| Now, my legs can't manage cobbled streets, and my heart responds badly to a sudden and immoderate intake of alcohol. |
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| The dangers of immoderate wine consumption were fully recognized, and excess strictly forbidden. |
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| It was particularly impudent in the presence of women, and plainly showed its immoderate desires before them by an inexpressible lascivity. |
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| The beets were sliced on a mandoline and served in a Sherry vinaigrette with an immoderate amount of good olive oil. |
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| Now Collins defines the word as grossly offensive, violent or unrestrained behaviour, or extravagant or immoderate. |
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| Life and crime are games to these characters, and they vacillate between childish gaiety and immoderate violence. |
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| In more contemporary terms, an immoderate, rapacious industrialism consumes the consumer. |
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| The focus on public perception was timely and uncommonly sensible, leading to immoderate yahooing in certain loungerooms. |
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| This book, however, lives up to the occasional immoderate capitalization by its enthusiasts. |
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| This was in the notorious letter to Michelangelo, published in 1550, in which the writer roundly denounced the pagan profanity and immoderate artistic license of the painting. |
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| Like Pale Fire, Lolita begins with an immoderate conceit that allows its author and reader to explore the extravagant, pleasurable, and disturbing fringes of the language. |
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| Mindful of dehydration, the best-known effect of immoderate drinking, the volunteers always drank a glass of water before hitting the hay. |
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| While everyone has a need for water, this does not grant the right to have immoderate access to it. |
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| If it becomes immoderate, then peer-pressure within the EU can act as a check on the behaviour, and even the composition, of governments. |
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| This Lent, let us abstain from our often immoderate desire for material goods, so to offer our neighbour what he desperately needs. |
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| We also have to ensure that we do not mix the message with regard to what is moderate and what is immoderate drinking. |
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| Every Indian election brings with it a kind of itinerant circus full of immoderate speech. |
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| The new, immoderate Republican Party is therefore unlikely to succeed better in the near future than it has in the recent past. |
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| That hardly qualifies as an irrational act of an immoderate president. |
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| In the same way, inappropriate abstinence, immoderate and out of proportion, does harm to the fleshly body, for, not receiving the viridity of proper nourishment, it withers away. |
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| His stories are highly coloured and immoderate, both sweet and sour. |
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| Although William Beckford wrote a Gothick romance as reckless and immoderate as himself, his life of epic prodigality would arrest attention had he not written a single line. |
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| Unless you're an ultra-radical libertarian who thinks that ethical considerations should not be considered in regulating science, this is hardly an immoderate position. |
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| And also, as the book says, it's a polemic, meaning that it's going to be one-sided and immoderate, and basically just something provocative to start you thinking. |
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| She is refreshingly immoderate in her vision of what deep democracy might entail, and uses extreme examples from around the world to illustrate it. |
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| There are a number of causes for sports injuries, including faulty training methods, immoderate amount of exercise, bad physical conditions and even ill-fitted shoes. |
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| Remember the cause of this is blocking the qi of the spleen and stomach as a result of excessively cold or hot food and drink and immoderate and irregular eating habits. |
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| Though the air in this Canadian port may sometimes carry the fragrance of fish, the citizens themselves should not indulge in the immoderate use of scent, aftershave, hairspray or strong-smelling deodorant. |
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| The immoderate consumption of paper is one of the biggest threats to the future of forests worldwide and has a particularly adverse impact on the climate. |
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| This clause does not seem sufficient to guarantee that the donor has given consent in conditions of total freedom, and in particular that no immoderate pressure has been exerted. |
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| Although the immoderate language of groups like the Orange Order and individuals like Bishop Lloyd was not always supported, many of the fears they expressed were widely shared. |
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| Fourthly, as far as the size of the health warnings is concerned, we believe that the decisions taken by the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection are completely immoderate and so we reject them. |
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| While Lucifer, ambitious and arrogant, full of immoderate desires, was cast out of heaven, when falling from heaven, he chipped the corner of a star: which fragments rolled within space and were stopped by the earth. |
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| As the population becomes conscientised, they grow less and less sensitive to slogans of populist discourses and to the immoderate ambitions of programmes. |
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| Mr Reinfeldt has, of course, since decried such immoderate views. |
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| Particular Tory policies – on human rights, say, or on welfare – might have been immoderate, but Mr Cameron was always able to wrap them up, often pretty convincingly, in the language of pragmatic common sense. |
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| What have the immoderate Republicans of the Tea Party era accomplished? |
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| If Ryan Trecartin, the young American whose videos at P. S. 1 caused a sensation this summer, represents one pole of contemporary art filmmaking — loquacious, immoderate, bedazzling — Dean embodies the opposite extreme. |
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| Perhaps we should admit that our quest was an immoderate temptation, to which we succumbed with eagerness, as our predecessors did, and as those after us, we hope, will do as well. |
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| The immoderate crebrity of the pulse is a sign of a syncope. |
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