Word: overwrought
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...aural part of Madden's performance, however, that severely damages of this difficult role is that it requires the actor to be overwrought for a prolonged time and yet clear. Madden gargles his denunciation of Camillo, and speech after speech in his lengthy argument with Paulina is not intelligible. And when he comes to speaking over the wind-storm, it's impossible to make out a single syllable...
...Rega's departure, she gripped the microphones until her knuckles whitened and ominously declared: "Do not forget General Perón, who gave his life in pursuit of national unity even as I am doing at this very moment." Even to television viewers, the President looked overwrought and almost skeletal. Last week labor leaders had to stop reading a lengthy document outlining their economic proposals for ending the current fiscal crisis because Mrs. Perón was clearly not well enough for a long meeting...
...daughters scarcely help. Goneril (Jane White) spits out her lines like a fishwife. As Regan, Maria Tucci seems to be tapping an unseen toe in overwrought pique, and Michele Shay's Cordelia might have strayed onstage from an elocution class. Only Lee Richardson's loyal Kent seems equally loyal to Shakespeare. The rest outshine the dark with unlit candles...
...event is skillfully and elaborately staged, but wildly overwrought. The announcer at the premiere is made up to look like Hitler, and his excitement drives the crowd to greater excesses of violence. It moves like a marauding army. Not only are people trampled and windows broken, but fires start, telephone poles fall, and Hollywood Boulevard seems to shake. West's modest riot was more effective than Schlesinger's whole set piece. But this silly cameo of World War II is perfectly in order for a movie so far out of control...
Three Witches, now seem overwrought, to the edge of absurdity, one should remember how much closer Fuseli's whole sense of posture, gesture and staging was to the conventions of 18th century theater than to those of the Royal Shakespeare Company...