Word: overwrought
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...Gazette "for demonstrating the highest qualities of civic leadership, journalistic responsibility and moral courage in the face of mounting public tension." Wrote the judges: "The newspaper's fearless and completely objective news coverage, plus its reasoned and moderate policy, did much to restore calmness and order to an overwrought community...
...Overwrought by her brother's case...
...tense courtroom, tearful Student Toth pleaded extenuating circumstances. "I was completely overwrought," she said. "I thought I had to do everything for the revolution." She could not understand why Russia, a friend of Hungary, had sent in troops, and she insisted that the aims of the students who took up arms were not subversive. Said Freedom Fighter Toth: "Whatever I might have done, I do not consider myself a murderess...
...play had its overwrought romantic egoist of a heroine delving among memories of her father, of the men in her life, and of herself at earlier stages (played by three other actresses who vaguely resembled...
...result is some of the most unquiet desperation of the past few seasons. Possibly Playwright Nash, who showed plenty of humor in The Rainmaker and has glints of it here, intended something more relaxed. If so, his failure lies partly in an ill-wrought play, partly in an overwrought production. Barring the loudmouthed stranger (well-played by Pat Hingle), who for a time is invigorating, the characters do little more than suffer from upset psyches or indulge in the sexual miseries. Each revealing scene is repeated, with variations, two or three times, and betweenwhiles a neighborhood trumpeter steadily caterwauls offstage...