Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cusk says that despite the excess ofadvisers, she finds the existing sophomore programto be very satisfactory...
Indeed, "Germinal" real accomplishment is to show that naturalism doesn't translate well into film. When confined within a book, the excesses of naturalist imagery are effective, forcing each reader to envision even the most appalling sights. When overwhelming a movie, this excess--ceaselessly flogging the senses--deadens, and the audience emerges from the darkness of the film to the darkness outside stultified, not enlightened...
Israel expects to sign a four-year contract sometime next week that is rumored to include a signing bonus in excess...
...Coleman and Levitt give convincing performances and maximize the impact of each line of the script through careful attention to their tone and inflections in speech. Coleman manages to portray a seven-year-old princess, promiscuous teenager, and troubled, jaded socialite all in succession. Occassionally, she borders on emotional excess; for example, the repeated emphasis on her despicable stepfather's name seems overdone and jarring. But overall, her charged voice effectively reveals the joy, pain, and depression that Melissa experiences...
...guards and installing high-tech gizmos like tilt-and-zoom closed-circuit cameras or magnetic-card access systems. The current outlay is more than $22 billion each year, up 16% from 1990, according to Leading Edge Reports, a research firm based in Cleveland, Ohio. The figure is well in excess of the amount spent on the nation's police departments. By 1996 the expenditure is expected to soar another 35%, to nearly $31 billion...