excessiveness

Example Sentences

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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

The actors all seem to be having fun, especially Keung as the roguish Skunk, but the best part is the way the movie enthusiastically wallows in the excessiveness of the action.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2022

My issue now is with the excessiveness I find in holidays and birthdays.

From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2022

Its crazy excessiveness wasn’t a 1970s-era lapse in taste; like the horned headdress of Wagner’s Brünnhilde, it was the whole point.

From Time • Dec. 27, 2016

She is eminently devoid of excessiveness either in pose or in treatment, with the result that your eye is refreshingly cooled with the delicate process.

From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Hartley, Marsden