immoderate

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Immoderate as the moderate Tarn Chau might have appeared, he could not hold a candle to Thich Tri Quang, the rebellious high priest of Hue.

From Time Magazine Archive

Immoderate and humorless as Marxian sectarian journalists, as human beings the Partisan Review editors are an eager, uneven, engaging crew.

From Time Magazine Archive

The same temperament, or it may have been a woman, made him early attach himself to the Immoderate Left of his Cause in the capacity of an experimenter in Social Relations.

From A Diversity of Creatures by Kipling, Rudyard

This is no more than I foretold: and well If his intemp’rance would stop here!—But this Immoderate indulgence must produce Some terrible misfortune in the end.

From The Comedies of Terence by Colman, George

CATO—Let us appear, not rash, nor diffident, Immoderate valour swells into a fault; And fear, admitted into public councils, Betray like treason.

From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by Moore, John Hamilton