What could be a polite alternative to "shove"?
I want to convey something like "they don't shove it (the message), it's generally subtle".
What I considered replacing it with these, but they don't seem much suitable :
- rub it in your face
- thrust / push it on to you
What should I use to keep the statement polite yet emphatic?
Solution 1:
There are a few candidates, including: belabour, overstress, and overemphasize, whose meanings are easily found in dictionaries.
Of these three I favour
belabour = "to explain something more than necessary"
Cambridge dictionary
The word has none of the negative connotations that might be associated with the prefix over- and is a neutral and inoffensive description of a way of saying too much about a theme.
Having written a brief answer, I will not belabour the point.