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In part, the overwrought reaction of the British media reflects their irritation with the holier-than-thou Blair and their impatience, more than a year into his premiership, to catch him out at something . They have longed to show that Blair's New Laborites are as scheming and money-grubbing as the Old Tories were.
Her "overwrought prose has gone grotesquely rococo," says Entertainment Weekly 's Vanessa Friedman.
You may find this a bit overwrought (I do), you may question the facts or take a more worldly view of what should be done about them.
The ballads, on the other hand, are overwrought and declarative.
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.