During the stormy night with 50 campers, the counselors felt overwrought. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective : to become overwrought on hearing bad news; an overwrought personality. ,written in a florid, overwrought style. From Dictionary.com.
Best of all, she's got a playful sensibility that keeps the covers from getting bogged down in overwrought gravitas, no matter the subject. From Wordnik.com. [Jo Chen covers kick ass | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment] Reference
Pleased to see that I was at "overwrought" before J. Hoberman got there. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Interview. Isild Le Besco.] Reference
Not sure how that became "overwrought" in your mind, but maybe we've misunderstood each other. From Wordnik.com. [Science fiction's subordination - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games] Reference
Yes, but that kind of overwrought emotion only applies, I'm afraid, to the libraries I knew in my pre-Japan days. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-04-01] Reference
This is the kind of overwrought, underreported business story I expect to see in Fortune magazine, not my local business journal. From Wordnik.com. [Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » A Little Much With the Drama, DBJ] Reference
Opera Tattler finds the characters caricatures and the production "overwrought," with the music unfocussed and too much in the background. From Wordnik.com. [Compare and Contrast 11] Reference
Stewart inspires this kind of overwrought analysis because his 'Daily. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
Please show me the sentence where I seem to be "overwrought" about the fate of foxes. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph Blogs] Reference
But the kind of overwrought exuberance that we have come to expect from such debates was also missing here. From Wordnik.com. [On Line Opinion - Latest Articles] Reference
The design seems kind of overwrought to me, with all those bolts and handles and gaps and tusks and internal structure. From Wordnik.com. [Daddy Types] Reference
At the time we found this hilariously overwrought. From Wordnik.com. [James Lee's Awakening] Reference
American officials insist those concerns are overwrought. From Wordnik.com. [Colombia: Man Without A Plan] Reference
Shandean buoyancy, and unblemished by overwrought sentiment. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
What was anybody to do with this overwrought, fanciful child?. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
The letter was full of overwrought words and uneven handwriting. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Man and the Shark] Reference
A moment later the overwrought girl staggered and almost fell into. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls] Reference
In Kuwait, the Western obsession with the higab feels overwrought. From Wordnik.com. [Equality, of a Sort] Reference
And she laughed, the shrill, choking laughter of overwrought nerves. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
And Mullin's language-mangling Yogi Berra-isms ( "overwrought" comes out. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
Pop this intricate should feel overwrought, but this just rollicks along. From Wordnik.com. [Rock's Best Of The Rest] Reference
But as a substitute for a day in court, "HIStory" is one overwrought cop-out. From Wordnik.com. [Curiouser And Curiouser] Reference
Still, overwrought tourists pose far less worry than end-of-the-world cultists. From Wordnik.com. [Millennium Madness] Reference
In a sea of overwrought graphics and offbeat installations, their work was distinct. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Siegel: Review: 320 Studios] Reference
Simply binding together three overwrought enterprises is likely to make matters worse. From Wordnik.com. [And Then There Was One] Reference
No histrionics wrinkle his Brioni suit, no overwrought emotions crease his choirboy face. From Wordnik.com. [A Fast Break In Boston] Reference
The girl was overwrought by home-worries, for Theo was none of the crying sort, as a rule. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
Little things which I have noticed about him lately convince me that he is being overwrought. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
"To know Mahler is, ultimately, to know ourselves," he writes in his overwrought introduction. From Wordnik.com. [Why Mahler? by Norman Lebrecht and The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824 by Harvey Sachs] Reference
While the cops analogy may be overwrought, some of these teams are involved in actual law enforcement. From Wordnik.com. [Walking the Cyberbeat] Reference
Gingrich is a sweeping, if overwrought, thinker whose interests range from prehistory to science fiction. From Wordnik.com. [Revenge Of The Right] Reference
Financial crises tend to trigger overwrought predictions of major economic shifts — and then debunk them. From Wordnik.com. [Bigger Than Ever] Reference
Pros: The crisp design and small format, so it's easy to hide during class Cons: The overwrought fashion spreads. From Wordnik.com. [Cheat Sheet | Teen Magazines] Reference
"America's Next Top Model" fans may recall former judge Janice Dickinson and her excessive, overwrought critiques. From Wordnik.com. ['Idol' Struggles To Re-Create Its Winning Panel] Reference
This is not a new insight, but by confirming it, Mayer discredits much of the welfare debate's overwrought rhetoric. From Wordnik.com. [The Culture Of Poverty] Reference
It was a relief to the overwrought girl to restfully watch the household reins gathered up in other and abler hands than her own. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
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