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

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

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

She is eminently devoid of excessiveness either in pose or in treatment, with the result that your eye is refreshingly cooled with the delicate process.

From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Hartley, Marsden