immoderate

Example Sentences

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Ehrenreich records the medieval Christian church’s long battle to eradicate unruly, ecstatic or immoderate dancing from the congregation.

From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2020

When we are young, we make immoderate demands on those powers that steer existence.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 14, 2019

Meanwhile, Babylon took on the most immoderate overtones imaginable the night before in an extraordinary new Staatsoper Unter der Linden in Berlin production of Jörg Widmann’s “Babylon.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2019

MacCulloch paints a portrait of Cromwell as a brilliant individualist with a talent for making money, a head for languages, an immoderate love of books and many friends.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 10, 2018

E. L. This Note might have its Use sometimes, in the Cases of such delicate and hysterical, yet pregnant Women, as are apt to suffer from Bleeding, or any other Evacuation, though no ways immoderate.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)