intemperance

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The intemperance of rebellion and the wisdom of experience — that’s the balance Green Day strikes on “Saviors,” the trio’s 14th studio LP.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2024

As evidence of Mr. Kitman’s prodigious research into Washington’s intemperance, he cited a mention that the general had gained 28 pounds during the war, which lasted more than seven years.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2023

And intemperance is the order of the day.

From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2022

Some spats are sparked by the jealousy of older moderates; others by the intemperance of younger progressives.

From Salon • Aug. 6, 2019

I was there—on the very rim of our age— when my mother’s cataclysmic intemperance, as you well know, catapulted me into the fever of contemporary existence.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole