overwound

An overwound clock began unraveling in her chest, time spinning out of control as she fought for breath.

The Home for Broken Hearts Rowan Coleman 2010

Barthelmess mostly fares okay, other than a few over-the-top speeches, but the fresh-faced Fairbanks can't shake a kind of gee-whiz naiveté, and William Janney, playing Scott's younger brother Donny, is even more overwound.

The Dawn Patrol (1930) Ed Howard 2009

I was cast into story conflict without even the teeniest chance of caring about it, and the writer kept the pacing so overwound that there was never an opportunity for correcting the fatal flaw.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Beginnings 2006

As if that's not bad enough, my pipettes were pilfered by the student/postdocs and are now broken, overwound and/or covered in a sludge that may or may not be biological waste.

Messy labs - Part 2 Professor in Training 2008

There's Lumiere, a candelabra with the pizzazz of Maurice Chevalier; Cogsworth (David Ogden Stiers), an overwound mantle clock with a taste for puns ( "If it's not baroque, don't fix it"); a warm English teapot (Angela Lansbury) and her baby cup, Chip.

Just The Way Walt Made 'Em 2008

So her spring is, shall we say, just a tiny bit overwound, he said.

The Merlot Murders Ellen Crosby 2006

So her spring is, shall we say, just a tiny bit overwound, he said.

The Merlot Murders Ellen Crosby 2006

The question issuing from Shitworth Whitworth MA, a sarcastic man who appeared to have been overwound, whose skin vibrated like a percussion instrument when he was upset, and who owned the biggest collection of detachable stiff white collars, always worn with blue and pink striped shirts, and always half a size too tight, any of us had ever seen.

Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

So her spring is, shall we say, just a tiny bit overwound, he said.

The Merlot Murders Ellen Crosby 2006

So her spring is, shall we say, just a tiny bit overwound, he said.

The Merlot Murders Ellen Crosby 2006