intemperance

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The intemperance of rebellion and the wisdom of experience — that’s the balance Green Day strikes on “Saviors,” the trio’s 14th studio LP.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2024

Some spats are sparked by the jealousy of older moderates; others by the intemperance of younger progressives.

From Salon • Aug. 6, 2019

As reformers made progress against ills like intemperance, they increasingly saw the moral blindness and cruelty of slavery as the greatest and most intractable obstacles to American improvement.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Instead, he turns the events into a comic scene about his own intemperance, which may also be true but is not as compelling.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2017

I was there—on the very rim of our age— when my mother’s cataclysmic intemperance, as you well know, catapulted me into the fever of contemporary existence.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole