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excessiveness



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With Jude, of course, vulgarity is often the point, and maybe, as two hours becomes three, the excessiveness is part of the point too.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 31, 2025

The artist, now 89, draws from the improvisatory impulses of jazz, the power of Abstract Expressionism, the eclectic excessiveness of assemblage and the academic classicism of Renaissance painting.

From New York Times Mar. 28, 2024

My issue now is with the excessiveness I find in holidays and birthdays.

From Washington Post Jul. 5, 2022

Reduce brains to mush with sheer nonstop excessiveness of the movie’s sights and sounds.

From Seattle Times Dec. 19, 2018

Martha rose from her seat to greet her, in the hearty Hawaiian way, arms about, lips on lips, faces eloquent and bodies no less eloquent with sincereness and frank excessiveness of emotion.

From On the Makaloa Mat by Jack London




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