Word: strung
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...hauls out an immense volume of snapshots of the deceased. His sentimentalizing extends to their marriages, which he extols even as they cope with revelations of sexual infidelity and suffocating possessiveness. When the cheated-upon hostess is carried upstairs, hysterical, Colin assures the others she has always been high-strung from overwork at pleasing people. Ayckbourn too fiddles the emotional gears so deftly that the mood jolts from mirth to horror and back, sentence by sentence...
...ground offensive that they believe (and that, Arab diplomats close to Baghdad confide, Saddam also believes) will lead to a decisive military victory. As British Prime Minister John Major put it Friday afternoon, "It's time for ((Saddam)) to stop fooling about. We are not prepared to be strung along...
...America, owing to the vogue for his portraits among the robber barons of the early 20th century. Those who saw "Van Dyck in England," organized by Oliver Millar for the National Portrait Gallery in $ London eight years ago, are not likely to forget the impact of its high- strung, cool virtuosity. But the show did not travel to the U.S., and so the Van Dyck exhibition now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, curated with such care and scholarly zest by three art historians -- Susan J. Barnes, Julius S. Held and Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. -- offers many people...
...High-tension electric transmission lines. Strung along high towers, these lines carry large amounts of electricity over long distances. Homes, schools and playgrounds should not be built anywhere near them...
...That unnerved us. Also we kept hearing awful stories about doctors shot at hospitals, about incubators confiscated and babies left to die. We heard that Kuwaitis who hid Westerners were strung up and castrated in front of their own families. Some Arabs offered refuge to foreigners for long periods and then suddenly turned them in to the police. The stories made us more tense...