excessiveness

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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

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

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

When in 1848 Ludwig Boerne was reproached by a political colleague with the excessiveness of his revolutionary zeal, he replied: "I was born a slave, and hence I love freedom better than you do."

From The myth of the Jewish menace in world affairs or, The truth about the forged protocols of the elders of Zion by Wolf, Lucien