• If Swans--another yacht with a monied following--are the BMWs of the sea, these are the Bugattis--high-performance, high-strung, temperamental.

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  • His high-strung attorney wife Hannah, (a moving, desperately perky portrayal by Hannah Cabell), is worried about losing her job.

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  • Miami Beach boasts a manic, cosmopolitan nightlife, inventive plastic surgery and a glorious beach that has become a spring-break destination for high-strung collegians.

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  • That makes the roughly 40 patients who stream into Mr. Cass's midtown office each week appear even more anxious and high-strung than before.

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  • There are brilliant, accomplished women who are also irrational, high-strung lunatics the dames and muses who pop their eyes and throw jealous fits when not urging the Great Man on.

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  • Friends describe Amy as a loving, if high-strung, mother.

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  • The movie is high-strung yet shock-proofed.

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  • The Sun Kil Moon version of "Convenient Parking, " from what might be Modest Mouse's best record, 1997's "The Lonesome Crowded West, " definitely gets the song's slow-burn intensity, teasing it out on his acoustic guitar as if over the course of making this record Isaac Brock's high-strung delivery has gotten under Kozelek's skin.

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  • For the main arteries of its network, SpeedNet will use 64, 000-kilometres of Tepco's high-speed data links, which are strung along the streets and railway lines of greater Tokyo, sharing poles and conduits with its electricity cables.

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  • The fence consisted of seven or eight strands of high-voltage barbed wire, spaced about a foot apart, strung between tall poles.

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  • Wasps, with full-back Mark van Gisbergen enduring a difficult afternoon under the high ball, strung little together in terms of sustained attacking play.

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