Had that also been a delusion of an overstressed mind?

The actual bills are being written by overstressed staff members working on two or three hours sleep a night.

When the Medical building is attacked, the overstressed window shatters.

Too much tension leads to overstressed spokes which have a short life.

The overstressed detectors hooted a final time, then were silent.

The overstressed female fitting may split days, weeks, or even years after initial installation.

The pressure to whip up a homemade dessert can put overstressed working moms over the top.

The doctor was right; if he wasn't careful, the whole setup could give way, like an overstressed motor.

These processes will attempt to increase the heart's output; however, the heart may become overstressed and eventually dysfunctional as a result.

This episode strongly criticizes the overstressed nature of stranger danger.

Smoke filled the cabin, and then Kirk heard the low moan of overstressed metal.

Orlando was finding it difficult to keep track of Fredericks' overstressed chattering.

The result is an overstressed ecosystem in which there are too many claimants for too little water.

When you're dealing with an overstressed structure, occasionally small, partial collapses happen."

She'd have to eat again, before long, and she hoped the churning of her overstressed stomach would subside by then.

Surprisingly, Katie is not shown in a negative light, but simply as an overstressed woman trying to cope with her extremely annoying husband.

Can overstressed families be far behind?

His writing is true realism, far removed from the overstressed, artificial prose that strives to make an "effect."

She did not want to be considered useless, but could sense Intensive's disapproval as though an odor from overstressed pores.

The voice was barely audible over the scream from the overstressed engine of the five-ton truck.

He could hear a high-pitched whine of overstressed servomotors.

This is not a team; it's a collection of overstressed individual baseball players, all in the same uniform, and paid by the same ownership.

It should sound as frayed and stretched as she felt, quivering like an overstressed cable.

If the structure or component is not strong enough, catastrophic failure can occur when the overstressed construction reaches a critical stress level.

There was a groan of tortured metal, a squeal of overstressed men.

We haven't been letting him exercise as much as he'd like; he always overstresses himself too soon after he's been hurt.

He overstresses the Truman administration's belief in intervention and unilateralism, playing down the importance it also attached to alliances.

Some writers, responding to his thesis, believe that he overstresses the power of reason and underestimates that of unpredictability and irrationality.

Mr. Dennehy does a good job of conveying Daly's shrewdness and essential decency, though the film overstresses his fatherliness with the younger men.

Ms. Sherrill perhaps overstresses Miranda's waiflike innocence, and Mr. Langella doesn't help by appearing to regard her love for Ferdinand as a silly indulgence.

THE third problem with the manual is that it actually overstresses winning "hearts and minds" - the political, economic, civic and other "soft power" tactics aimed at winning popular support.

The major critique of this theory is that it overstresses social barriers along racial and ethnic lines without providing adequate explanations for why many second generation immigrants overcome these barriers and experience socioeconomic mobility.

Mr. Reno, who also appeared in "La Femme Nikita" and Mr. Besson's "Subway," plays Leon with a soulful air that overstresses his superiority to a brutish world.