high-strung
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Her mother described her as “a very high strung and supersensitive girl who does not seem to understand how to cope with the rebuffs of this crass world.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2023
“Such a gifted & bold actress. From her brilliant & tender performance in The Last Picture Show, while playing high strung Phyllis Lindstrom on The Mary Tyler Moore Show I became a lifelong fan.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2021
“She managed a month filming in Sri Lanka, although there were stresses during it and she was clearly very high strung at that period,” claimed Strachan.
From Fox News • Feb. 27, 2019
I have to add, I noticed many of the people that I worked with during my short stint were "high strung".
From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2017
“She was exactly like Celia sounds. Cheerleader, very high strung, very...what’s the word I want...”
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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