high-wrought

From this high-wrought picture, one would suppose that we were in a condition the most deplorable of any people upon earth.

The death of Wallenstein does not cause tears; but it is perhaps the most high-wrought scene of the play.

Blank verse is judiciously mingled with lyric meters, which are only introduced at moments of high-wrought feeling.

She understood not his high-wrought scruples, his self-deluding belief.