amphetaminic

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But while there are moments of witty brilliance here and there, the film as a whole is too often awkward and overwritten, its tortured lines, written to be delivered at the amphetaminic pace of the best screwball farces, coming out slow and hesitant in the mouths of such definitively non-screwball actors as Helen Hunt and Woody himself.

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion Ed Howard 2009
Other tablemates include Tom Samper, a frosh-to-be at the College of New Jersey, who talks with an amphetaminic enthusiasm that would suit him well for a career in horse-race narration, and a few others whose names I donâ€ ™ t catch.

Harper's Magazine Wells Tower 2008
(That horn was a suitable shtick, but only a scrawny shadow of the eight-man brass section on Al Kooper’s amphetaminic version of “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry.”

Another Side of Bob Dylan: A Chorus of Inventive Covers 2006
(That horn was a suitable shtick, but only a scrawny shadow of the eight-man brass section on Al Kooper’s amphetaminic version of “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry.”

Another Side of Bob Dylan: A Chorus of Inventive Covers 2006