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

Such excessiveness is not infrequently the cause of serious injury to the heart and lungs or to both.

From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by Moss, James A. (James Alfred)