What could be a polite alternative to "shove"?

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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?

Anton · Accepted Answer

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.

What could be a polite alternative to "shove"?

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