highly wrought

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.

Though I am well-disposed, with reservations, to Sorkin’s habitual high-mindedness and his highly wrought, even overwrought bantering dialogue — which I once described as bearing “the same relation to actual human speech as a Globetrotters routine does to professional basketball,” and thank you, history, for the opportunity to repeat that — I was never the world’s biggest “West Wing” fan.

Protecting clueless humanity from what they don’t know but can definitely hurt them, they dispatch an encyclopedic array of science-fiction and supernatural threats with deadpan aplomb and highly wrought, pulp-elegant dialogue S.J.

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.

Walker Evans contributed a preface to the 1960 reissue of “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” the study of poor tenant farmers in Alabama, originally published in 1941; “Walker” crops up a number of times in James Agee’s text, but a formal separation is maintained between the tenderly austere photographs of families and their homes — printed at the beginning — and the 400 pages of Agee’s highly wrought, much-agonized-over text.