Word: surfeited
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Instead, the surfeit of tragedy becomes...
...reference book; it allows them to teach rather than just enumerate points. The pages explaining underlying biological systems connect the details of any given molecule to the big picture of a medical condition.A section on immunology manages to be not only informative but also strikingly clear despite the surfeit of names and medical jargon necessarily associated with the field. The authors, chemists all, have enough of an outsider’s perspective on biology to strike an appropriate balance between providing useful technical vocabulary and dumping a list of Latin on the reader, and they do so without sacrificing their...
...would expect from that résumé, he writes like an academic - but that's not to say the book is bloodless. Patel has a highly developed historical sense of why we eat as we do, and if readers who have enough food understand how that surfeit originated, the more likely they are, he hopes, to make decisions that help others who go hungry...
...There’s a downside to this surfeit of temerity, however. When minority groups have their religious and cultural identities sidelined by policies geared at preserving laïcité, the result can be paradoxical; a retreat into the very ethnic and religious communities that French politicians so fear. Defenders of the headscarf ban are quick to point to private parochial schools as alternatives for those pupils who are unable to comply for religious reasons. But marginalizing into separate schools the very individuals to whom the Republic ought to reach out the most might not be such a good...
...Today, Democrats find themselves in an unusual situation, with a surfeit of faith-friendly front runners. If they want to court and keep new religious voters, however, this time the conversion will have to be party-wide...