Neither is Reese Witherspoon's high-strung mom, Madeline Martha Mackenzie, who's worried about her impending identity loss when she's no longer a full-time mom, just high-strung.
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It's a humbling, calming force for this high strung spitfire.
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JEANNETTE CATSOULIS "High Strung" is rated PG (Parental guidance suggested).
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If you want to be charitable, Sale is high strung.
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Jane, a high-strung, impulsive girl, two years younger than Mary.
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"I write pretty fast, because I'm high strung," Mr. Backman said.
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The security operation, too, felt more respectful, smoother, less high strung.
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His high-strung behavior suggested he had more running to do.
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Henry Rollins plays the high-strung coach of a youth hockey team.
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He was high strung and he loved his map of the world.
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"When we first got him, he was Mr. High Strung," said Wycoff.
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It's totally livable, with the high-strung engine docile at low speed.
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Blunt plays Emily, the experienced assistant, who is high strung and comically offputting.
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She's trying to do it all in her slightly high-strung, overwhelmed way.
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Something a little eager to please, a little vulnerable, a little high-strung.
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It also was quieter (though not quiet) in cruising, unlike the high-strung 600LT.
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Ahead, Shannon explains how to feel calm during the most high-strung holiday parties.
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It's well known that high-strung, type A behavior is bad for your health.
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She's increasingly high-strung, while his chill attitude at times can read as apathy.
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He was a real nervous animal — high strung and on edge all the time.
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They clearly heeded the results, and tailored their product to this famously high-strung cohort.
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High-strung, eccentric and paranoid, she prowls the corridors of her sprawling bungalow at night.
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While he is soft-spoken, she can be high-strung and quick to be upset.
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"High-strung, upper-middle-class white people are a minority population in New York," Solnit says.
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Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican played in extremely high-strung fashion by SNL alum, Bill Hader.
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Afterward everyone has a good chuckle about the high-strung weathermen who got it all wrong.
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Playing a high-strung ballerina who dances into the dark side, Portman won her first Oscar.
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Many chefs swaddle and spoil foie gras as if it were a high-strung show dog.
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Her parents were conservative country-club people, who regarded their high-strung child with some perplexity.
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The high-strung thong trend started popping up on the runway again in 2017, according to Vogue.
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In today's high-strung, overcharged world we need to teach our kids that it's OK to fail.
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She remembered him when he had been a high-strung, lighthearted boy, full of talk and fun.
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"It used to be much worse, but he's essentially very very high strung," electricsheepz wrote on Reddit.
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At Newsweek, Mr. Elfin had a reputation as a witty, no-nonsense, sarcastic and high-strung boss.
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A similar event triggers "The Violin," Dan McCormick's clumsily crafted, finely acted and, yes, high-strung drama.
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His high-strung wife is prone to bouts of hypochondria; she insists the company is poisoning the water.
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Sadly, these elements don't make up for the ponderous, portentous storytelling in this high-strung and histrionic novel.
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The casting of comedian Mike Birbiglia added an uncharacteristically mellow presence to this high-strung, hard-charging show.
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Essentially, neither is high strung, but Aquarians' mothers tend to care about things a little more than their daughters.
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Ms. Rae-Fisher's aesthetic doesn't stray far from Ms. Monte's, especially in its high-strung mode of emotional expression.
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And the film's determination to veer into gross-out territory occasionally turns the high-strung tension into awkward laughs.
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I worked in construction all my life, so that's the guy I was: a high-strung, values type of person.
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She was the high-strung younger sister of Roseanne who was always looking for love, sometimes in the wrong places.
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Priya, who's got some damned good reasons to be high-strung, jumped in her seat and looked ready to bolt.
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" She was the inspiration for Holly Hunter's high-strung and highly ethical producer in the Oscar-nominated movie "Broadcast News.
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It was not a high-strung first few moments of hand-wringing and awkward icebreakers — the conversation just seemed to blossom.
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He described him as high-strung, the kind of person who became angry when stopped at the airport by immigration officers.
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"He seemed high strung and nervous," Mr. Westcott said in an interview with the Nashville newspaper The Tennessean in December 1945.
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" And later this year she'll return as Diane, the high-strung confidante of Sarah Jessica Parker's uncoupled Frances, in HBO's "Divorce.
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She and Ms. Walsh worried at first that someone so high strung was not right for the laid-back Mr. O'Keefe.
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Then she makes a complaint to the head of Daddy's arts foundation who dismisses them because actresses are notoriously high-strung.
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Cameron is based in Los Angeles, while Doherty, a U.K. native, spent time filming the movie High Strung: Free Dance in Romania.
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So many of the doctors wrote off what Gilda was telling them by saying she was a high-strung, emotional, nervous girl.
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Anger rooms have become all the rage for the high-strung person who needs a "safe space" to blow off some steam.
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Stacy, a high-strung, loquacious student from Westchester, whose wardrobe consisted solely of pastel velour tracksuits, lived in the room next to me.
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Amy Jellicoe was as unlikable as heroines got on TV in 2011: a high-strung, self-obsessed do-gooder who exudes weaponized optimism.
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It's a fair enough question, not least because Brad is played by Ben Stiller, a frighteningly high-strung performer even at his mellowest.
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Once more, Baffert needed time to master the intricacies of training high-strung and fragile athletes that carry their speed beyond a mile.
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He thought it strange that Johnathan and McCormick had been placed in the same cell, as Johnathan was "high strung" and McCormick quiet.
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Of the many confusing and random turns in Mr. Maillot's high-strung, unfulfilling production, one point is clear: Our Prince has a foot fetish.
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High-strung and reclusive, he speaks of a nonexistent girlfriend, Muriel, who manifests the guilty memory of a wartime atrocity in which he participated.
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Thin-boned and petite, with sharp eyes behind oversized glasses, she had the high-strung yet unruffled quality of a bird on a wire.
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This premiere of the 12th season includes a horse with teeth troubles, chickens whose clucks have turned to gurgles and some high-strung emus.
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" The reason Wolff has described the car as high-strung, Allison said, is that it can be balanced "but it also makes us sweat.
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David's high-strung and anxious about his career, and has been feeling increasingly restless about his relationship with his yoga instructor girlfriend (Brick's Nora Zehetner).
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"Being high-strung and nervous and then having a kid, it's like — holy smokes," said Mr. Hubig, who works up to 80 hours a week.
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The Clippers of Chris Paul and Doc Rivers—two of the most high-strung individuals in the league—rarely come off this happy-go-lucky.
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Thankfully, the long strange trip is fueled by Beauman's gorgeous descriptions and hysterically funny bits (one involving a Pomeranian and a high-strung newspaper editor).
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Of course, that same high-strung fandom tends to freak out at any mention of diversity and turn their personal prejudices into attacks on Rotten Tomatoes.
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He enjoys a carrot in his bed while I do a quick 2826-minute guided meditation to try to avoid another high-strung day like yesterday.
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He's a working-dog breed, so they're high-strung in the first place, and if I don't take him to get any exercise, he's pretty crazy.
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I idolized pop culture figures like Rory Gilmore, Lizzie McGuire, and Joey Potter — high-strung perfectionists whose elevated standards and careful decisions led them to success.
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Both series are about families of high-strung fools who try to compensate for the emptiness at their core with the status symbols of extreme wealth.
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The image we have of her is colored by her husband's characters — high-strung, vivacious manic pixie dream girls, with a melancholy streak à la Daisy Buchanan.
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Sputtering and high-strung, April tiptoes up to the edge of self-assertion, and then falls backward into a familiar pit of shame, self-doubt and frustration.
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Whatever you are bleeds into others, and earlier in my career, I was a little bit more high-strung and I worried about things that didn't matter.
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"Touched With Fire" is an actor's field day, and both Mr. Kirby and Ms. Holmes boldly meet the challenge of playing bright, high-strung artists struggling with depression.
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Episode 8If The Crown was 27 Dresses, Elizabeth would be Katherine Heigl's character: high-strung, martyr complex, unable to relinquish control, stickler for the rules at all costs.
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As multiple biographies have noted over the last 2000 years, he is a particularly modern figure — high-strung, quotable, irritable, irreligious, prone to bouts of anxiety and depression.
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Jake's parents knew he could be high-strung; in middle school, they sent him to a therapist when he was too scared to sleep in his own room.
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Anguished, restless, high-strung, desolate, Munch (21893-21910) was a young boy when his mother died of tuberculosis; his beloved older sister, Sophie, succumbed to the same disease.
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" But the doctors – every one of them for 10 months – took note of the fact that Gilda was a high-strung person and kept telling her, "No, don't worry.
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Allison Williams plays a high-strung twenty-something on the hit TV show Girls, trying to carve out her career path while balancing the ups and downs of adulthood.
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SAN FRANCISCO — In this season of random assassinations and political uproar, who could resist the temptation to supplement a high-strung and frightening reality with some gentle make-believe?
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But this 2009 performance is the perfect embodiment of what made her huge, with its high-strung dancing, massive vocals, and a stunning breakdown on a white grand piano.
