Word: overwrought
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...script overplays Sally's rebellion and her mother's comeuppance as much as it exaggerates the spoils of tennis commercialism. Actress Trevor holds out best, but not entirely, against the abrupt, overwrought style that Director Ida Lupino, staging her fourth movie, seems to have carried over intact from her own jittery screen personality...
...variety of foreign accents, the actors seem at times about to burst into arias, an impression the score compounds with passages from Tosca and Bohème. The accent of heavily costumed Actress Domergue wavers between Corsica and California; yet, possibly because the setting is suitable, her overwrought style seems more fitting than it did in Where Danger Lives (TIME...
...page set of rules resulted in a running fight between overwrought undergraduates, the council, and the Dean's Office during March and May. Besides holding meetings of extra-curricular lead- ers to draft a less complicated code, many students also began clamoring for the abolition of the Student Council...
With such reflections in his head, Francis Stuart has been reconsidering the life & times of himself and his I.R.A. friends. Redemption, a feverish search for a new "breadth of understanding," is the product of that reconsideration. Though written in the overwrought, pseudo-prophetic manner of D. H. Lawrence's later novels, it is a fascinating book. Its central character, a tempest-tossed Irishman named Ezra Arrigho, has spent the war in Germany and has just returned to Ireland to settle down in a little town. What can he say of it? Scornfully, Ezra decides that most of its people...
Director Jules (The Naked City) Dassin's staging and Franz Waxman's overwrought musical score try to outdo each other in stridency. Aging (seventyish) Wrestler Zbyszko is natural and dignified in his acting debut, and Actor Widmark turns the neat trick of working up some sympathy for an unsavory character...