excessiveness

Example Sentences

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With Jude, of course, vulgarity is often the point, and maybe, as two hours becomes three, the excessiveness is part of the point too.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025

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

Reduce brains to mush with sheer nonstop excessiveness of the movie’s sights and sounds.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 19, 2018

Martha rose from her seat to greet her, in the hearty Hawaiian way, arms about, lips on lips, faces eloquent and bodies no less eloquent with sincereness and frank excessiveness of emotion.

From On the Makaloa Mat by London, Jack