Word: overwrought
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...exactly what would happen in that war." George B. Kistiakowsky, a retired chemistry professor who helped develop the first atomic bomb, argues that then as now people forced themselves not to think about the horrors of nuclear war, preferring to discuss the threat in theoretical terms. Himself overwrought with concern. Kistiakowsky cancelled his classes at the peak of the crisis...
Opposition to these initiatives is loud and occasionally overwrought. "James Watt is sneaky and malicious," says William Turnage, executive director of the Wilderness Society. "He's the worst thing that ever happened to this country." On a few other issues, the criticism is less vituperative, and Watt's defenses are more solid and more temperate. Some people oppose his moratorium on the Government purchase of new land for parks, for example, but Watt believes it is more urgent to remedy the "deplorable" conditions of existing facilities. Indeed, Interior's budget for park improvements has nearly doubled under...
While the skilled four-character cast at Manhattan's Quaigh Theater becomes a trifle overwrought, Livingstone and Sechele is a fascinating study of culture clash. The opening scene is like a child's Garden of Eden. Sechele (Afemo) and his fifth wife Mokokon (Esther Ryvlin) are singing the alphabet under the tutelage of Livingstone (Mike Champagne) and his wife Mary (Prudence Wright Holmes...
...requires a softer touch and more control than are found in these stories. Some of Ozick's figurative language is spell-breaking. The phrase "suckled the Nazi boot" seems to have dropped from a punk rock lyric. A "transient mirage" that teases the "medulla oblongata" is not only overwrought but inappropriate for this part of the brain...
...afterlife fantasies. One of these entitled "Laugh Kookaberry, Laugh Kookaberry, Gay Your Life Must Be" and concerning Dante and devils in Hell, shows the considerable influence of C.S. Lewis, which combines with passion and lively musing to create by far the richest piece in Bedlam. Some dialogue is still overwrought and unconvincing to when the two devils "argue...