Word: overwrought
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...song itself is a strong mix of bass, horns and Indian chants. The other drug song is the lackluster "High Times," which does little more than evoke memories of "Hits From the Bong" and "I Wanna Get High." Despite a couple of duds other, such as the overwrought "Feature Presentation" and the placid "Audio X," Cypress Hill IV is an album that arrives none too soon...
...would be easy to dismiss this and similar stories popping up across the U.S. as overreactions by overwrought parents. Or to trash the recent federal policy requiring airlines to provide peanut-free zones to customers who request them. After all, most peanut allergies are more annoying than life threatening. You just learn what foods you can eat, never swap lunch bags and avoid certain restaurants...
...notion of resignation, dismissed as unfair and inconceivable once the overwrought January days had passed, rumbled back into the national conversation. Even before the report arrived, lawmakers were surprised by how quickly the mood was changing. They came back to work last week after spending some time at home and getting an earful. Real people, the lawmakers learned, were sick and tired of turning off the TV when the news came on and hearing their kids use "Monica" like a cussword. They kept asking each other how they were supposed to explain to their constituents why the President...
...discovery: an impassioned social drama that is as far as one can imagine from the more personal, lyrical style that Williams introduced a few years later in The Glass Menagerie. The earlier play is something of a mess--more than three hours long, with too many characters and subplots, overwrought melodramatics and snippets of dialogue that sound like, well, bad Tennessee Williams (Girl to Guy: "Why don't you ever open the door you're hiding behind?"). But in Nunn's taut, forceful staging, the work is more than a footnote for Williams scholars; it's an evening of crude...
Hyperbole aside, the ADC is spotlighting a question hotly debated by everyone from nutritionists to parents. Many patients ask doctors whether they should give up milk, like that supermodel they saw interviewed on TV. And to be sure, the ADC's overwrought claims do have some scientific basis...