not a comparision but magnification

Hi,

I think when you make a comparison with the words like 'less of", "more of", or perhaps with "much of," you should attach the word "OF" with it, but if the case calls for magnification of a subject matter, then the "of" doesn't seem to be needed. Am I correct?

Are these all cases of amplification?

What I found from the NY Times search:

"Tucker is too much a taker." 

He is too much a man's man to play a bumbling fool for ...

Jones is too much a lady.

But the Record Shack and Harem are too much a part of his identity for ...    

I think the last one's "too much" isn't the same grammatical part as the ones before that. Am I right?

Thank you.

Would say the following involves a sense of comparison? I would say not. They are saying the subjects are much, much, much and more much of that thing or a person -- TOO much conveys that? Don't you agree?  

But these will involve comparisons I believ:

Tucker is more of a talker than Jane.

He is more of a man than Joe.

Jones is more of a lady than Jane.

For those invloving comparisons 'of' is not optional, I think, for the subject matter?? it deals with is a countable noun. Right?

Thank you.