"Orfeo ed Euridice" is known as a reform opera -- which is to say that Christoph Willibald Gluck, writing it in 1762, was trying to do away with the excesses of contemporary operatic practice.
The views on Ciceronianism with which Scaliger countered Erasmus, however, are considered narrow and shortsighted; Scaliger largely misunderstood the purpose of Erasmus' ridicule of the stylistic excesses of contemporary Ciceronians.
His way of writing about low life in a high style - in novels such as Success, Money and London Fields - his blokey banter and ironic fascination with pornography and the worst excesses of contemporary junk culture meant that, for better or worse, he was the novelist most widely imitated, in style and voice, by any number of younger writers.
Thinking globally, the MC turns his withering gaze on the tragic excesses of the contemporary Madchester phenomenon: "Extasy [sic] / Acid / PCP / Crack / Can leave you cold and breathless / Laying on yo' back".
So are the extremes to which Kincaid takes his insistence that madness comes from the excess of images that contemporary society drums into us.
David Stubbs said that, where punk rock had been a rebellion against a time of deficit and poverty, OK Computer protested the "mechanistic convenience" of contemporary surplus and excess.
It is a showcase of the excesses, both good and bad, of contemporary architecture, ranging from the astonishing soaring concrete planes of one company HQ to a bizarre building known, for good reason, as the washing machine which, in turn, houses another.
I do find them a weight.' Britain leapt to the forefront of contemporary art in the Nineties with excess and drama.
Gracefully poised in person, she did not shy in print from comparing the worst of contemporary American architecture to the totalitarian excesses of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin.
Support for the Ambush Hypothesis has relied on two methods to evaluate the excesses of OSCs in contemporary genomes.
