high-wrought

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There is no glamour, no ecstasy, no high-wrought moment in his tranquil pages.

From Time Magazine Archive

This venerable structure is cruciform, of large dimensions, and of the early Gothic architecture, though not without much of the high-wrought fret-work additions of later ages. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.

These three high-wrought strokes of satirical humour were perhaps never equalled by any exertion of the pencil; excelled they cannot be.

From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by Trusler, John

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

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John

Lamartine gives us a picture of the East by candle-light—a high-wrought picture, certainly; but after all nothing but canvas.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor