Interpreting lyrics with great care and enunciating with a precision that clarifies every syllable, he projects an ingenuous high-strung sensitivity.
At 60, this folk-pop crooner from Queens still exudes the high-strung sensitivity of an earnest, poetry-scribbling college student loping among ivy walls with a book bag slung over his shoulder.
Compared with another former jazz prodigy, Harry Connick Jr., Mr. Cincotti is much more restrained and introspective, and he enunciates lyrics with great care to project a youthful, high-strung sensitivity.
And since when did "high strung" become a synonym for "playground bully"?
I'm physically very energetic and high strung.
"Arabians are notoriously high strung," Ms. Stull said.
Is the last best hope of earth that high strung?
Do that, he said, "and hopefully your nerves aren't high strung".
But she was so high strung and overwrought that I find it very relaxing to read her.
I know I'm high strung, but who wouldn't freak out after seeing these?
