3 QUOTES WITH «OVERWROUGHT»
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overwrought.
You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.
If you have a movie that doesn't strive to go to a certain emotional point, you can do anything and it will be fine and funny. But if you have something pretty emotional at its core, you have to make it right. You don't want it overwrought or unearned. Everything has to be moving towards this one thing.
I always hated 'O Holy Night.' It's so operatic and overwrought.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERWROUGHT»
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overwrought in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
overwrought and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dear job stressed: answers for the overworked,
overwrought, ...
Provides over 100 specific tips for handling frequently encountered stress situations on the job, and identifies the seven common "stress personalities"
Mary Dempcy, Rene Tihista, 1996
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Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse: Essays in Honor ...
Overwrought. utterances. 'Complex. sentences". in. a. different. sense*. Emanuel
A. Schegloff University of California, Los Angeles i. Introduction When a party to a
conversation says something which presents interlocutor(s) with trouble in ...
Joan L. Bybee, Michael Noonan, 2002
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The Protestant Episcopal Quarterly Review, and Church Register
The difficulty is with that large class who contend that it is only the " overwrought"
fiction which should be objected to. This opens the question, when is a fiction "
overwrought ?" Hundreds of such fictions are coming forth from the religious
press, ...
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Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery
Consider the opening lines of the last stanza: "O Attic shape! Fair attitude! With
brede / Of marble men and maidens overwrought." The brilliant puns here work
like the rabbit-duck drawing that Wittgenstein used to show how a single image
can ...
James A. W. Heffernan, 2004
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A New Romanticism: The Collected Poetry Volume Two
OVERWROUGHT. Overwhelmed and overwrought with thinking I bring myself out
into this field Seeking solace from all my problems. Those same have been
magnified Far beyond their true proportions By the very act of staying with them
for ...
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Vocabulary Advantage GRE/GMAT/CAT and Other Examinations
Shiva soothed his overwrought“ mother and said that she was worrying
needlessly; nothing would happen to him; had he ever lost a fight? Besides, he
would also take Nandu, Gullu and Mahesh with him; could anyone stand before
the four of ...
overwrought-peccadillo. overwrought ADJ. extremely agitated; hysterical. When
Kate heard the news of the sudden tragedy, she became too overwrought to work
and had to leave the office early. ovoid ADJ. egg-shaped. At Easter she had to ...
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Barron's how to Prepare for the GRE, Graduate Record Examination
overwrought-peccadillo. overwrought ADJ. extremely agitated; hysterical. When
Kate heard the news of the sudden tragedy, she became too overwrought to work
and had to leave the office early. ovoid ADJ. egg-shaped. At Easter she had to ...
Sharon Green, Ira K. Wolf, 2005
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In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the ...
But although tireless energy was aroused in me and unremitting mindfulness was
established, my body was overwrought and strained because I was exhausted by
the painful striving. But such painful feeling that arose in me did not invade my ...
Bhikkhu Bodhi, Bodhi, 2005
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Round Dance and Other Plays
I sometimes wonder if all such overwrought conditions don't always have a
deeper psychological explanation. PRINCE Overwrought? One surely can't call
Mizzi overwrought. COUNT Well, now She's settled down. But earlier on...
PRINCE I ...
Arthur Schnitzler, Ritchie Robertson, 2004
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERWROUGHT»
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overwrought is used in the context of the following news items.
Book review: Go Set a Watchman
Yes, Jean Louise is overwrought and sickened, at times literally so, when she discovers her father's true colours. And somehow, in the process, ... «Daily News & Analysis, Jul 15»
Labor, Meretz, and the politics of compromise
“I was overwrought,” Galon told me. “But on the way to the parking lot I said to myself: Zehava, calm down, take a deep breath, you don't have to ... «Haaretz, Jul 15»
Compelling music sets the beat in Greendale's 'Parade'
... giving us a fussy man who constantly wrings his hands while snapping at his wife and at life because he is overwrought and overworked. «Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Jul 15»
'Why I'm happier childless'
No need to size anyone up on a first date as potential father material, or worry about scaring anyone off with my overwrought hormones. I never came across ... «The Sun, Jul 15»
Modern Musical Poesy Through Tanglewood Rain
The musical effect, alas, was tough, overwrought (even hysterical) and not especially ecstatic, despite fine playing from the ensemble under ... «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Jul 15»
Monster in our midst
At the present moment, the overwrought QTT might delude himself into believing that he is fighting for the patriotic muhajir citizens of Pakistan, ... «Pakistan Today, Jul 15»
On The Sex Myth: We're Officially Getting Laid Less Than Our …
... generation before us—how we're approaching sex, talking about sex and how often we're having sex may well be overwrought in the media ... «Pedestrian TV, Jul 15»
The Battle of Harney Peak, 21st-Century-Style
But the nouveau riche have always constructed overwrought vulgarities. The Black Hills—the oldest mountains in North America, formed over a ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
Pixels, Adam Sandler's newest movie, is complete and utter garbage
The film is intellectually lazy, and yet its plot is still somehow overwrought. No real logic centers the weaponized video game idea — Sandler ... «Vox, Jul 15»
'Between the World and Me', by Ta-Nehisi Coates
He is by turns brutal and lyrical, elegiac and searing and, at times, overwrought. But a vital undercurrent of rage thrums beneath every line. «Financial Times, Jul 15»
