excessiveness

Example Sentences

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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

My issue now is with the excessiveness I find in holidays and birthdays.

From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2022

Reduce brains to mush with sheer nonstop excessiveness of the movie’s sights and sounds.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 19, 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 West, Rebecca