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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

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

Chan Chan suffered a palace surfeit because dead rulers were regarded as divine figures.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

Other people's surfeits of champagne and ortolans had assured his own taste for plain roast beef.

From The Letter of the Contract by Basil King

Others might and would consume themselves in fevers of avarice, and surfeits of luxury,—but for him such temporary pleasures were past.

From The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches by Marie Corelli

So, get thee gone, that I may know my grief; 'T is but surmis'd whiles thou art standing by, As one that surfeits thinking on a want.

From King Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare

As a theater critic surfeited with plays, radio dramas worked best for me as an unplanned diversion in my car.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2025

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

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

Whenever I am on the side of the Administration, I am surfeited with computer printouts that come within seconds to prove how right I am.

From Time Magazine Archive

That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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 cod increases its species most prodigiously, surfeiting itself upon hake, until the world is again menaced.

From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Charlotte Brewster Jordan

In the third place, I would have you know that surfeiting will invariably produce heavy, burning hands.

From The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies by An American Lady

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