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With commentary and analysis, its members provided a tonic for much of the mainstream media's excesses.
Yet they help put the hedonistic excesses of the decade into proper perspective.
But it is a better book for not being a polemic against the excesses of the British in India.
After many years of searching, Siddhartha adopted the Middle Way, a place between the excesses of luxury and a life of poverty.
Media excesses or lapses are condoned by a public which reserves its ire for the political class.
We are perhaps inured to some of its excesses, but I don't think any Scot does not find it reprehensible.
But Lake Iseo has a certain unrestrained elegance too, without the frilly excesses of Stresa or Sirmione.
She advocates the control of the excesses of capitalism by regulation and government.
It was in this state of affairs that the police committed excesses which strictly speaking were impermissible in law.
It must stop exalting its own worst excesses and re-invent itself as a cultural organisation free of the taint of sectarian triumphalism.
A mind-set has emerged busying itself with quick fixes, stopping change or shoring up its excesses.
The family-owned auction firm has built its success on the excesses associated with economic fads and stock-market bubbles.
George's long-suffering wife cannot bring herself to curb her husband's excesses.
Naturally, I'll experience a twinge of envy as employed friends brag about their party excesses.
The check to expansion is sharp and is intensified by the excesses inevitably associated with periods of over-rapid expansion.
What was lost during the era was his expectation that ecologists within government would act as a check on the worst excesses of administrators.
Even allowing for these excesses, the most serious problem with the novella lies in its bloodthirsty ending.
This movie is more of a festival of excesses, where tone and temperament are identified and altered to confuse and bemuse the audience.
I regularly hear people both inside and outside the party complain about the power and excesses of factional chieftains.
The object has been to trim some of the excesses indulged in during the helter-skelter of Celtic tiger times.
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Examples from Classical Literature
At one end were the amoral characters whose excesses became steadily worse as the situation blackened.
The source of his misery was yonder, in those markets, heated by the day's excesses.
Every surface is teeming underneath with hidden meanings, obscure interpretations and exegetic excesses.
A place where one is permitted to continue one's vices, excesses and inanities for an eternity.
It is in the perfection of the stratocracy that we must look for the key to the excesses of the autocrat.
Often the ineptness, the feebleness, the insatiable cupidity and the excesses of the papacy.
Its exercise would probably be classed with kleptomania and other like excesses of purely personal consideration.
It disgusted the Romans beyond measure to witness the swinish excesses of the Germans.
He was equally far removed from the excesses of the legalist, the pietist, the ascetic, and the enthusiast.
The luddites, who commenced breaking up machinery in manufacturing towns in 1811, again committed great excesses.
Without transition, such persons have passed from the absurd excesses of slothful optimism to the vertigo of unplumbed pessimism.
And yet some people profess to be scandalised at the excesses of the unprivileged classes!
Rionga passed his hours in native excesses, in the joy of receiving the titular rank of vakil to the Khedive.
Such excesses in woman take on a more pathological character than in man, and go under the name of nymphomania.
They show no cannibalism, probably no totemism, certainly no orgiastic excesses.
His overjoy at obtaining liberty, after so long a struggle for it, led to his excesses and his ruin.
There was an occasion when it might have been supposed there would have been excesses.
I recalled the excesses of my last crossing, and I prepared for some vast hoax at the last moment.
Passion, and passion only, can plead a just excuse of its own excesses.
He grew peevish, suspicious, and more violent than ever in his excesses.
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