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
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
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
His acts of piety and charity became grotesque in their excessiveness.
From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr
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