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Example sentences for: overwrought

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2) As wise as Hornby's warning against overwrought adolescent feeling is, the alternatives aren't very appealing.
But if I tend to get overwrought on the subject, it's only because there's so much noise coming from the other side.
Panning Mason & Dixon, the New Republic 's James Wood declares Thomas Pynchon's penchant for allegory tiresome and his alleged cleverness to be overwrought and heavy-handed.
Most mock Mehta for his overwrought prose and depictions of Shawn's impeccable editing.
Her "overwrought prose has gone grotesquely rococo," says Entertainment Weekly 's Vanessa Friedman.