surfeit

Thoughts on love, nature, trauma, aging, nostalgia and philosophy are all valid starting points, and a surfeit of possibilities can be paralyzing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 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

It would have been easy to collect a surfeit of recent creations that speak to tech’s promises and perils.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

As a businesswoman, a single mother and a highly sensitive human, Moore made it through life thanks to a surfeit of loving kindness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 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

At such a time, the little books of Marvell must have been considered as relishing morsels after such indigestible surfeits.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli

The burgesses of a Scottish borough are rendered, by their limited means of luxury, inaccessible to gout, surfeits, and all the comfortable chronic diseases which are attendant on wealth and indolence.

From The Surgeon's Daughter by Sir Walter Scott

No, the men of ease and idleness may have surfeits, the men of toil can only have banquets.

From Gaut Gurley by D. P. Thompson

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

The slogan was ready-made this year for Iowa and Illinois, surfeited with corn by farmers who "farm the Government."

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

But let such persons eschew all sour, sharp, doughy and slimy meats, long sleep after meat, surfeiting and drunkenness, and so much as they can, keep themselves from sorrow, grief, vexation and anxious care.

From The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy by Aristotle

No, my boys, depend upon it the real secret of enjoyment is to leave off when you have had enough; and nothing is more surfeiting, more cloying, than too much pleasure.

From Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home by George Manville Fenn

After surfeiting on romances whose scenes are laid abroad, it is delightful to come across a healthy home product like this.”

From The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It by R. W. Beers