Over-anxious

Fanny was confused, but it was the confusion of discontent; while Miss Crawford wondered she did not smile, and thought her over-anxious, or thought her odd, or thought her anything rather than insensible of pleasure in Henry’s attentions.

What over-anxious care for details!

In the case of the whippingboys, however, the closeness of the relationship was often given a somewhat negative interpretation by the teachers: The parents were over-anxious, ‘cottoned’ the boy, were overprotective.

It is so easy for over-anxious singers to squeak, to mispitch a note, or to forget the words, that the teacher must display absolute faith in his or her pupils’ ability to produce something of value.