high-strung
at great tension; highly excitable or nervous; edgy: high-strung nerves; a high-strung person.
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How to use high-strung in a sentence
He was “high-strung”—intensely neurotic—yet a charismatic personality nonetheless.
The Devil and Woodrow Wilson: An Interview With Joyce Carol Oates | Jane Ciabattari | March 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHe is high-strung and on edge, and his volatility practically sears the screen.
Overacting Anonymous: The Christian Bale and Natalie Portman Edition | Tricia Romano | February 20, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTThe real Sean Parker (who I profiled for the September issue of Vanity Fair) is certainly high-strung.
Henry acknowledged in her that great quality of the nervous temperament, the power of rising high-strung to an emergency.
The Creators | May SinclairStarbright was right in saying Dade Morgan was proud and high-strung.
Frank Merriwell's Pursuit | Burt L. Standish
high-strung and neurotic, the strain of newspaper work and the tumult of the Comstock had told on him.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow PaineWe are even willing to believe that a high-strung, nervous girl may imagine herself to be the subject of miraculous influences.
The English Stage | Augustin FilonBut 'Liz'beth wan't no kind of a mother for such a high-strung lad.
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