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
Reduce brains to mush with sheer nonstop excessiveness of the movie’s sights and sounds.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2018
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
There are certain enormities in this man-of-war world that often secure impunity by their very excessiveness.
From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville
