highly wrought
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This included highly wrought confessional lyrics, long polysyllabic song titles, and the conjunction of hard, even thrash-derived sounds like a screamed chorus with much softer instrumental passages.
From Salon • Dec. 19, 2022
He creates benches, lamps, and stools that are highly wrought, yet are made of the most basic materials: unfinished wood scraps, PVC piping, and electrical cords.
From The New Yorker • May 25, 2017
Like the best narrative poets, Lamar has a genius for wringing uncommon emotion out of highly wrought verse.
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2015
He has increasingly made use of pre-existing music – by the Elizabethan Christopher Tye in one work, by Schoenberg in another – as a starting point or a reference for his own highly wrought schemes.
From The Guardian • Nov. 20, 2010
The fact is that My youthful bride is of a temperament Too highly wrought and o'er hysterical.
From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III by M. Y. Halidom (pseud. Dryasdust)
