Word: overwrought
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...narcissistic that every time they paw each other they seem to be polishing a mirror. They lavish the sort of affection and attention on each other that no one else could ever devote to them. That is no small part of the reason Wedding in Blood seems so overwrought, without the tension or the wit that marks Chabrol's best work. He adds, almost desperately, an echo of Greek tragedy in the plot's bleak resolution, but this only serves to make the film portentous. It lurches ahead in predictable little bursts of motion, like a trolley...
...protests seem slightly overwrought. Police insist that they are stopping only those blacks who fit the composite picture of the Zebra attacker and that they are acting within the law. There is, of course, firm legal precedent for stopping a citizen who matches the description of a suspected criminal. The San Francisco police cite the 1969 search for the Zodiac killer, in which, similarly, any white man matching a specific description was stopped. Meanwhile, Mayor Joseph Alioto is sensibly urging residents to submit willingly to questioning...
...condition has since stabilized, but at one point, said Stans, "I didn't expect her to live until my children saw her." Stans said that he was exhausted and overwrought when he went before the grand jury. Said he: "I did my best to pull the pieces together, but I got people in the wrong places, I got events on the wrong dates, I got situations confused...
...Washington. Baze, an expert on moving and storing oil, expected to be questioned about supplies, but Jackson asked him instead what Exxon's per-share dividends were. Baze did not know, and Jackson made a grandstand show of phoning a Washington stockbroker for the information. Last week an overwrought writer of a letter to the New York Times accused Exxon of "treason" for not supplying the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean during the Middle East
Occasionally the theatrics are improvised: in the 1957 Grey Cup a halfback racing down the sidelines suddenly fell on his face, tripped by an overwrought fan. For the most part, the play is livelier than in the U.S. because the rules are different. The fields are 10 yds. longer and 12 yds. wider, leaving far more space for the running game. Unlimited motion in the backfield makes it harder to defend against the run. The deeper end zone (25 yds. v. 10 yds. in the U.S.) allows attacking teams a chance to run full-throttle pass patterns from inside...