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She rewards him with a nervous, carefully studied, somewhat overintense performance.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is a generalized mild anhedonia in the community, which has its origin in the fatigue of overintense purposes, failure to realize ideals and the difficulties of choice.

From The Foundations of Personality by Myerson, Abraham