Sentence examples for desire of excess from inspiring English sources
A few executives and asset managers have begun collecting his work but as he says, "Most of my paintings are an explosion of color and demonstrate the desire of excess.
Tiffany fed that desire for excess, first as a decorator and later as the designer and maker of fabulously exotic, extravagantly decorative glass windows and lamps.
It has permeated everyday life, to the point where we talk easily of food porn, disaster porn, war porn, real-estate porn — not because culture has been sexualized, or sex pornified, but because porn's patterns of excess, fantasy, desire, and shame are so familiar.
Liposuction best serves the patient who has mastered the caloric equation and has achieved a desired weight but is left with focal areas of excess fat.
All the elements of the rap culture appear in his music: the competitive machismo, the need to break away from backstabbers, the heated sexual desires, the excess of drugs and alcohol.
For Bataille, human beings were beings of excess with exorbitant energy, fantasies, drives, needs, and heterogeneous desire.
Why? Part of the answer surely lies in the widespread desire to see economics as a morality play, to make it a tale of excess and its consequences.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, and those who restrain their desires do so because their desires are feeble enough to be restrained.
calls a malnutrition "of excess".
