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
With its patterns and repetitions, scrutinising its own workings from every possible angle, the novella becomes a highly wrought meditation on ageing, memory and regret.
From The Guardian • Jul. 26, 2011
Neither is the kind of highly wrought content gala — newspaper, magazine, aggregator — that people in the heyday of “portals” once predicted would be everyone’s first stop on the Web.
From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2010
His organisation was too sensitive, too highly wrought, eager, nervous, for the dull plodding of daily life.
From World's End A Story in Three Books by Jefferies, Richard
