Overwrought in a sentence

But the episode ignited a lengthy feud between the two divas, stoked by media gossip and overwrought opera fans.

He posted an Instagram story into the swirl of overwrought commentary.

He thought that was an “overwrought and tedious line,” until he had his own kid and now sees the world through her.

If nothing else, this overwrought issue dominates the media.

I was in the latter camp, though I thought the story probably worked better on stage, where its broad emotional strokes play to the back rows, rather than the screen, where they can feel overwrought.

And, this being San Francisco in the 1970s, it came with a theatrical flourish; Quentin Tarantino had to get his overwrought ideas somewhere.

A new orthodoxy immediately gripped the establishment press, which amplified the overwrought propaganda, complete with suggestions of dirty deals, dark conspiracies, and blackmail.

But the overwrought rhetoric surrounding this issue has prompted some Democratic presidential candidates, most notably Sen. Elizabeth Warren, to propose plans that would forgive some or all student debt.

For years I lived overwrought with shame because of the judgment from those who were not given the burden of my shoes to walk in. I allowed this shame to destroy my self-worth.

He doesn’t actually die in this infamous scene — just goes into a coma then wakes up to be blackmailed by Julie Cooper — but the shooting was so overwrought it inspired the whole ‘Mmm watcha say’ meme and this parody.

It turns out Jon Snow is actually the true heir to the Seven Kingdoms, the remaining Stark children finally team up to kill Littlefinger, admittedly in overwrought style, and the White Walkers use their new lizard hairdryer to destroy the wall.

Sluggish and overwrought, the latter seemed to be the kiss of death for Marvel’s mutants, the precursor to their eventual fate years before they were kicked out of Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite.

By this he meant overwrought bad writing.

It’s free from the overwrought thought processes that more formal reactions — art criticism — are so often burdened by.

The more feminists tried to call all this out, the more they were lampooned by the same male artists as overwrought and idiotic.

Unfortunately, Mahmoud Abbas’s overwrought speech excoriating the Trump administration and declaring that Jews are European-supported occupiers indicates how the messages have been received.

In consequence of a violent altercation on this account with Cardinal Farnese, Paul III, at the age of eighty-one years, became so overwrought that an attack of sickness ensued from which he died, 10 November 1549.

While fans have lauded them as thoughtful and intelligent, some critics have called them overwrought and bombastic.