Sentence examples for excess feast from inspiring English sources

These changes may underlie the intrinsic resistance of these parasite stages to many stresses (temperature, pH) and their tolerance of both nutrient limitation and nutrient excess (feast and famine) in this intracellular niche.

While royalty lived in excess, feasting on roasts and rich confections, Parisians were starving.

Having taken a serious shine to Mo, she becomes determined to introduce her mousy Brit friend to the groaning pleasures of excess, where a feast is a zillion times better than "enough".

So what better place to watch this feast of excess than in the city that has elevated excess to an artform: Las Vegas.

For Americans, Christmas has often been a feast of excess in an age of abundance and optimism.

There's "Edible Excess: 19th Century Victorian Feasting," a museum exhibit debunking the myth that binge eating was invented in the Lambeau parking lot.

In fact, it is a marvellous visual feast of pantomimic excess, a portrait of a little man who is so ludicrously burdened by the visual trappings of kingship that he might as well be carrying a pregnant donkey across his back.

Rather, they are celebratory fantasies of sexual excess, with titles like "The love feast, or the bride's experience," that invoke images of a greedy, gluttonous body.

Its chilling suggestion — appropriate to an era drowning in an excess of disparate images — is that even as you feast on a surfeit of lurid vignettes, you, the audience, will never know the whole story.

There was an enormous gothic feast in a candlelit dining hall, which matched Hogwarts for its elaborate excess.

But Purim is also characterized by a boisterous feast (se'udah) during which participants dress in costumes and drink to excess.