Word: overwrought
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...rival teams and his own teammates. A poorly written script suggests but hardly exploits the dramatic conflicts and personal anguish of Robinson's hard-won success, first with Montreal and then with the Dodgers. Its arguments for tolerance and fair play, as spoken flourishingly by Actor Watson, are overwrought and sometimes speciously reasoned. Its footage is cluttered with sports announcers telling the audience things that the picture ought to show. The movie even fails to make its baseball scenes look convincing. The fact that the moviegoer can nevertheless salvage something stirring out of these muffed opportunities is a better...
Also, again & again the radio cried "spy," which, to Jackin Saij's overwrought mind, sounded like his own name, with which it roughly rhymes...
...become a physician after reading Lloyd C. Douglas' Magnificent Obsession, who refused to send bills to people who could not afford to pay them, who sometimes slept, exhausted, on the floor of his office, who in the last few months before Mrs. Borroto's death had become overwrought, mentally and physically fatigued...
...Beirne Lay Jr. from their own scenario-like novel about a heavy bomber group in the U.S. Army's Eighth Air Force (in which they both served), Twelve 0'Clock High has the uncommon merit of restraint. It avoids such cinemilitary booby traps as self-conscious heroics, overwrought battle scenes and the women left behind or picked up along the way. (In fact, women appear only in bit parts.) The picture concentrates on an engrossing human crisis posed by the demands of the early air war's "maximum effort...
Give Him the Simple Life. Oregon's Republican Wayne Morse was the most overwrought Senator of the week. What brought him to his feet was the bill to give the President a raise. "There is entirely too much high living in Washington," he said. He saw a trend, reflected in the President's increased expense account, "resulting in an overemphasis of the social aspects of government service . . . Cocktail parties that cost from $500 to $1,000 should not be considered as being a necessary expense or social obligation of ... public office in this country . . .What Washington D.C. needs...