Word: excessive
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...Have a Dream" speech, which marshaled the mighty word as frequently as Bush did and was delivered, appropriately, at the opposite end of the Washington Mall in 1963. But ours is also a generation that has self-indulgently perverted King's call to freedom into a defense of excess, of freedom from responsibility. Our grandiose notion of ourselves was stoked by John F. Kennedy's crusading rhetoric and by Lyndon Johnson's foolishly literal attempts to turn Kennedy's idealism into action...
...It’s much better not to drink at all than to drink too much,” Stampfer said. According to Stampfer, there is evidence that even occasional excess drinking in young people can profoundly affect their cognitive health in later years and there is no evidence that they benefit from moderate drinking either...
Despite the health benefits of consuming a small quantity of alcohol each day, medical professionals are reluctant to prescribe alcohol as part of individuals’ diets, Grodstein said. She added that some people have an undiscovered predisposition to alcohol that could cause them to drink to excess...
Scientists have long debated whether exercise can counteract the effects of excess weight, which would make physical activity a more important risk inhibitor than body-mass index. Proponents of the “fat but fit” hypothesis say that body-mass index is too crude a measure because it ignores body composition and levels of fitness...
...other and this is what happens when you carry things to fundamentalist extremes. In Being Julia and Forever Callas, your character has to wrangle divas. Any advice on how to deal with them? I ride horses, and I know that if I have something I'm riding that has excess spirit, it is to be valued. I think divas are the same ... If they're difficult, it's because they care a lot and they're trying to do something extraordinary. I much prefer that to someone who is easy to work with but is only trying to jump...