More stories are ruined by the writer's stubborn attachment to his own overwrought prose than by almost anything else.

Duke's emotional proximity to her subject is perhaps to blame for her tendency toward overwrought prose and rather torturously mixed metaphors.

The testosterone fad seems to be over among writers of overwrought prose.

He speaks in overwrought prose, animated in equal parts by hostility and sentiment.

Such overwrought prose obscures the behind-the-scenes account of the junior and pro circuits.

Her "overwrought prose has gone grotesquely rococo," says Entertainment Weekly 's Vanessa Friedman.

Told in the first person by Poe himself and filled with references to his as yet unwritten stories and poems, the novel unfortunately suffers from overwrought prose.

Part of the problem is the overwrought prose in the libretto by the director Colin Graham, who also staged this starkly effective production.

Also problematic is Jordan's frequent use of the overwrought prose of politically correct cliche.

Most mock Mehta for his overwrought prose and depictions of Shawn's impeccable editing.