Sentence examples for slightly overwrought from inspiring English sources

Those remarks have tended to be slightly overwrought, but the Patriots organization dutifully treats them as if they were pearls from Gettysburg.

The soprano Tony Arnold was a wide-eyed, slightly overwrought presence, but she brought remarkable flexibility, sensitivity and warmth to the keening, sometimes desperate vocal lines.

Ben Arnold Sky Atlantic tries to interest the UK again in this much-garlanded, if slightly overwrought, US high-school football drama.

Marshall is in his mid-30's, and with his slim build, fair complexion and slightly overwrought demeanor he could easily be mistaken for one of the dancers he treats.

Sure, he was objectively as good-looking as a model, and the cameras remained stuck on a slightly overwrought performance by Cyrus for most of his speech, but it was pretty moving television.

Using a roller, stencils and print-making techniques, she creates slightly overwrought landscapes whose repeating forms -- clouds, flowers, trees -- are composed of parts that seem to have a life of their own.

And the same politics books for all the naughty children who have been watching nothing but Love Island and Bake Off and pretending that the news is a slightly more overwrought branch of reality TV.

The ghost leitmotif is overwrought.

The comparison is overwrought.

Other formulations, however, felt overwrought.

Ervin's writing is often overwrought.