Word: overwrought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crucible also suffers from an occasional note of strain and shrillness in the writing, and this is pointed up by Michael Murray's somewhat overwrought direction, which tends too much toward stealthy, wildly disarrayed entrances and impassioned throwings to the ground. The play needs this sort of effect, and would be dull if Mr. Miller had not contrived frequent occasion for it; but Mr. Murray does not know quite when to stop. However, he has handled several of the crises with great skill...
...Behind the coupled heroes, the moviemakers have sketched a mud-grimed tableau of the blood-happy townsmen giving chase and a soul-weary sheriff-played to sunken-eyed, raspy-throated perfection by Theodore Bikel. If Sidney Poitier's wild-eyed, bare-fanged portrayal of Cullen is overwrought, it has at least prodded Teen-Agitator Curtis into the first performance of his career that will incline the old folks to a modest whoop...
...Gazette "for demonstrating the highest qualities of civic leadership, journalistic responsibility and moral courage in the face of mounting public tension." Wrote the judges: "The newspaper's fearless and completely objective news coverage, plus its reasoned and moderate policy, did much to restore calmness and order to an overwrought community...
...Overwrought by her brother's case...
...tense courtroom, tearful Student Toth pleaded extenuating circumstances. "I was completely overwrought," she said. "I thought I had to do everything for the revolution." She could not understand why Russia, a friend of Hungary, had sent in troops, and she insisted that the aims of the students who took up arms were not subversive. Said Freedom Fighter Toth: "Whatever I might have done, I do not consider myself a murderess...