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push your parents into the gas ovens of managed health care," warned one especially overwrought Democratic challenger in the fall elections.
As IBM's Chung-Jen Tan, the leader of the Deep Blue team, recognized with his overwrought For the Ages rhetoric ("historically for mankind, this is like landing on the moon"), the match will go down in the permanent record of human-computer relations.
Most mock Mehta for his overwrought prose and depictions of Shawn's impeccable editing.
But neither of these overwrought images of fierce division captures today's more complex reality.
The new Denzel Washington crime thriller is said to suffer from an overwrought screenplay and a far-fetched conceit: A detective battles a demon that jumps from one person to another when they touch.