Word: high-strung
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...Brownings, the Webbs, the Garnetts, the Carlyles, Leonard and Virginia Woolf -the English literary couple is a peculiar domestic manufacture, useful no doubt in a country with difficult winters. Before the bright fire at teatime, we can see these high-strung men and women clinging together, their inky fingers touching...
...progress, is a hazard to health and even life: 50% of all babies who die in the first month after delivery are among the 7% born prematurely. Some doctors, though, see no direct connection between smoking and prematurity; they argue that the problem is a matter of temperament, that high-strung women who smoke would have a high proportion of "preemies" anyway. To make sure, NIH's Dr. Richard Masland wants to check the same mothers before and after they quit smoking...
Lonely Are the Brave. Grim, stinking trailer trucks, the mechanistic behemoths of progress, thunder blindly along the highway. Near the white line dividing traffic, a high-strung horse skitters, rears and neighs in the kind of wild-eyed terror and anguish that Picasso gives to the horse in Guernica. The symbolic question is clear: Is the untamed free spirit an outlaw that must learn to toe the white lines of the modern world or perish...
...Tenniel, and expanded and rewritten, the first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland reached Alice exactly three years later. It was an immediate hit. and with its sequel, Through the Looking Glass, earned Carroll an affluence he did not want and the fame he detested. An aloof, high-strung eccentric, he insisted for the rest of his life that there was no connection between Lewis Carroll and Charles Dodgson, whose erudite treatises on mathematics and logic* were forgotten almost as quickly as his rules for Circular Billiards and the Dodgson Nyctograph, an invention for taking notes...
Restless Travelers. There was a good deal of comedy-which Aaron solemnly neglects-in the cultural shenanigans of the period. There was high irony in the complaints by the party about its flighty fellow travelers; it had corralled a mob of high-strung writers and complained because they would not become party hacks. The rebels would not "accept discipline"; they were full of "bourgeois illusions," "neuroses" and other grave crimes...