overwrought

How To Use overwrought In A Sentence

• She described at last with extraordinary clearness, which is so often seen, though only for a moment, in such overwrought states, how Ivan had been nearly driven out of his mind during the last two months trying to save “the monster and murderer,” his brother. The Brothers Karamazov
• We often read about overwrought ladies reaching for their vinaigrettes, or of stalwart heroes reviving a swooning damsel by waving a vinaigrette beneath her nose.
• Yes, I know it's rather stilted, nay overwrought, prose.
• Minus the film interaction, however, the opus suffered from overwrought verbiage and meandering vignettes.
• We infatuate humanity with overwrought images of success and riches. Dying America Needs A Miracle
• Some overwrought writing mars an otherwise sharp and insightful exploration of homophobia in the deep South.
• She dismissed the thought as the result of her overwrought imagination, but it was all she could do not to run the last few steps to her cell.
• Uranian mind-vibes can sometimes get Mercurial Virgos overwrought and on edge.
• She was in a very overwrought state after the accident.
• Overweight, overtired and overwrought with grief, Duncan presented an excessively undisciplined body.