Word: excessive
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Leibovitz was a man of irony and rhetorical excess. A devoted Orthodox Jew, he relentlessly campaigned for the separation of synagogue and state. A witness to the unspeakable horrors of Nazi Germany, Leibovitz infuriated the Israeli public by referring to Israeli soldiers as "Judeo-Nazis...
...results were excellent because the people really know what they are doing," Light said. "Any positive growth compares favorable to just about everybody and is well in excess of the averages of other institutions...
Harvard organizations with annual budgets in excess of a certain amount, perhaps those with budgets over $10,000, should have their financial matters looked into each year by an outside auditor...
...third solo part and cadenza. Kremer showed a pair of weaknesses. His violent charging at his violin with the bow occasionally gave his notes unsteady attacks. If the problem was due to excess energy, it's excusable: few violinists have so able a bow arm as Oistrakh had. In addition, Kremer's tone seemed to run sharp now and then. Perhaps he was rattled by losing a string from his bow during the lick...
...also a bit much. In its grandiloquent excess, Baseball reflects the sport's increasingly hallowed status in American life. Somewhere along the road from Cap Anson to Rickey Henderson, baseball ceased being merely a game; it became a poem. Grubby, declasse sports like football and basketball might draw more crowds and more national TV coverage, but for truly discriminating fans -- the ones with Ivy League degrees who never sit in the bleachers -- baseball became the sport supreme. It's the one with the perfect, immutable dimensions and no clock to artificially limit the action; the one that values finesse...