overwrought
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While critics were hard on her later novels, arguing that her writing had become too over-wrought and her plots too tangled, Morrison was undeterred.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2019
The back and forth is a bit over-wrought with hackneyed lines like, “Is this what we’re to expect from our ambassador? A hothead?”
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2015
In one of the film’s early scenes, the police break up a Paris street protest led by an over-wrought Jean, still wielding a bullhorn like a young left-wing agitator.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2013
Even setting aside the really obnoxious coughing from our protagonist as he hacks his way through the burning building, the whole thing just feels over-wrought.
From Forbes • May 20, 2012
I could see that you were utterly over-wrought.
From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie
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