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
When we are young, we make immoderate demands on those powers that steer existence.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2019
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
Moderate feeling is beneficial to the organism, immoderate feeling harmful; hence the appearance of the one as pleasure, and of the other as pain.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams
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