immoderate

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The Polish operatic actress Helena Modjeska founded a 19th-century utopian colony in Anaheim, but it foundered, in no small part because of immoderate weather, like the wind.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2021

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

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

She inveighed against “too frequent resort to separate opinions and the immoderate tone of statements.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2018

Occasionally, at the beginning of the new friendship, Norah was assailed by doubts about this, which intensified her prejudice against blue eyes, not to mention excessive slimness and immoderate length of neck.

From The Vanity Girl by MacKenzie, Compton