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.
