Exempel på overwrought

• 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.

• The damage to the voice is described in an overwrought present tense: first, a burning sensation behind the sternum, then fatigue and loss of vocal power; finally, total vocal collapse.

• Can it be wondered that he is rapidly becoming a worried, overwrought, and harassed individual?

• Occasionally, an overwrought juror may make an outburst afterwards which catches the headlines and shocks the conscience of the nation.

• It was a terrible strain upon an overwrought nerve.

• The result is that she is overwrought and over-tired, very often; often very bad-tempered.

• His calm reaction was a relief after the overwrought reaction of various fellow parliamentarians at home and abroad.

• I have dealt with a number of detainees who are perhaps mentally disturbed or overwrought.