Sentence examples for a time of excess from inspiring English sources

"But then people thought Mick Jagger was odd and it was a time of excess and oddity".

It was a time of excess, and the newly-minted millionaires and upper-middle-class burghers were always on the lookout for diversions.

Even if they took a low-frills approach, automakers left no doubt that their new vehicles are of crucial importance at a time of excess production capacity, shrinking demand and cutthroat competition.

Schreker's era was a time of excess and decadence as the old order fell apart, yet it witnessed remarkable musical achievements including the late symphonies of Mahler, Schönberg's ventures into atonality and a rich flowering of stylistically multifarious opera by composers such as, besides Schreker, Alban Berg, Alexander Zemlinsky and Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

So, considering Easter is supposed to be a time of excess after your successful observance of Lenten restraint, things are about to get pretty bloody austere if you're old, disabled, poor or out of work.

Tet is a time of excess, one does not enjoy Tet, one "eats" Tet.

THE 1980s were a time of general excess.

The concept album belongs to the late 1960s as a cultural phenomenon, a time of wilful excess in sound, thought and ego.

A time of definite excess, but I like to think everybody in that situation is probably going to go through that.

We grew up during a time of profligate excess and are coming of age just as the bill — one we neither contributed to nor deserve — is coming due.

HG If Saturday night at Glastonbury is meant to be a time of hedonism and excess, then James Blake clearly didn't get the memo.