Sentence examples for excessive is from inspiring English sources

Excessive is relative, however.

And the European Commission is working on a response to the Eurogroup's complaint.How excessive is bosses' pay in Europe?

Description that is intentionally inapt, unsettling, or excessive is as old as Homer, whose similes, veering off in wild and unexpected tangents, Oswald reproduced brilliantly in "Memorial".

These adverse trends reinforce each other, increasing the overall drag on growth.Figuring out the point at which debt becomes excessive is not an exact science.

"Too excessive" is, of course, redundant; a worse flaw than verbosity is poeticism, like: "It was a time when desire, more arousingly than ever, must have draped its glossy ­peacock-feathered cloak across this town".

Whether ad bugs are embraced or declared excessive is to be determined by executives at UPN, which is best-known for wrestling programs and "Star Trek" sequel series and has high hopes for the 2001-02 seafterafter wooing a popular show, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" from WB.

He might think putting a cap on housing benefit sensible because some payments (£100,000 a year?) seem excessive, are excessive.

That kind of fear -- whether well founded or excessive -- is the product of a tangled mix of circumstance and public policy.

His stroke of genius - and, given the extraordinary late blooming of an already illustrious career with American Pastoral, I Married a Communist and The Human Stain, the word genius doesn't seem excessive - is to bed his little fantasy in the rich soil of his own childhood in Newark, New Jersey, and watch it grow.

Having excessive castor is puzzling.

Our excessive optimism is exposed.