Word: overwrought
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Taliban regime in neighboring Afghanistan is forgotten. Her insistence that 3 million supporters thronged the streets of Karachi to greet her return from exile strains credibility, especially as most journalists and observers have put that number, by the most generous estimates, at 300,000. Most egregious however, are her overwrought descriptions of the terrible blast that same night. Her claim to have heard the faint cries of "Jeay Bhutto" - "Long live Bhutto" - from the wounded as they lay dying in the streets smacks of cheap political mythmaking...
...early support of the Taliban regime in neighboring Afghanistan is forgotten. Her insistence that 3 million supporters thronged the streets of Karachi to greet her return from exile strains credibility, especially as most journalists and observers put the number at a generous 300,000. Most egregious however, is her overwrought descriptions of the terrible blast that same night. The death toll is enough; her account of watching a video of the event later and hearing the faint cry of Jeay Bhutto - "long live Bhutto" - from the wounded as they lay dying in the streets smacks of political aggrandizement...
...government crisis. "Che coraggio!?" an Italian might say with an apt double meaning: "What courage?" and "What gall!" Just 24 hours later, Mastella was already being publicly courted by Silvio Berlusconi, ever-present opposition chief, Prodi archnemesis and former - and would-be future - Prime Minister. Despite its air of overwrought soap opera, Italy's latest government crisis is almost anticlimactic. Prodi took office in 2006 with a razor-thin majority in the Senate, backed by disparate allies who didn't trust each other; most of them possessed enough votes to trigger a collapse. But the fate of the coalition...
...McCain's seeming reluctance to overtly engage in the kind of overwrought attacks on Clinton that have characterized the campaigns of the other front-runners first became apparent in early October. After McCain spontaneously discarded a prepared speech that was sharply critical of Clinton, pundits speculated that he had acted out of misplaced chivalry or affection for his Senate colleague; aides insisted that McCain simply didn't think that the venue - a military academy - and the audience - high school students - was the right place to engage in even a gentle discussion of the differences between the former...
...designed by Todd Weekley), often slamming and whirling its four doors, all with different heights and configurations of knobs and mounted in stark white and green walls. Although he was dressed in a red onesie, and spoke often of an imaginary princess, Cosgrove’s childishness was never overwrought. And as he frantically paced the stage, his tie flapping, patient Jon (Michael R. Wolfe ’09) successfully encapsulated the caricature of a businessman, a stumbling sycophant, and a poignant romantic in one character. Wolfe’s contorting arms seemed to spin his elaborate lies into being...