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Her characters are high-strung women in the thick of busy lives, whose interiors Metcalf, from the midst of her own busy life, evokes with care, ingenuity and intensity.
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We are both on antidepressants: The cat because he's high-strung, and me because I left my abusive family household last year and have had panic attacks and guilt.
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The most daring move, though, was the new girlfriend, who was a lanky, striking, high-strung and highly sexual ball of fire played with utter conviction by Madeline Wise.
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That's not to say "Treadstone" will be for everybody, but it manages to wed the serialized qualities of a TV series with the high-strung paranoia that powered the movies.
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She also plays a character similar to her high-strung, heavy-planning Leslie Knope, here leading a group of friends into the vineyards of California for a 50th birthday celebration.
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As my mother had a stroke six months prior to my diagnosis, and as I've always been a little high-strung, I checked off two of these three indicators easily.
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That especially includes the high-strung Gaga (Jeanine Serralles, unraveling hilariously), who comes from a family of gun-crazy sheriffs and happens to be the sister of Deon's dead mother.
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The nervous, high-strung Jurati doesn't seem to want to do it — but she reveals as Maddox is dying that she knows things Maddox doesn't, making his death a necessity.
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"Every teenage year that I lived was in this band, on tour," said Mr. Farro, 26, a lovable goof whose mellow presence balances that of his more high-strung bandmates.
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She might be the eloquently rationalizing Humbert Humbert of the neighborhood, or maybe the spooked and high-strung governess in "The Turn of the Screw," losing herself in an obsession.
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But instead Ms. Washburn has created a host of dramatis personae who are just a tad too high strung, burned out, paranoid and guilty to be what they initially seem.
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Siraj's father similarly pushed back on the idea that his son was a religious extremist, but he noted that the younger Siraj could be "extreme" and high-strung, according to CNN.
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Oh. Slowly, though, she found her niche playing beautiful women, more often than not of a certain age, who functioned as a sort of highbrow, high-class, high-strung femme fatale.
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During a suite of songs from "She Loves Me," in which she played Amalia in the acclaimed Broadway revival, she infused the character with a mischievous, high-strung zest for adventure.
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Damien is a spoiled, high-strung son of Marianne (Sandrine Kiberlain), a doctor from the valley below, and her husband, Nathan (Alexis Loret), a helicopter pilot in an unidentified war zone.
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Maybe the invocations of both that film and Blade Runner are intentional, though, casting the sonic trappings of the often-misinterpreted cyberpunk subgenre onto a high-strung but ordinary crime story.
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As predictable as the candles-and-roses-strewn loft where the couple's matching pouts first collide, "High Strung" prefers penciled-in stereotypes — the queen bee; the risk-taking roommate — to real characters.
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But he said his son's behavior could be "extreme" and described him as high-strung, the kind of person who became angry when stopped at the airport by immigration officers, he said.
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Despite the popular perception — part myth, part hope — that the work of fashion takes place amid tantrums and rages, high-strung and fabulous, as often as not, the reality is more workmanlike.
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He had puffy cheeks, slightly sunken eyes, straight brown hair, and a kind of goofy, high-strung optimism at odds with the popular notion of chefs as chilly sophisticates or imperious pirates.
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Among the many interplanetary travels that eventually landed the Little Prince on Earth, the most emotional involves his fraught romance with a vain, high-strung rose, which drove him to leave the asteroid.
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It's good for me because I'm a hyper, high-strung New Yorker who grew up in Bed-Stuy, which was very violent back in the day, and it really helps me chill out.
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"New York is hectic, high strung and full of energy," said Laura Cerrano, the chief executive of Feng Shui Manhattan and a second-generation feng shui consultant trained by her mother, Carole Provenzale.
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The service, which can cost up to $395, utilizes acupuncture, facial cupping, Gua Sha massage, aromatherapy, and the strategic placement of colorful healing crystals and stones to depuff and destress high-strung skin.
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For David Greenberg, a professor of history, journalism, and media studies at Rutgers University, Trump's casual approach to the truth is a hallmark of the current "explosive, high-strung, fearful moment" in American history.
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Cameron, who recently starred in the Hollywood Bowl's production of Mamma Mia, reconnected with her boyfriend when she went to visit him on the set of his upcoming movie High Strung: Free Dance in Romania.
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The entire cast — including Ben Stiller as Sandler's successful, high-strung half brother; Elizabeth Marvel as their diffident sister; and Emma Thompson as Hoffman's flighty third wife — is fabulous, as is Baumbach's witty, thoughtful script.
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He was frequently foul-mouthed early in his career, and he remained feisty and high-strung, burning off his nervous energy between points by feverishly picking at his strings or grabbing reflexively at his shirt.
