Sentence examples for excesses of the second from inspiring English sources

Although the production is terrifically acted, and directed by Gary Griffin with care for its heated dynamics, there's little anyone can do to tame the excesses of the second act, which culminates in a full-out brawl that doesn't ring particularly true.

Pope Benedict's fast-tracking of his predecessor's beatification was, in part, an attempt to consolidate his conservative legacy – and create a bulwark against what both men saw as the excesses of the second Vatican council which revolutionised Catholicism in the 1960s.

In his chapter on "The Mysterious Power of Money," Lears quotes Mark Twain satirizing the excesses of the first Gilded Age: "Beautiful credit!

For those who like their holidays particularly tortured: A Higher Form of Killing by Diana Preston (Bloomsbury, £9.99) is a wonderful reflection on three excesses of the first world war.

It's easy to see why the excesses of the Third Reich appeal to speculative writers; the bizarre brutalities, thought-control exercises and sheer scale of Hitler's regime create a high-stakes landscape you really "couldn't make up".

The idea that this second pass is significantly more depraved suggests that we were supposed to find the excesses of the first pass tolerable.

Historically, the activity of each subunit for class Ia RNRs has been assayed independently in the presence of an excess of the second subunit due to weak subunit interactions.

The Km of 0.025 μM contrasts with values of ∼0.2 μM measured for the Ia RNR subunits, in which each subunit is assayed independently in the presence of a 5 10-fold excess of the second subunit to generate the "active" complex.

In the early 2000s the games that we were running were just at the excess of the first tech boom.

The USC is composed of a chairperson, vice-chairperson, 10 councilors, a representative for each college/school with less than 500 students, and an additional college representative for every 500 students in excess of the first 500.

Tests exhibiting inflated type I error under this scenario in excess of the first scenario can be considered as not appropriately accounting for locus length.