immoderation

Example Sentences

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Self-deprivation could, after all, be rebranded as a form of vanity, of narcissism, of immoderation — taking more than one’s due by another script.

From New York Times

A symbol of American abundance and immoderation, it is perhaps the original cultural appropriation: Those Pilgrims who made it through the winter of 1621 owed a debt to Wampanoag maize.

From Washington Post

The menu, written only on chalkboards, in French, is defined by exuberant immoderation, a blend of the haute and the gluttonous.

From The New Yorker

And it is a tale of a political party — the United Malays National Organization, which Mr. Najib led — that teethed on graft and patronage and collapsed under the weight of its own immoderation.

From New York Times

You may wish, at times, for a dash of immoderation, but the show’s deceptively gentle approach is also what makes it stand apart in our angry times.

From New York Times