This new era has brought a good deal of speculative excess, of course, as is the nature of Wall Street -- raw capitalism is not pretty.
Wren fused his vision of a grand baroque temple with theirs of an updated English medieval cathedral (free of Catholic excess, of course), and held the result together with a dome that is at once an engineering marvel and an utterly sublime design.
London has always had a flavor of excess, of course.
The archetype for vocal excess was, of course, Maria Callas.
Yet the excess weight, of course, was genuine, as was the poor upbringing, the drinking and the failure.
Fourth graders aren't actually dying from excess testing, of course, so you haven't read quite as much about these casualties as you have about the others, but there is no mistaking the shift in prospects and in mood.
Suffice to say, his son was either going to follow in his musical footsteps or become a strait-laced type who would dismiss the world of rock'n'roll as one of juvenile debauchery and attention-seeking excess - which of course it is, and that's why we love it so.
Counterintuitively, Rabbi Kook argues that even a force which may appear in any given time and place to be dominant is, in fact, corrupted and depleted by its own isolation and excess, which of course damages the greater whole.
This excess risk, of course, could also be compounded by the intervening periods of worsening control.
Of course, contemporary excess being as excessive as it is these days, it's not enough for Ms. Witherspoon's character to be heaped with roses and diamonds by her beau, who also happens to be the son of the mayor of New York (Candice Bergen).
