(1) Amusing at points, but overwrought and contrived for the most part

(2) An FBI chaplain answered the phone saying, u2018Her husband's overwrought .u2019

(3) They're derided because of the E-word, and I'd be lying if I said that part of their appeal isn't in the overwrought , baroque delivery.

(4) And I still thought the piece from Soul Stories was overwrought and pretentious.

(5) I mean, the most overwrought jury in the history of America.

(6) On the other hand, the straight-ahead rock, soul and Eurodance is the overwrought work of a man who should know better.

(7) It is a giant, overwrought contrivance, a vehicle for communicating the filmmakers' murky and unappealing musings about society and human beings.

(8) As he told his story, he appeared overwrought , fatigued and unsure of how to deal with what he characterized as the extreme pressure of national attention.

(9) Add to these the author's overwrought imagination, which refuses to settle for the number of persons the vehicle can safely carry.

(10) A nasty, overwrought contrived thriller about a woman suspected of bumping off her appalling husband.

(11) Racing lately has been surrounded by hysteria, which is one of the most pejorative words in the language, as it was foisted upon us in antiquity by men who had determined that only women became emotionally overwrought .

(12) She dismissed the thought as the result of her overwrought imagination, but it was all she could do not to run the last few steps to her cell.

(13) She explains that animation was used as a tool to dramatize the passionate, hysterical, overwrought and angry elements of teenagers' lives.

(14) Bear in mind I was very tired and emotionally overwrought when I wrote this blog, my imagination may have run away with itself.

(15) After a second, I realized she was joking, partly in response to my complaints about the hysterical and occasionally overwrought response to this new disease.

(16) He commands this role, speaking in a frenzied bark of orders, put-downs and overwrought egomania.

(17) It persists with its misty gaze in shuttered roomsu2026 and in overwrought proseu2026

(18) Overweight, overtired and overwrought with grief, Duncan presented an excessively undisciplined body.

(19) Supposedly laying ones neurotic soul bare through primal, overwrought wailing has become a commodity.

(20) In the end, when the u2018crisisu2019 has been resolved in the usual muddy compromise, people are embarrassed to look back and see how overwrought they had become.

(21) Yes, I know it's rather stilted, nay overwrought , prose.

(22) A murmur of much humming rose from half the tables in the room, and some of the more overwrought listeners laid down knife and fork in order to be able to burst in with loud clappings at the earliest permissible moment.

(23) Some people just can't see past the wooden characters, overwrought prose, and fantastic speculations about the nature of the universe.

(24) I wondered as I listened to the mannered and overwrought theatrical stuff why he hadn't put that in there instead.

(25) His account of his road trip has an endearingly amateurish quality-not least because of the author's penchant for mixed metaphors and overwrought prose.

(26) But it's hard not to examine the writing or the characterization without regretting their overwrought , bombastic tones.

(27) In other words, he was an easy, if overwrought , target.

(28) The award for most overwrought writing about snow goes tou2026

(29) His overwrought extemporizing on Monday night proved that his ego's still in it; maybe his political imagination will rejoin the wagon train at some future stop.

(30) For one thing, Barry's prose style, while occasionally overwrought , is brilliant.