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  • All this -- well fed or ill fed, underwrought or overwrought, clothed or naked, caressed or kicked, whether idle songs break from his thoughtless tongue or "tears be his meat night and day," fondly cherished or cruelly murdered; -- _all this_ ENTERS VITALLY INTO THE

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • All this -- well fed or ill fed, underwrought or overwrought, clothed or naked, caressed or kicked, whether idle songs break from his thoughtless tongue or "tears be his meat night and day," fondly cherished or cruelly murdered; -- _all this_

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • All this -- well fed or ill fed, underwrought or overwrought, clothed or naked, caressed or kicked, whether idle songs break from his thoughtless tongue or "tears be his meat night and day," fondly cherished or cruelly murdered; -- _all this_

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

  • Dylan's tone, disrupted by the right-on overstatement of his previous album, becomes drunkenly uncontrolled: overwrought and underwrought within a couplet, wandering between careless and portentous from line to line, scansion buckling as lazy rhymes are ladled on with slack disregard.

    Expecting Rain The Beat Patrol 2010

  • Because the show, which Ms. Tharp has also conceived and directed, is underwrought as drama, the sheer intensity of the dancing becomes its main point.

    NYT > Home Page By ALASTAIR MACAULAY 2010

  • The confrontation scene with her parents and Paris is conventional if underwrought; Juliet lingers too long with Friar Lawrence — and, like Romeo, can’t stop hugging him; the potion scene is drained of emotion — and since she isn’t going to wake up in the tomb but in her own bed, there are no phantoms to be frightened of.

    A Happy Ending, No Balcony���Wherefore Art Thou, Romeo? 2008

  • The confrontation scene with her parents and Paris is conventional if underwrought; Juliet lingers too long with Friar Lawrence — and, like Romeo, can’t stop hugging him; the potion scene is drained of emotion — and since she isn’t going to wake up in the tomb but in her own bed, there are no phantoms to be frightened of.

    A Happy Ending, No Balcony���Wherefore Art Thou, Romeo? 2008

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