surfeited

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.

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.

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.

Its tone can be wry and sometimes even mildly Wodehousean — a cigar store is kept by a man named Freshmayer, “who looked upon the earth as a sterile promontory” — but occasionally ascends to the floridly Poesque: In “The Furnished Room” — which mixes a naturalist description of Manhattan rooming house life with a ghost story and conte cruel — a housekeeper resembles “an unwholesome, surfeited worm that had eaten its nut to a hollow shell and now sought to fill the vacancy with edible lodgers.”

I don’t know about you but I feel surfeited with stories at the moment.