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 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
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
If there was aught to be regretted it was the excessiveness of the zeal of the tenders of good offices.
From The Galley Slave's Ring or The Family of Lebrenn. A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 by Eug?ne Sue