Outspoken, enthusiastic and prone to shrieks of excitement, Ms. Lam is like a wound-up Chinese Auntie Mame.
Weldon's host, Harry Harper, is a wound-up British Jerry Springer who uses his banana-sponsored TV show as a mix of ethical forum and public trial.
This contrast even extended to the sideline, where Prandelli prowled like a wound-up coil, and Del Bosque sat back in his seat, pondering the stalemate.
In the first part of the movie Mr. Reeves departs from the smooth-browed befuddlement that has become his trademark, and has some fun playing a wound-up, narcissistic jerk.
(It's touching, though, that the frames seem to be made of the very tortoiseshell that George would be happier living inside.) While trying to flee his planned wedding, George runs into Gérard (Hippolyte Girardot), a wound-up Frenchman with romantic woes: he has just seen his cornball attempt at an impromptu wedding at an airport go horribly wrong.
Like a wound-up clock, the new Edinburgh Parliament is going to start ticking the countdown to what the SNP hopes will be a new nation's birth, but what in reality will be the funeral of an old one, the United Kingdom.
It's no wonder, then, that included among her selection of work at Bergdorf Goodman is a gold ball ring that resembles a baby's rattle and a gold-and-diamond ring that looks like a wound-up ribbon, which in Greek culture is a symbol for everything from athletics to marriage.
A wound-up figment of my own abandoned fantasies... drinking champagne on a yacht with seven lucky Brazilians...my mind wanders to fleshier things.
It is a social critique, but it's all wound up in an action movie that's fun.
