Sentence examples for being overwrought from inspiring English sources

Outlaw's food is smart without being overwrought.

But the book is too conspicuously bighearted to make him much of a threat, so he hovers somewhere between being overwrought and superfluous.

I want to show there's a soft side to her, so to point it out without being overwrought or sentimental all the time.

Fosca, after all, is not averse to being a touch dramatic about her plight — Donna Murphy won a Tony for her portrayal in the original production — but the role runs the risk of being overwrought.

For all their witty brilliance, the sense of proselytisation in these essays is insistent - almost, in its elegant way, militant - and the Nietzschean assertion of the superiority of the artist over all creation is on the brink of being overwrought.

I recall it, albeit vaguely, as being overwrought, though my sense of how much wreaking or working is apt has likely changed in the intervening years and I'm interested to see it again.

This is overwrought.

The ghost leitmotif is overwrought.

The comparison is overwrought.

The boy was overwrought, consumed by anxiety.

There are overwrought speeches aplenty.