Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diamonds, romances, affairs, riots and more adorned her every step. We knew all about it. Time, Newsweek, People, CBS, The National Enquirer and The New York Times had told us so. We listened to the vulgar details for the same reason we watched her on the screen. She is excess. She exploits extremes of love and hate and self-adornment. She articulates those feelings inside us and pushes them to their extremes. Intensity: we love it and we need it. And that need, vicarious or otherwise, is very real. Without the Elizabeth Taylor in us life certainly would...
Finally, the night passes, and in a kind of coda the old gaffer's kin arrive at his chateau to help him celebrate his birthday. One now sees the raw material he has been working with. If none of his family has genius, or even an excess of individuality, they all appear to be rather pleasant people, undeserving of the imaginary treatment they have received. The audience is left once again -and once too often-to speculate on the gap between reality and illusionary art, and on the widely alleged necessity for the artist to behave inhumanely. These gaseous...
Huntington also has complained recently of a "democratic distemper" in the U.S. According to him, marginally enforced enfranchised groups are gaining power in the American political system and creating an "excess of democracy...
...roughly enough water to flush a toilet seven times or take a five-minute shower. The cost, moreover, will nearly triple, from 46? per 100 cu. ft. (748 gal.) to $1.22. Anyone who exceeds the ration will be billed a punishing $10 to $50 per cu. ft. for the excess...
...drown out the sounds of pain, to keep everyone at a distance from his precious, empty self. It is a perversion of language's basic function, almost a parody of it, and a clear and present danger of literacy, which, like any virtue, can be carried to excess. It is wise of Gray to note the phenomenon, kindly of him to bring it to our attention in such an often hilarious manner, supremely witty of him to make a play that will most appeal to people of the sort he has so wickedly satirized - the pridefully literate...