Sentence examples for overwrought text from inspiring English sources

I could have done without Peter Kaminsky's sometimes wackily overwrought text, which can sound like movie-trailer writing: "In the city that never sleeps there is a chef who barely sleeps: a bespectacled dynamo who speaks rock-and-roll slang with a thick Lyonnaise accent and who serves forth exquisite renditions of French country fare alongside modern fantasies of global culture".

The ghost leitmotif is overwrought.

The comparison is overwrought.

Other formulations, however, felt overwrought.

I found him much too overwrought and biased.

The boy was overwrought, consumed by anxiety.

Ervin's writing is often overwrought.

Then, sometimes, she can get overwrought.

Let's not get overwrought.

There are overwrought speeches aplenty.

The notion is completely overwrought.