Word: overwrought
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...need to connect to the audience that makes Man a more successful tragedy than Helgeland’s Mystic River script. Scott’s actors play their melodramatic roles with a grace that Sean Penn did not achieve in that film’s overwrought dinner-theater performance. This decision gives what is essentially a well-written straight-to-HBO Rutger Hauer flick a core that Mystic never achieved. Can you imagine what Christopher Walken would have been in Eastwood’s hands? Here, he underplays his role. Let me repeat that: Walken underplays a role. The last...
...have the power to carry the crowd between dense rockers. Similarly disappointing was “I’m Still Your Fag,” although at least this song benefited from a sense of self-deprecating humor that was lacking on some of the more overwrought numbers...
...modern-rock guitar riff and studiously disinterested vocals from singer Alex Kapranos. Then the pace shifts, the guitar goes punk, the rhythm section goes disco, and Kapranos goes nuts. He's singing about how he would rather be shot than live without his girl, but Kapranos doesn't get overwrought. He doesn't really sing either--he swings, like Dean Martin on uppers...
...sample, like much of Kanye’s sources, is sublimated into a wisp of texture that sticks indelibly in your mind. It’s that sensitivity to sound itself that gives these potentially awkward mini-epics their fragile beauty. They’re pretentious, imperfect and overwrought, and flawlessly...
Senator, though not, in fact, a real person, is a typical member of Billionaires for Bush (B4B), an “exclusive” club that, as its website claims, helps to “counterbalance the overwrought concerns that are spoon-fed to voters about tax fairness, clean elections, global justice and environmental problems.” A strong supporter of George W., Senator, much like the other members of the club, will tell you that she joined to help those politicians who will keep her comfortable lifestyle unchanged for years to come. B4B chapters are springing...