overfraught

overfraught

(ˌəʊvəˈfrɔːt)
adj
too fraught
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All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled.
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The shipwreck in the opening scene, for example, could be read as a kind of over-literal satire of the Petrarchan image of the galley sinking under the weight of sighs and tears that is an early humanist cliche, an emblem of government's pinnace overfraught.
The Tempest and the discontents of humanism
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