wrought-up
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Still, there is a certain monotony to the production: Shakespeare’s wondrous variety has been leeched from the text, leaving in its wake a single, sustained tone of wrought-up emotion.
From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2014
With its soft rugs, its gilded mirrors, its glittering chandeliers and the Roman grandeur of its outsized bathtubs, the Ritz breathed an atmosphere of continental elegance calculated to soothe the wrought-up millionaire.
From Time Magazine Archive
Transferred to Panama in 1960, he smoothed Panamanians' wrought-up feelings about the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone so successfully that President Kennedy asked him to stay on as the New Frontier's only noncareer ambassadorial holdover.
From Time Magazine Archive
To show how wrought-up earlier interventionists had been, he quoted some of Ames's sentences on Napoleon which sounded exactly like Walter Lippmann's sentences on Hitler.
From Time Magazine Archive
Broader and broader does this become, the strained eyeballs of the wrought-up savages bent upon it with concentrated stare.
From John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Mitford, Bertram
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