Sentence examples for overwrought emotion from inspiring English sources

Everything unfolds in an atmosphere of self-conscious stagecraft and deliberately overwrought emotion.

Bridges and Hofmeyr's politics are as prone to kitsch and overwrought emotion as Bles Bridges' ballads.

There's lunacy in each atom of its structure and overwrought emotion in every revolution of the crankshaft in its 550-horsepower 5.9-liter V-12.

The Lower Ninth Ward became, in the aftermath of Katrina, a vortex of overwrought emotion and intemperate rhetoric, a stand-in for conflicting visions of the city's future.

With his robust, warm voice, he brought a blend of yearning and reticence to his singing, without a trace of overwrought emotion.

But a movie about people who cry fake tears for money, and for complete strangers, would be ill advised to indulge in displays of overwrought emotion.

As Ken Davidoff writes in The New York Post, Rivera played it with his usual poise, leaving the overwrought emotions to everyone else.

Screaming and flailing, she can be read as a commentary on ballet and Martha Graham (the costumes, the overwrought emotions), as well as on the stereotype of the hysterical woman.

Fine sentiments perhaps, but also a sign of overwrought emotions, of the pressure of playing without their superstar and the doubts that exposed.

The new brand of sad-lad Emo-DM producers present their overwrought emotions nuance-free, telling tortuous stories of love, loss and international travel with absolute sincerity.

Every scene is blazingly overwrought, every emotion tuned to the maximum.