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His trainer, Mikio Matsunaga, said the mile-and-a-half Belmont Stakes was always their main target because the son of the high-strung Tapit has the training and pedigree to handle the extraordinary distance.
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She earned another Tony nomination, for a 543 musical adaptation of "Grand Hotel," in which she was Grushinskaya, the high-strung ballerina, nostalgic for her glory days, played by Greta Garbo in the 254 film.
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If you do, you'll find — once you get past the painful first episode — pretty much what you would if you selected any random episode from the series's eight-season run: a tart, high-strung quip-delivery device.
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Back in 2014, The High Strung frontman Josh Malerman wrote his debut novel, Bird Box — a chilling post-apocalyptic story about a young mother trying to get her two children to safety in a world overrun with monsters.
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Enter Miriam, now a young mother with an expensive stroller, who's desperate to connect, nearly weeping from fatigue and loneliness—and Mamie and Mary have to decide whether to deal with this high-strung white stranger's emotional needs.
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Her character, Rio, is a high-strung New York therapist who packs her Nespresso machine for the agrarian life after her husband, Mike, a music journalist played by Dax Shepard, inherits a bucolic farm from a great-aunt.
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Mr. Nelson plays Walter's dour son, Adam, whose scolding high-strung wife, Jill (Jessica Hecht), is being tested for ovarian cancer; they have two rebellious teenagers whose flagrant pot-smoking on the roof of their building has incensed the other tenants.
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In Felicity, one of the 1990's quintessential coming-of-age dramas, actress Keri Russell portrays the title character, Felicity Porter, a high-strung, high-school graduate who follows her longtime crush to New York City instead of enrolling at Stanford.
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"I don't teach the same class that I teach in downtown TriBeCa to a group of high-strung New Yorkers," says Courtney, who was an instructor at that city's popular Kula studio and produces electronic music in his spare time.
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On Tuesday morning, love and money planet Venus meets Jupiter, the planet of abundance at 7:26 AM, helping us smooth over whatever high-strung eclipse antics occurred over the weekend by offering an excess of warmth and well wishes.
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Suffice it to say that it's the result of a failed interrogation of an unmoved high school student by "The Dude," an aging hippie slacker played by Jeff Bridges; his high-strung friend, Vietnam veteran Walter (John Goodman); and chill Donny (Steve Buscemi).
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There's really only one reason to see "High Strung" — Michael Damian's wishy-washy nod to "Fame" (1980) — and that's the ebullient choreography of Dave Scott, whose accelerated and witty hip-hop routines have long been highlights of movies and reality television shows.
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The Administration was a family story, part drama—the loss of two-day-old Patrick Kennedy during its last summer—and part raucous sitcom: the pool parties at the home of J.F.K.'s kid brother Bobby, the high-strung Beaver to his Wally.
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All of the middlemen—that hostess with the perpetual shit-eating grin, a high-strung general manager who hovers over the guests, the guy who folds your napkin into a swan while you take a leak in the john—are out of the picture.
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Kaine came out of the gate high-strung and more canned than a twitch-inducing energy drink Tuesday night in Farmville, Va., throwing out constant rehearsed lines about Trump's taxes and offensive rhetoric and dumping them on the lap of Pence, to little effect.
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She weaved through the other mothers, smiling and saying a few words in passing, Caitlin, sunny and sweet, catching his eye and giving him that old conspiratorial squint, the two of them still able to bond over the dubious appeal of these high-strung parents.
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Most tantalizingly, though, was the show's drawn-out revelation of the events that led to the decimation of human civilization, something it seems season three will explore further, in between pregnancy-related hijinks and whatever high-strung madness Forte's Phil gets up to this time around.
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It's adorably nerdy and suggests that Stone is a Type A high achiever, a profile that her laid-back, slightly lazy charisma allows her to carry in a way that a star with a more high-strung presence, like Anne Hathaway, wouldn't be able to pull off.
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A 17-year-old military school runaway (Kieran Culkin) rebels against his preppy older brother (Ryan Phillippe) and high-strung mother (Susan Sarandon) by camping out in a New York loft, where he finds solace with the heroin-addicted trophy girlfriend of his wealthy godfather (Jeff Goldblum).
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But Thanksgiving still belongs to a single film released 30 years ago this week: John Hughes's Planes, Trains and Automobiles, starring Steve Martin as a high-strung advertising exec just trying to get home for the holidays and John Candy as a boisterous, talkative traveling salesman trying to help.
