high-wrought

But such high wrought feelings could not remain long in the same ecstatic tone.

Is there not a distinctively womanly strain of emotion in the throbbing tides of her high-wrought melodious song?

The spectators murmured a joyful applause, in high wrought expectation of the bloody game.

Towards the end your high-wrought imagination can almost smell the sticking plaister, so vivid is the picture.

But she put by the suggestion as the wild improbable coinage of her own high wrought imagination.