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

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

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

Geoffrey Malaterra, who outlined the Norman character many centuries ago with much psychological acuteness, insisted on the excessiveness of that gens effrenatissima, the tendency to unite opposite impulses, the taste for contradictory extremes.

From Impressions and Comments by Ellis, Havelock