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

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

Geoffrey Malaterra, who outlined the Norman character many centuries ago with much psychological acuteness, insisted on the excessiveness of that gens effrenatissima, the tendency to unite opposite impulses, the taste for contradictory extremes.

From Impressions and Comments by Ellis, Havelock