Word: overwrought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With such reflections in his head, Francis Stuart has been reconsidering the life & times of himself and his I.R.A. friends. Redemption, a feverish search for a new "breadth of understanding," is the product of that reconsideration. Though written in the overwrought, pseudo-prophetic manner of D. H. Lawrence's later novels, it is a fascinating book. Its central character, a tempest-tossed Irishman named Ezra Arrigho, has spent the war in Germany and has just returned to Ireland to settle down in a little town. What can he say of it? Scornfully, Ezra decides that most of its people...
Director Jules (The Naked City) Dassin's staging and Franz Waxman's overwrought musical score try to outdo each other in stridency. Aging (seventyish) Wrestler Zbyszko is natural and dignified in his acting debut, and Actor Widmark turns the neat trick of working up some sympathy for an unsavory character...
...rival teams and his own teammates. A poorly written script suggests but hardly exploits the dramatic conflicts and personal anguish of Robinson's hard-won success, first with Montreal and then with the Dodgers. Its arguments for tolerance and fair play, as spoken flourishingly by Actor Watson, are overwrought and sometimes speciously reasoned. Its footage is cluttered with sports announcers telling the audience things that the picture ought to show. The movie even fails to make its baseball scenes look convincing. The fact that the moviegoer can nevertheless salvage something stirring out of these muffed opportunities is a better...
Also, again & again the radio cried "spy," which, to Jackin Saij's overwrought mind, sounded like his own name, with which it roughly rhymes...
...become a physician after reading Lloyd C. Douglas' Magnificent Obsession, who refused to send bills to people who could not afford to pay them, who sometimes slept, exhausted, on the floor of his office, who in the last few months before Mrs. Borroto's death had become overwrought, mentally and physically fatigued...