Word: excessive
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...toss in the sugar, ensuring that your hooch will have a high alcohol content. Now it’s time to wait for your juice cocktail to bloom into a festering alcoholic abomination. Store the bag in a warm place, opening it once a day to let off excess gas. Do not be alarmed by any nauseating fumes, (we promise, these are an entirely natural part of the process). After six days of nurturing, the rotgut should reach maturity. It’s then time to finalize the process. Open the bag and scoop out the unrecognizable, mold-laced remnants...
producing a condition known as hyponatremia. The result: excess fluid is sucked from the bloodstream into cells--including brain cells--making them swell. Pressure grows inside the skull, and that can lead to permanent damage, even death...
...national haul. Some of the meat is consumed by humans. (No, it doesn't taste like chicken. Think gamier, chewier beef.) Some is used in pet food or animal feed. But much of it ends up frozen in the national whale-meat inventory, which contains thousands of tons of excess food...
Once you’re there, the sights that strike you are the 100 franchises of Kentucky Fried Chicken and views of freeways lined with alternating neon lights. Sustained economic development has conferred upon Shanghai’s urban planners and real estate developers a taste for excess that makes you forget large swaths of the country are still without electricity...
...most impressive sight of awesome excess was in Suzhou, a neighboring, “medium-sized” city of six million people (Suzhou is one of over 60 Chinese cities with more than a million people). On a lake in a hyper-modern downtown district built entirely in the last few years, the city hosts a weekly display of pyrotechnics and choreographed water-technics that puts the Bellagio in Las Vegas to shame...