Watching his father's work, Mr. Aldridge had seen firsthand the successes and excesses of belief.
Instead of getting soaked in the cosmetics or the appliance aisle, here's a different kind of soaking everyone should consider: Wash your face, and your soul free of the lies, luxury and excess, the obnoxious belief systems we've let drive our decisions, our nature, our values.
Similarly, Dawkins' critique of Judaism seems way too aggressive, when one compares it to the excesses of other belief systems.
"Everything in excess" is our personal belief concerning Christmastime.
This Spanish side, two-thirds of it from the Barcelona school, follows that belief to excess, and to excellence.
The west's callousness and indifference towards Arafat has only encouraged Sharon's excesses and nourished his belief that he can act without sanction or restraint.
As in an Oscar Wilde story, the carefully contrived mask of callousness that Warhol wore has been exposed as a fraud, behind which lay shameful excesses of emotion and belief.
She is committed to the idea that the vast majority of people are looking for an opportunity to demonstrate their best selves, and that this is being thwarted by the depredations and excesses of government – a belief that surfaces not only in the Mole books, but also in more overtly political novels such as Number Ten and Queen Camilla.
The owner, Greg Anagnostopoulos, who is tall and slim, said he was motivated by a belief that consuming excess amounts of soda was dangerous.
The symptoms are compulsive building of excess capacity and a firm belief that no matter how far prices drop, if they only add even more capacity, things will be OK".
