over-wrought

If you think of opera as an often bloated, over-wrought art form with hammy plots and acting, you would do well to try this one.

Pilgrimage Into a Dark Night of the Soul Jeanne Whalen 2011

One of my margin notes says the characters are a little over-wrought.

Mike Smith: Home Run for Harbach Mike Smith 2011

If this were art, it would be Expressionist—distorted and over-wrought but packing an emotional punch.

The Crème of the Krémes in Budapest András Szántó 2011

If I were in his position and taking flak from over-wrought hand-wringing activists, I'd tell em ', "If you think its so easy, get off your arse and help me find it!"

Tim Pawlenty Under Gun Over Wounded Buck 2009

The emotions rise from the subtext and take center-stage in rousing number after number until my ability to respond to rousing music kind of numbed out -- although that may have been because I found the music bland -- except for those based most directly on actual ragtime, which were much fresher than the over-wrought ballads and anthems of the rest.

Ragtime deliasherman 2010

But Parker will eventually be remembered as an anachronism, a false idol of over-wrought marketing and vinous worship.

Tasting Bordeaux 2005 blind with Robert Parker | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

At such moments I find it well to turn to the testimony of other men to prove to myself that I am not becoming over-wrought and addle-pated.

THE GHETTO 2010

Not with the smouldering, smothering, choking hysteria that still worked in the fox-terriers did he listen, nor with quivering of muscles and jumps of over-wrought nerves, but coolly, composedly, as if no battle royal had just taken place and no rips of teeth and kicks of feet still burned and ached his body.

CHAPTER VI 2010

This fear is born of a largely febrile and over-wrought imagination and has never seriously been entertained by Uefa or Fifa.

What do we know about football? Sweet SFA | Kevin McKenna 2012

If I were in his position and taking flak from over-wrought hand-wringing activists, I'd tell em ', "If you think its so easy, get off your arse and help me find it!"

Tim Pawlenty Under Gun Over Wounded Buck 2009