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high-strung
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  • I watch her all the time doing things in measured sequence, skillfully, with seeming ease, unlike my former wives, who had a tendency to feel estranged from the objective world-a self-absorbed and high-strung bunch, with ties to the intelligence community.†   (source)
  • She's so high-strung Simon can almost feel her vibrating, like a stretched rope.†   (source)
  • They are athletic, tall, lanky, thin, but have VERY hyper, high-strung personalities, which do not lend themselves to being the best 'family dogs' On the other hand, the English Labs are very blocky, stocky, shorter in their build.†   (source)
  • Her health's not too good, she's high-strung to begin with.†   (source)
  • She's just a little …. high-strung."†   (source)
  • A member of the Non-European Unity Movement, Don had grown up in the diamond-mining area of Kimberley and was a rugged, fearless fellow who was also highly strung.†   (source)
  • When he lets his hands and face move like they want to and doesn't try to hold them back, they flow and gesture in a way that's real pretty to watch, but when he worries about them and tries to hold back he becomes a wild, jerky puppet doing a high-strung dance.†   (source)
  • I would tell her all kinds of stories I'd heard about horse farms, such as the fact that the really high-strung horses had TVs in their stalls.†   (source)
  • On May 23 he had seemed so uncharacteristically narcotized in starting-gate drills that a bystander had remarked, "You'd swear he was a dull-witted lead pony instead of the high-strung animal he is.†   (source)
  • Paul sold Christmas wreaths to the parishioners each year, and his wife, Phyllis, was tall and high-strung.†   (source)
  • He was a brisk, pudgy, high-strung person whose movements were swift and certain.†   (source)
  • Berman, an awkward, high-strung guy with gaze aversion, comes out from behind the table.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Pate, our teacher, was a little high-strung; outbursts made her nervous.†   (source)
  • They re pretty high-strung in there.†   (source)
  • Likely he's skittish and high-strung.†   (source)
  • Even his sense of humor was a sensitive, high-strung instrument, and I had learned to play it delicately.†   (source)
  • Nelson described her as high-strung, overwrought.†   (source)
  • High-strung, this neighbor was.†   (source)
  • High-strung Mary Elizabeth couldn't stand Frank, Jr.'s , slow talking, so she shouted at him.†   (source)
  • Nathan had always been high-strung, vivacious, talkative, agitated; since throughout the first five months they were together (and they were together constantly) she rarely saw him in the act of taking "the stuff," she made only the most belated connection between drugs and what she simply thought was his somewhat frenetic but ordinary behavior.†   (source)
  • THE HAMILTONS WERE STRANGE, high-strung people, and some of them were tuned too high and they snapped.†   (source)
  • The three women… Hazel, who was rather high-strung, to say the least, at the wheel.†   (source)
  • TYRONE Why, nothing, except you've seemed a bit high-strung the past few days.†   (source)
  • All that unbridled high-strung exuberance consumed vast amounts of energy.†   (source)
  • Eyes flittered about the room on high-strung nerves.†   (source)
  • A high-strung, self-serious young man from the upper crust of English-speaking Montreal society, he was a brilliant medical researcher who went on a big mountaineering expedition every two or three years but otherwise had little time for climbing.†   (source)
  • By nature I am high-strung and animated, but when frustration confronts me head-on, I degenerate into a demoniac.†   (source)
  • The former seemed to be merely the result of weariness on a naturally high-strung temperament; the latter, the result of strain, of inner maladjustment.†   (source)
  • You're high-strung, honey.†   (source)
  • It's just that we're both high-strung, and this week— (His voice is curiously old.†   (source)
  • You high-strung Bohemian can't understand us.†   (source)
  • It was eloquent, vibrating with eloquence, but too high-strung, I think.†   (source)
  • Suddenly the quietness split to a chorus of snappy, high-strung, strange barks.†   (source)
  • "She always was highly strung," pursued Henry, leaning back in the car as it shot past the church.†   (source)
  • For that matter, high-strung and finely sensitive, the ill treatment had flung him into a fever, which was fed by the inflammation of his parched and swollen throat and tongue.†   (source)
  • Angus and Leora kept up a high-strung chatter, while Martin stalked beside them, silent, sulky, proud of being sulky.†   (source)
  • It must not be thought that any one could have mistaken her for a nervous, sensitive, high-strung nature, east unduly upon a cold, calculating, and un-poetic world.†   (source)
  • I really believe that a finely-organized, high-strung man would suffer twice and thrice as much as they from a like injury.†   (source)
  • Rosemary had a vision of the desperate vigil that high-strung, badly organized man had probably kept.†   (source)
  • The girl's highly strung imagination, her affectionate and credulous mind, the primitive education which had surrounded her childhood with a circle of legends, the constant brooding over her dead father and, above all, the state of sublime ecstasy into which music threw her from the moment that this art was made manifest to her in certain exceptional conditions, as in the churchyard at Perros; all this seemed to him to constitute a moral ground only too favorable for the malevolent…†   (source)
  • She had humor; she had intellect; she could cook to perfection; and her highly strung temperament made her uncertain, incalculable, variable, capricious, cruel, in a word, enchanting.†   (source)
  • I was pretty high-strung.†   (source)
  • He accepted all that his high-strung companion offered him, and put them away in what he supposed to be a very safe place; but poor Babcock never afterwards recognized his gifts among the articles that Newman had in daily use.†   (source)
  • Yes, your twaddle has made me quite high-strung, And I now insist that you hold your tongue.†   (source)
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