Sentence examples for overwrought language from inspiring English sources

Why? Was it the overwrought language, or the underdeveloped plot?

But the play's contrived plotting and overwrought language smother any such points in melodramatics.

The transcript reveals a conversation soaked in ambiguity, and rendered in overwrought language.

There are scenes, Als notes, in which Robeson "struggles with O'Neill's fantastical, overwrought language as though it were an ill-fitting mask".

In any cacophonous political year, campaigns rely on overwrought language to break through the din, a practice that serves only to escalate the daily war of words.

When government spokesmen use overwrought language, it's because they're about to lie When people use words such as "concurrently" instead of "at the same time", or say, "I myself", I just go, "Agh!".

Where was Steele's editor in the face of this overwrought and overreaching language?

Though his poetry became somewhat more colloquial, his extravagant language, overwrought style and inflation of reality continued to jar when the fashion was for detached, cool, ironic understatement.

Robbie compares these preachy episodes to an "epidemic" threatening comedy, drawing a parallel between the overwrought fears and language of the anti-drug movement ("When one show does an anti-drug episode, other shows feel pressured to do one, too") and joking that they're "even going after the younger shows," since Dinosaurs was only in its second season at this point.

Robbie compares these preachy episodes to an "epidemic" threatening comedy, drawing a parallel between the overwrought fears and language of the anti-drug movement ("When one show does an anti-drug episode, other shows feel pressured to do one, too") and joking that they're "even going after the younger shows," since Dinosaurs was only in its second season at this point.

Perhaps inevitably, his language was overwrought at times.