excessiveness
Example Sentences
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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 actors all seem to be having fun, especially Keung as the roguish Skunk, but the best part is the way the movie enthusiastically wallows in the excessiveness of the action.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2022
My issue now is with the excessiveness I find in holidays and birthdays.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2022
Its crazy excessiveness wasn’t a 1970s-era lapse in taste; like the horned headdress of Wagner’s Brünnhilde, it was the whole point.
From Time ● Dec. 27, 2016
She is eminently devoid of excessiveness either in pose or in treatment, with the result that your eye is refreshingly cooled with the delicate process.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley