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Returning director Jon Watts did a marvelous job of building out the supporting cast — Jacob Batalon as best-pal Ned; Zendaya as a refreshingly enigmatic version of Peter's crush, MJ; Tony Revolori as rich-kid jerk Flash Thompson; Angourie Rice as Betty; Martin Starr as the kids' high-strung faculty chaperone.
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The Guy's clients run the human spectrum: an agoraphobe starved for connection; a woman fighting cancer; bougie married swingers; a father retired from corporate life living below his high-strung daughter — all of them turning to pot in anxious times to "find equilibrium," as a New Yorker review put it.
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With two people who are both heavily socialized to anticipate and meet everyone else's emotional needs, the dynamic can become a kind of high-alert empathy, each constantly attempting to decode what the other might be thinking, hypersensitive to any change in pitch or tone, like a pair of high-strung racehorses.
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Josh Malerman, the author of the delirious new novel BLACK MAD WHEEL (Ecco, $26.99), is relatively new to horror fiction — his first book, "Bird Box," was published three years ago — but he's a rock veteran: He has been the lead singer of the Detroit band the High Strung for over 20 years.
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But that's never meant that a generation doesn't crave voices — plural — and Grown-ish aims to spin the Black-ish formula into a series that acts as one for Generation Z. Black-ish takes on the spirit of black affluence in Generation X through the point of view of a goofy, high-strung dad.
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Meanwhile, the drama showcases elements that characterize The Bachelor behind the scenes — namely, sleep deprivation, unlimited alcohol, and lack of contact with the outside world — as high-strung women come for a cocktail party in UnReal's premiere, are met with flutes of champagne, and finally stagger out of the first rose ceremony in the first light of dawn.
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A group of obsessive parents and their gymnast daughters — you'd be hard pressed to say which group is more high-strung — are at a suburban catering hall, celebrating the success of the 15-year-old Devon Knox, an aborning Nadia Comaneci, who has just completed a regional competition that puts her on track for the Olympics.
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No matter your preferences, Lifetime is delivering: there will be magic (A Christmas Wish, Magical Christmas Shoes), a little (Christmas a la Mode, Grounded for Christmas) and more than one story about a high-strung businesswoman returning to her quaint hometown just in time to discover the real meaning of Christmas (Christmas in Louisiana, Sweet Mountain Christmas).
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Marnell worships her demanding fashionista boss — the legendary Jean Godfrey-June — and all of her demands: When a high-strung, thoroughbred Condé Nasty like Jean (who could be scary, believe me) or Anna [Wintour, Vogue editor and the basis for the titular "devil" in The Devil Wears Prada] or any of them — was cracking her Hermès whip, it was an honor to jump.
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The opening track in question, "FloriDada," starts with a series of innocent metronomic ticks before exploding into a bright, electronic cacophony: Squelching modular synth lines and frog-like bass tones frolic with the hyper vocals of Avey Tare and Panda Bear, who sing in a high-strung and overlapping style that leaves you imagining the chaos going down in the studio.
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"When I have the right horse in the future," he said, "I definitely would like to come back to the Belmont, but also to the other big races in the U.S." The trainer Mikio Matsunaga is eager to show he can improve on the performance of Lani, whose high-strung nature appeared to work against him during his time in the United States.
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In my experience, there are three primary types of people who hire wedding planners: the high-strung micro-manager who'd prefer if you used the spreadsheets he or she has already created; the flaky free spirit who can't make decisions and has allergic reactions to to-do lists; and the level-headed unicorns — couples who actually know when to chill and when to be proactive.
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So in an attempt to find some kind of unified theory on proper Venmo etiquette, I decided to pose one very awkward question to a seven-person Brooklyn-based friend group (in fact, my friend group) whose Venmo habits run the gamut between the breezy "it all comes out in the wash" folks and the high-strung spreadsheet-keepers: Do you send Venmo requests for amounts under $5?
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KWAME OPAM 'Broadcast News' | Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube, Google Play One of the great love-triangle movies of all time, James L. Brooks's comedy-drama (set in the world of network television news) finds Holly Hunter, in her breakthrough role, as a high-strung producer torn between two potential partners: Albert Brooks (as a reporter with a great mind but no physical spark) and William Hurt (as the hotshot new anchor with a killer bod and an empty head).
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The dynamic Alexander Scheer (in the role of Lord Byron, whose poem "Manfred" is quoted from at length) and the high-strung Daniel Zillmann (playing a Parisian theater director) easily outshine the play's central duo: Martin Wuttke plays Faust with a thuggish gruffness that quickly gets tiresome; Marc Hosemann's muscular and mischievous Mephisto was more impressive — until this endurance test of a production took its toll and he began to lose his voice toward the end of the evening.
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