Sentence examples for excesses of language from inspiring English sources
He has curbed his excesses of language and restricted his wanderings off the approved party script.
When a play taps into the public's collective dreaming, problems of structure, excesses of language, and vagaries of casting can be all but obscured by the power of its spell.
Gay can slip into purple excesses of language now and then — if I could, I would wave one of those "Men in Black" wands and erase the phrase "shimmering labia" from my brain — but he can also score a direct hit when he wants to.
That's his gift -- that he doesn't fill his vocabulary with an excess of language.
The creation of an imaginary character is related, I believe, to the explosion of linguistic abilities that occurs between the ages of two and four, and rapidly creates an excess of language, which the child may not have enough experience to match.
Politicians who could no longer get away with using the vilest excesses of racial language communicated in coded but comfortable phrases like "law and order" and the "intrusive federal government".
These writings, in the words of Henry Cadbury, Professor of Divinity at Harvard University and a leading Quaker, "contain a few fresh phrases of his own, [but] are generally characterized by an excess of scriptural language and today they seem dull and repetitious".
On excess Adam Phillips's misuse of language suggests muddled thinking, and undermines his argument ("Insatiable creatures", 8 August).
Quality is beside the point — this type of content is about the quantity of language that surrounds us, and about how difficult it is to render meaning from such excesses.
The knowledge of most of the individual languages of Africa is still very incomplete, but there are known to be in excess of 1,500 distinct languages.
Sharing outside of language.
