Both designers insist on "simple" clothes and object to overdesigned ones.

The room has great bones, so it was more a matter of removing the overdesigned details than adding much.

Businesswise everything continues to work like a ridiculously overdesigned watch.

But the finished product doesn't look overdesigned or untouchable.

Today, however, his clothes look overdesigned and heavy.

As we architects often say, it looks overdesigned.

In particular, don't wear them with knee-length shorts and a pair of overdesigned running shoes.

The whole novel, as this sketchy plot outline might suggest, at times seems overdesigned.

Until the end, they are blithely unaware that they're living in an overdesigned moral disaster of their own creation.

High-tech buildings, all these acrobatic buildings today, use overdesigned materials and methods.

For the most part, European lines tend to look dated, too fussy, too overdesigned or just boring.

"I think people are tired of overdesigned shows of gimmicks, of tricks," he said.

"Overdesigned to the point of insanity," in the words of Barbara Jakobson.

In the testing program, priority was given to studying the effects of pocketing in overdesigned square pillars.

And with their "overdesigned, understressed motors," he pointed out, fans don't wear out from constant use.

New York teems with overdesigned restaurants.

In Michael Anania's overdesigned country house, the offstage cowshed is one of the bedrooms.

The opening essay rejects overdesigned sleekness for the "flowing, tangled" realism of everyday mess.

"And the collections are usually more accessible; they are not as overdesigned as the regular fall and spring styles."

Lightweight Materials Traditionally, forest machines have been heavy, often with overdesigned steel structures to achieve the necessary robustness.

All of us then sighed our way contentedly into coffee, regretting that the overdesigned tub chairs were diabolically uncomfortable.

We may live in the age of shopping as theater, but for sheer luxury, even today's most overdesigned mall has nothing on Bullock's Wilshire.

In these overdetermined, overdesigned times, the choices are endless, even for things you're not supposed to care about, like yoga mats, incense and altar candles.

It's no wonder men aren't comfortable at home, with the overdesigned, "feminized spaces that are being imposed on them" by the women in their lives, she said.

Now 20 percent of the gas heads for the clean-up system, which, Mr. Stillinger described as "overdesigned" because of its experimental nature.