immoderate

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And, anyway, isn’t it a relief to talk about a 40-year-old composer with the immoderate enthusiasm we generally reserve for the pillars of the classical canon?

From New York Times • Jan. 1, 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

Meanwhile, Babylon took on the most immoderate overtones imaginable the night before in an extraordinary new Staatsoper Unter der Linden in Berlin production of Jörg Widmann’s “Babylon.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 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

He was somewhat immoderate and exces235siue, as well in aduancing those he fauoured, as in beating downe and disabling his enemies.

From The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by Hayward, John