highly strung betydelse and definition

Exempel på highly strung

• Guided, if that is the right word, almost entirely by expediency, much of our recent built environment alternates between the hyperactive highly strung and the catatonic.

• We do not know what would happen, nor does that boy or young man who is highly strung, know what would happen.

• It is a very highly strung animal, with acute senses.

• But there were those of a hysterical type, the highly strung, who had to go to a deep air-raid shelter.

• To highly strung or nervous people the feeling sometimes becomes so acute that they simply must escape somehow from the surrounding cause.

• They are men who have been strung up to do certain things, and men whose nervous system is a great deal more highly strung.

• Feelings on both sides have no doubt been somewhat highly strung of late, and they may take some time to subside.

• They are highly nervous and highly strung.