overwrought

That kind of overwrought rhetoric seems mismatched with the feebleness of the actual effort to keep Mamdani out of office.

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks,” she whispers of an overwrought performance shown on stage in the Shakespearean tragedy.

It’s time for the SEC to revoke this inappropriate and overwrought rule.

Lately, however, there are signs that the story has entered its baroque phase, as firms have to reach further and further to meet heightened expectations, and some new efforts begin to feel overwrought.

This contrast is a good deal more dramatically compelling than the somewhat overwrought psychological drama that exerts a regressive pull on “anthropology.”