Sentence examples for too high strung from inspiring English sources
The Royal Consort, Ingobaldo, saw it as his duty to have Tamarind leave the court-he thought the queen was too high strung for the feelings he aroused in her.
After searching for his own 3.0 CS -- at one point he went to Monterey, Calif., to attend a BMW show -- he decided that the 3.0 CS, like many beauties, would just be too high strung.
She added: "I am also way too high-strung.
Her grandmother reprimanded her as "too high-strung," warning that Rosa would be lynched before the age of 20.
Once he understands that smart kids are often too high-strung to be truly cool (in the flattened-affect, high-school sense of the word), he'll be forced to feel like a small fish in an enormous pond.
She was humanized but maybe also a little subjugated, and when we saw her through his eyes there seemed to be something the matter with her — she was too high-strung, had too much temperament.
Elaine May as an operator with Mike Nichols, the guy who put his last dime in the phone and can't get a penny of help from her? Or Elaine May as the long-suffering mother whose doctor says she's too high-strung to bear any stress argues with her rocket scientist son for not calling her for a few days?
Although friends knew him as extravagantly generous, he was also high-strung and volatile.
"Arabians are notoriously high strung," Ms. Stull said.
Is the last best hope of earth that high strung?
