excessiveness

Example Sentences

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This is after all a horror picture, and Stevenson layers on the horror tropes with a trowel, so much so that the movie descends into wretched excessiveness.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2024

But if discipline is not the top vocal note, rawness verging on excessiveness is a kind of authenticity in a show about raw, excessive youth.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2023

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

Such excessiveness is not infrequently the cause of serious injury to the heart and lungs or to both.

From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by Moss, James A. (James Alfred)