Word: overwrought
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While the play does occasionally resort to outright hysterics, such outbursts are always both warranted and intensely moving. In particular, Martin’s and Kargman’s messy, passionate performances are so intensely emotional that, in intimate theater, they transcend the sometimes overwrought melodrama of great Russian writing, and they manage to transmit to the audience something heartbreakingly real...
...don’t know the answer, but I sincerely hope that the original negatives of the films released this summer are slowly burning in the smoldering pile of corpses (victims of Martian death-rays and overwrought post-9/11 political commentary) pulled out of the theatre where I caught a screening of “War of the Worlds.” The only reason to save the films would be for an anthropology paper entitled, “Poop and Culture: Ethnographically Approximating the Root Causes of Loose Stool,” which has already been written several...
...storm hit, but has made several missteps as well, including a failure to get enough buses to people stranded in flooded neighborhoods, his baffling four-day disappearance during the second week of the crisis when he went to Dallas to rent a house for his family and his overwrought estimate that the city's death toll could be 10,000 instead of the likely finally tally of less than...
...forgive those occasional lapses (and the occasional overwrought speech of Dumbledore) because Rowling has more important things to focus on. It probably does all does boil down to love, like Dumbledore said, but that turns out to be a more complicated proposition than you might think. For Rowling, love is not just a “force” to be accessed in order to turn on your light saber, something some of us have been blessed with and others born without; it can also be a choice, an impediment, and even—we are led to believe?...
...will warp the market. Western oil majors are concerned that "they won't be able to compete," according to Gary Ross, CEO of Petroleum Industry Research Associates, because the Chinese companies, most still state owned, are "willing to accept a lower rate of return." Those concerns may be overwrought. To acquire Unocal, CNOOC (whose market capitalization is about $22 billion) would have to offer more than $17 billion, plus pay the $500 million breakup fee Chevron booby-trapped to its Unocal bid. "It's all about money," says a banker close to CNOOC. "Nothing else...