highly wrought
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This included highly wrought confessional lyrics, long polysyllabic song titles, and the conjunction of hard, even thrash-derived sounds like a screamed chorus with much softer instrumental passages.
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2022
He creates benches, lamps, and stools that are highly wrought, yet are made of the most basic materials: unfinished wood scraps, PVC piping, and electrical cords.
From The New Yorker ● May 25, 2017
It’s also written in an amazing, highly wrought poetic language, which can be off-putting at times, and at times absolutely irresistible.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2012
At the Serpentine you have blobs; at the Wallace, highly wrought life-like figures.
From The Guardian ● May 12, 2010
The hole seemed to him too choked up with “larnin’” for the rat ever to come out—he could glean nothing from this highly wrought and highly polished enthusiasm.
From The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit by Richard Harris
