Word: excessive
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...VEGAS Dolce & Gabbana's Mademoiselle chair ($950) by Kartell embodies Sin City excess and glamour, according to Unica Home shoppers...
...required to play three sports, and [Belmont Hill] is absurdly dominant in athletics,” says Fuller, who ran cross-country, wrestled, and rowed. “Part of the school’s philosophy is that boys will be boys, they have a lot of excess energy so let’s get them out onto the fields.”But he also notes that the school was diverse, and it was possible, if unusual, to break through the traditional macho-man mentality, and participate in other, less traditional, masculine pastimes—like the arts. Sumorwuo...
...There’s No Home for You Here.” And there’s really no good explanation here, either. None of the musicians involved have any obligatory relationship with the band and, furthermore, if this were merely a phoned-in affair, why the excess of material? At a disorienting fifty-five minutes, it’s nearly twice the length of the band’s debut, and longer than any Stripes album to date.There are redemptive exceptions here that save “Consolers of the Lonely” from true failure...
...Taliban, for all its draconian practices and human rights abuses, is also remembered for bringing order following the excesses of rival commanders in the country's civil war. Crime was punished - brutally and in excess, yes, but visibly and uniformly. If the Taliban and the insurgents can convincingly offer civilians a return to law and order, they will gain support. The Afghan government may realize that it's better to take a page from their book - tempered with human rights and due process - than to be defeated by an inability to crush corruption...
...injustice; if his generation is lucky enough to get the rules right for once, they should damn well be cemented so that later generations can't screw them up. "You have a disconcerting lack of faith in your fellow man," Jefferson chides. "And you," Adams retorts, "display a disturbing excess of faith in your fellow...