Word: high-strung
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...Jude and Shazzer. As they work their way through their various relationships, that friendship is both funny and genuinely warm. The casual acceptance of smoking, alcohol use and sex (aside: could Renee Zellweger, recently cast as Bridget, duplicate this very British aspect of Bridget?) shows that Bridget is less high-strung than Ally McBeal, the inevitable object of comparison. And some genuinely hilarious moments pepper the novel: going to Mark Darcy's house and finding a "lithe oriental boy, stark naked, smiling weirdly, and holding out two wooden balls on a string and a baby rabbit...
...more attractive and a lot less high-strung," she says...
...iron man of Italian opera is dipping a toe into the German repertoire, and he proves surprisingly comfortable with Gustav Mahler's song cycle Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth). Domingo isn't quite high-strung enough for Mahler's angst-ridden emotional world, but he makes an impassioned impression all the same, and though he no longer has the brilliance and heft needed to sail effortlessly above the gigantic orchestra, who does? Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic provide solid support. A+ for effort...
...terrible things smoking does to your body. I am sure the smokers in the readership would tell me the problem is not ignorance; it's denial. It's just that smoking seems to ease out the wrinkles of the Harvard day and keeps things focused at the high-strung level of Harvard student performance...
...people like him who hold our lives in the palm of their hands-cool-headed operators that are responsible for the safety of millions everday. Adventurous people who thrive on an atmosphere of high pressure and anxiety. Stressed-out husbands who are in the midst of third marriages and never have time for their families. And high-strung workers who are only human. They, too, can let personal problems manifest themselves into rivalries...