high-wrought

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There is no glamour, no ecstasy, no high-wrought moment in his tranquil pages.

From Time Magazine Archive

But no high-wrought description can add to the actual terror of that day, as recounted by historians.

From From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)

He is too scornful, too high-wrought, too bitter.

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew

But there was leisure for few tears just then; and too high-wrought a state of the nerves to seek much indulgence in them.

From Diana by Warner, Susan

Lamartine gives us a picture of the East by candle-light—a high-wrought picture, certainly; but after all nothing but canvas.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor