His sense of alienation is emphasised by the overwrought music, with its jagged melisma on the word 'rainbow'.
For example, overwrought competitiveness in medicine might be controlled if medical schools worked to admit students who value cooperation more than academic self-promotion.
The contribution is an excellent example of practical wisdom emanating from high quality research counterpointed with a firm advocacy free from overwrought rhetoric.
The fifth maid cuts across this web of similitude with a piercing, strongly profiled melodic line, but she is too overwrought to make a difference.
This ambivalence about the validity of spectral testimony certainly added tension to the proceedings, which were already overwrought with fear and anxiety.
It's all so naive, so overwrought.
Dodin organizes these scenes quite rigorously, etching them out (for which his black and white is appropriate) so that nothing is overwrought.
Ricciarelli's oscillation between frenetic trembling and frozen terror may seem overwrought, but her interpretation makes for a vivid engagement with the orchestral music.