Due in part to his high-strung nature, however, he suffered a nervous breakdown during the 1936 season.

Her health was only made worse by worry about her sons ' health: John was perpetually nervous, and Alan was high-strung and sickly.

* Lizzie — A high-strung, nervous mare whom Lady Anne rides one day and is spooked until Black Beauty comes to her aid with his rider.

She is a high-strung, nervous child with a delicate stomach.

The Taurean / Gemini is prone to be scattered, fickle, dual, changeable, restless, blunt, wear-them-selves-out, over-indulgent, nervous, high-strung, and reluctant to confront fears and insecurities.

Mahovlich spent time in hospital with a nervous breakdown, and the season was marred by contract disputes and tension with the high-strung coach, Punch Imlach.

Beatty was an intelligent and able leader, but all his social and sporting obligations, coupled with his high-strung temperament, prevented him from becoming a coldly calculating professional like Jellicoe – or his adversary, Hipper.

They are more like Burmese in temperament than Siamese ; that is, less high-strung and demanding.

Martin had a famously high-strung and exuberant personality, and inevitably clashed with Monroe's equally stubborn temperament.

In New York the mambo was played in a high-strung, sophisticated way that had the Palladium Ballroom, the famous Broadway dance-hall, jumping.

On the other hand, Williams was temperamental, high-strung, and at times tactless.

Calhoun was " a high-strung man of ultra intellectual cast ,", and unlike Henry Clay or Andrew Jackson was not noted for charisma or charm ( except when dealing with women and children ).

Some biographers have suggested Mary was high-strung or emotional ; irrespective of such claims, reports from friends in the community where she grew up corroborate reports of her ability to heal at a young age.

Eldest daughter Carol ( Dinah Manoff ) was a neurotic and high-strung recent divorcée, while middle daughter Barbara ( Kristy McNichol ) was a tough undercover police officer.

His next project was another independent comedy, Flirting with Disaster ( 1996 ), about a neurotic man ( Ben Stiller ) who travels with his wife ( Patricia Arquette ) and a high-strung caseworker ( Téa Leoni ) to find his biological parents.

Summer and Smoke is set in Glorious Hill, Mississippi, from the " turn of the century through 1916 ," and centers on a high-strung, unmarried minister's daughter, Alma Winemiller, and the spiritual / sexual romance that nearly blossoms between her and the wild, undisciplined young doctor who grew up next door, John Buchanan, Jr. She, ineffably refined, identifies with the gothic cathedral, " reaching up to something beyond attainment "; her name, as Williams makes clear during the play, means " soul " in Spanish ; whereas Buchanan, doctor and sensualist, defies her with the soulless anatomy chart.

The team includes: Donald Crease, a former CIA officer and high-strung family man ; Darryl " Mother " Roskow, a conspiracy theorist with unsurpassed technical skills and dexterity ; Carl Arbogast, a young genius ; and Erwin " Whistler " Emory, a blind phone phreak with an acute sense of hearing.

* Murray ( Jeffrey Tambor ), Carter's high-strung producer, whose job often becomes a balancing act between supporting Carter's stories and pleasing Network 23's executives.

In August 2005, Moore guest-starred as Christine St. George, a high-strung host of a fictional TV show on three episodes of Fox sitcom That ' 70s Show.

Annette sends Orin to an anger management class where he meets Henry Wayne ( Tom Arnold ), the high-strung host of a local talk show called Detroit AM.

Biographer Mikhail Zetlin writes, " It is hard to say, nowadays, whether Balakirev's suspicions were fully justified or whether they were partly due to his own high-strung disposition.

Her character is " Amanda Reese, the high-strung and larger-than-life director behind a problem-plagued Broadway version of Icarus ", loosely modeled after Spider-Man director, Julie Taymor.

Eleven years after his film debut, Day-Lewis continued his film career with a small part in Gandhi ( 1982 ) as Colin, a street thug who bullies the title character, only to be immediately chastised by his high-strung mother.

Burt is a high-strung building contractor who later becomes sheriff and is under consideration for a run as lieutenant governor.

Between the demise of Fridays in 1982 and her return to a regular series in 1990 with Parker Lewis Can't Lose ( in which she co-starred for three seasons as the high-strung Principal Grace Musso ), Chartoff continued to work steadily on television throughout the 1980s, including appearances on Mr. Belvedere, Wiseguy, and St.

Knotts went on to star in a series of film comedies which drew on his high-strung persona from the TV series: he had a cameo appearance in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ), and starred in The Incredible Mr. Limpet ( 1964 ), The Ghost and Mr. Chicken ( 1966 ), The Reluctant Astronaut ( 1967 ), The Shakiest Gun in the West ( 1968 ), The Love God?

In 2009 and 2010, de Rossi played the high-strung, oversexual, and controlling Veronica Palmer on the ABC show Better Off Ted.

* (): Photon's spoiled, high-strung, flighty childhood friend, she has the ability to create stasis fields.

She can be a high-strung busybody, but for someone so smart, with men she loves, she can go into a mode where she is both babyish and overthinks little things.

When he was four years old, Artaud had a severe case of meningitis, which gave Artaud a nervous, irritable temperament throughout his adolescence.

A stable and serious temperament, neither nervous nor aggressive, is characteristic.

His greatest weakness was a fragile nervous system and erratic temperament, but when he maintained his concentration during a match, he could conjure up the most devastating tennis, being regarded as a tennis magician or an artist creating with great originality and panache.

Possessed of a fragile, nervous temperament, Mrs. McKinley broke down under the loss of her mother and two infant daughters within a short span of time.

The loss of sleep to a person of Newton's temperament, whose mind was never at rest, and at times so wholly engrossed in his scientific pursuits that he even neglected to take food, must necessarily have led to a very great deal of nervous excitability.

Black has a nervous temperament and often panics under pressure.

" In a description by Sparks, " His temperament was nervous and ardent, and his feelings strong.

Unlike most artists, he was neither nervous nor irritable in temperament.

Raised in a close-knit, cultured home in Fredonia, New York, Douglass was a small person with a nervous, active temperament inclined toward the practical and scientific.

The journalist was surprised when he found Elliott to be a mild man with a nervous temperament.

The one-year old Home was deemed a delicate child, having a " nervous temperament ", and was passed to Elizabeth's childless sister, Mary Cook.

His nervous temperament meant that he worried over small setbacks, and could not bear to watch close finishes.

Of too nervous a temperament to withstand the strain of the responsibilities of his position, he retired from public service in 1882, and lived henceforth mostly at Munich, where he died, suffocated by an accidental escape of gas into his bedchamber, in 1896.