surfeit

Binoche plays Amanda with a surfeit of tenderness for her mother, who goes from being lucid to infantile without warning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

There's not exactly a surfeit of available and convincing candidates and Clarke is a proven operator who has become a serial qualifier for major tournaments.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

But this spring holds a surfeit of Scripture-inspired scripted alternatives.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2026

“What happened to the peace dividend?” economist Augusto Lopez-Claros asked last year, referring to the supposed surfeit of funds that was to flow after the end of the Cold War.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

From someone who had no place in the world, she had suddenly become someone with a surfeit of places.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

The company built pellet plants across the southern U.S., moving into parts of the pinery where pulp and paper mills had closed and left behind surfeits of sawdust, wood chips and cheap pulpwood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Increasingly in the '80s, Halloween has become an escapist extravaganza for adults, a trickless treat that more closely resembles Mardi Gras than the candy-and-apple surfeits of yesteryear.

From Time Magazine Archive

Says Caesar, If Antony followed his debaucheries at a time of leisure, I should leave him to be punished by their natural consequences, by surfeits and dry bones.

From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Arthur Sherbo

Not that I have beaten you, but beaten one that will be beaten: one whose dull bodie will require launcing: As surfeits doe the diet, spring and full.

From A King, and No King by John Fletcher

Sooner or later love, which is loose, surfeits and sours.

From The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by John Trotwood Moore

Theatergoers, surfeited with entertainment options at home, have been less inclined to commit to season subscriptions, placing more pressure on programming to come up with sure-fire hits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2023

You’d think those of us who are keeping tabs might be surfeited by now, but a true theater lover can never have too much Sondheim.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2023

At this point, I'm so surfeited on natural spectacles, it's faintly disappointing not to see a troupe of all these things executing Busby Berkeley maneuvers for my personal delectation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2013

Their move back to the land is a heartening quest, honored both by a long pioneering tradition and the envy of countless city dwellers surfeited with subways and smog.

From Time Magazine Archive

The anger will not hold; the puppy is too easily surfeited.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

What the Valentine's cards forget is that the lovesick duke who speaks the words wants to overeat so that "surfeiting/ The appetite may sicken, and so die."

From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2013

They were easier to swallow because they lacked liver's surfeiting taste, and a dessertspoonful in water or tomato juice once a day was sufficient for health.

From Time Magazine Archive

The air was surfeiting with the steam of food.

From Montlivet by Alice Prescott Smith

Our hearts may be “overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.”

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett

He had always been bitterly contemptuous of the men that, surfeiting their appetites, showed at the impotent last a cheap repentance.

From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer