Word: overwrought
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reader may feel at this point that what he needs is not zwieback but a drink. There is no shortage of wry, clever novels by and about overwrought young mothers. And initially this unassuming first novel by Johanna Davis seems to be a fairly conventional example of obstetrical fiction. Its heroine, a likable, gifted young Manhattan woman named Camilla Ryder, is dismayed during her second pregnancy to discover that her mind has gone womby. She hears voices, sees things that aren't there, frightens her husband with screams in the night, gobbles uppers given to her by a dippy...
...going gets tough, the tough get going." That prompted Ervin to ask slyly and rhetorically: "How long after that did Mitchell leave the campaign?" (In fact, it was a week later.) Then Sloan took his complaint to White House Appointments Secretary Dwight Chapin, who told him he was "overwrought" and should take a vacation. Ehrlichman counseled: "Do not tell me the details. 1 do not want to know." Frederick LaRue suggested that Sloan take the Fifth Amendment to stay in the good graces of the campaign organization. Disgusted and disillusioned, Sloan resigned from the committee, eliciting from Ervin the homily...
...money found on the defendants (the police reported several thousand dollars) would be traced to him, he asked what he should do. Ehrlichman assured him that the matter would be covered by Executive privilege "at least until after the election." Said the White House domestic chief: "You are overwrought. You should take a vacation. It is also important to protect the President...
...approach, similar to Arthur Janov's "primal scream" therapy, is to teach members of his groups "to grab hold of a feeling-any feeling-and express it in a series of yells, screams and moans which increase in volume to almost unbearable intensity." Overwrought, the patient is then soothed by the rest of his group, as well as by Casriel, if he is present, or by one of the ex-patients who run most of Casriel's groups. No effort is made to understand the emotions that have so painfully -and dangerously-been aroused...
...Finally there is a cli max of unsparing hilarity: a send-up of From Here to Eternity entitled From Here to Obscurity, starring Caesar as Montgomery Bugle; and a devastating reworking of a TV show called This Is Your Story, with Reiner as an impervious M.C., Caesar as an overwrought, reluctant guest, and Howard Morris as an absurdly lachrymose relative given to clutching convulsions...