excessiveness
Example Sentences
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This is after all a horror picture, and Stevenson layers on the horror tropes with a trowel, so much so that the movie descends into wretched excessiveness.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
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
Some big institutions have turned increasingly negative on executive pay packages, especially those with the red flags of excessiveness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
Now, turning something up to 11 can mean any type of excessiveness, and references have popped up continuously since then, including in “Doctor Who” and the volume control on the Tesla Model S.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2018
If she let his inherited excessiveness learn this he would go mad; and he would hate her for not reading these signs when they had been given her.
From The Judge by Rebecca West
