Word: overwrought
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...think I don’t quite know what I think. As much as I dislike the way they were described in the catalogue, I have to admit that I found several of the pieces quite affecting—I can still close my eyes and see that absurdly overwrought chandelier flashing poetry like an SOS. So I’m not saying that visual or experiential qualities are not grounds for evaluating art, I’m just saying that if we are going to use them as criteria we might as well admit it so that...
...Kooning's moment of art-world pre-eminence was brief, from the death of Pollock in 1956 to the early 1960s, when the imperturbable cool of Pop began to make the surplus drama of Abstract Expressionism look dated and overwrought. To refocus his ambitions, he moved to the Hamptons, on the east end of Long Island. But isolation intensified his drinking problem. Whole months could be spent guzzling Johnny Walker Red. The worst bouts sent him to the hospital for weeks at a time. Much of his work from the '60s was inebriated--slack or shrill...
...bosom/ Was never given in vain;/ ’Tis paid with sighs a plenty/ And sold for endless rue.’/ And I am two-and-twenty,/ And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.” It was all there, our overwrought, blinding grief, our callowness, our heartbreak that was no less real for all of that...
...passion, Equus is a talky play, with long speeches about Greek gods and the deadening effects of civilization that in the wrong hands could sound like overwrought, long-winded clichés. Cozzens makes the most of these moments, endowing Dysart with a slightly hostile glare and energetic hands, imbuing his rambling with all the energy of a repressed fancier of a dead society, with a frigid wife and a job whose benefit he begins to doubt. As Alan, Fishburn is a worthy foil, with a mournful stare and an affect that switches like a light between cold disengagement...
Guitarist Emma Pollock’s vocals are neither precious nor overwrought; she sings with a straightforward style that fits well with the music, which is fairly simple without seeming watered-down. She has a few moments of transparent beauty on “Come Undone” and “The City Consumes Us,” the latter a song that frames her lilting voice with arpeggios to fit the slightly melancholy mood. Although Pollock sometimes affects (whether consciously or unconsciously) Nina Persson of the Cardigans, and although she is by no means an amazing vocalist, it?...