He is married to a huge, ugly, high-strung woman.
She was a very high-strung woman, quite prone to tension headaches and that sort of thing.
One of Nate's clients, a high-strung woman named Harriet, offers Ruby a job at her jewelry store in the mall.
But his disappearance is too much for the high-strung woman: she throws herself into a lake and drowns.
Shock can do that to high-strung women.
She appears to be a high-strung woman, a condition Holden relates to Allie's death.
The author professed to be intrigued by the the pathology of a relationship between a man of brute force and a high-strung woman.
Now she was a high-strung woman with faded blue eyes, dirty-blond hair, and a doughy body.
Or is she simply a high-strung woman, suffering from delusions of persecution?