Word: overwrought
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...think we'll ever go back to previous overwrought spending? Not for a while. I think things are going to get better, but I think there has been a fundamental change in people's heads. We are not going to stop buying, but we may not shop to the degree we did in the past. I really think we are going to be more measured for the foreseeable future...
...growing chorus of market watchers says no. The concern is that the stock market is overwrought and that down is the only sensible direction to head. Sure, individual companies have been quick to bounce lower based on bad news. Both insurance outfits and financial firms lost ground on Tuesday thanks to two big events - the passage of a health-reform bill by a key Senate committee and a Goldman Sachs downgrade by an influential banks analyst. (Read "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning...
...from its overbearing gloom. The unyielding, pounding percussion only reinforces the prevailing theme. The album’s best songs, “Death +” and “Before Tigers,” succeed because they eschew the affectations of noise rock and the excesses of overwrought industrial metal, instead incorporating their androgynous vocals and skillful arrangements into a jammy, electronica–meets–rock framework that resembles, without imitating, the more relaxed aesthetic that Radiohead employed with “In Rainbows.” The restraint demonstrated in these songs make them...
...married; they "cherish marriage and hold it to an impossibly high standard," the authors found, but too often forgo it as a result. Meanwhile, the middle class has spent the past 2½ decades - during which the divorce culture became a fact of life - turning weddings into overwrought exercises in consumer spending, as if by just plunking down enough cash for the flower girls' dresses and tissue-lined envelopes for the RSVP cards, we can somehow improve our chance of going the distance. Think of the touching moments on Inauguration Night, when at ball after ball, crowds of young people...
...Family in America Today, he notes that unmarried parents in Europe stay together longer than married parents in the U.S. "Marriage is a more powerful symbol here," he says. "It's the ultimate merit badge of personal life." And if it doesn't fulfill people's (often overwrought) expectations, they leave...