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
Your Name director Makoto Shinkai returns with another highly wrought fable of young love, here featuring a teenage runaway who falls in love with a “sun girl” – a kid who can change the weather.
From The Guardian • May 12, 2020
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
It’s also written in an amazing, highly wrought poetic language, which can be off-putting at times, and at times absolutely irresistible.
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2012
A piece of description here follows which is one of the most highly wrought and splendid in Celtic or perhaps in any literature.
From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)
