Pent-Up

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–adjective 

confined; restrained; not vented or expressed; curbed: 

pent-up emotions; pent-up rage.  



—Synonyms 

repressed, suppressed, bottled-up.





　The talented thesps all work up a sweat portraying their characters' pent-up tension and anger, resulting in performances that are intense, overwrought and on the nose, with no surprises. Story is so single-mindedly about timidity (Dwight) and anger (Ethan) and nothing else that it quickly grows tiresome.





decorum prim demure pent-up

sedate

vial 

pour out vials of [wrath]

travail

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