubtful if there has ever been a time when politicians and politics have been more on the nose than the period of the first Fraser government, and this is not only unfunny, but unhealthy.
• That bucket of raw prawns you left in the sun is a bit on the nose.
• Conservatism was on the nose with voters and if Liberals were to regain government, the party must swing smoothly to the left on a range of social issues.
• Dog was so stupid he didn′t realise the man was very on the nose. Larry smelt good to him, most times, ripe and earthy.