strung-out

• “Cohen is skillful indeed in deploying this language, and if readers are able to accustom themselves to Laster's strung-out, stop/start way of summoning up those events that have culminated in this night at Carnegie Hall, they will surely find themselves enjoying the jokes, the deliberate or not-so-deliberate malapropisms, the puns, the occasional passages of real eloquence.”

  Experimental Fiction

• “And another, and another, until I was basically a strung-out junkie, “chasing the dragon,” trying to re-create the original euphoria of the first hit, but needing more every time to even come close.”

  Simon & Schuster: Get Laid or Die Trying

• “They loaded his calendar with meetings, endless meetings, with nervous, strung-out entrepreneurs who wanted reassurance and guidance and, more than anything, money.”

  Simon & Schuster: Three Stages of Amazement

• “Braddock approached the Monongahela with a force superior to what the French and Indians could bring to bear against him, despite an impossibly strung-out supply line.”

  Simon & Schuster: George Washington’s First War

• “I'm sorry, but that Duchess would never have had that hallucination in a million years, no matter how strung-out and disoriented and agonized she was.”

  The Duchess of Malfi

• “For the most part his Holmes was a strung-out, drug-addled, hyper-neurotic Freudian case study, but then there was that sword fight on the top of the cars of a speeding train.”

  Holmes contra Holmes

• “The third piece, on a prominent Sunset Boulevard billboard, depicted a strung-out Mickey and Minnie Mouse partying with the advertisement's model.”

  The Huffington Post: Banksy Billboard On Sunset Boulevard Removed

• “Cooper had turned me into a strung-out love junkie.”

  Simon & Schuster: How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf

• “Try as she might, she could not picture her sister as some pill-popping, strung-out housewife.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Light at Winter’s End

• “Most of its 82 minutes consists of a cartoonish marathon, as a third-rate drug dealer pursues a strung-out rock singer who's on the heels of a feckless robber who screwed up a petty theft at the convenience store where the musician works.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Characters Attack

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