Sentence examples for excessive thing from inspiring English sources

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Although it sounds a pretty excessive thing to do, when contemplating the horror and suffering that runaway climate change might bring (like, er, mass starvation and the half the species on Earth getting wiped out), protests of this sort seem logical to me.

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The personalities that are prone to do excessive things are emboldened by the conduct of others".

"Excessive things were done that have cast a shadow over all of us".

Some 44% of voters agreed with the statement that the Lib Dems had prevented some of the excessive things that a Conservative administration would have done on its own, while 24% disagreed.

David A. Kaplan, who wrote a biography of Mr. Perkins titled "Mine's Bigger: The Extraordinary Tale of the World's Greatest Sailboat and the Silicon Valley Tycoon Who Built It" (2007), said in an interview on Thursday that Mr. Perkins's "legacy won't be helped by all the excessive things he said in recent years and the grudges he nursed," though he was a "seminal figure" for Silicon Valley.

"We have some excessive things," she said.

Household debt in particular surged, then was suddenly perceived as excessive: The crucial thing from a macroeconomic point of view is that leveraging and deleveraging are not symmetric in their effects.

For one thing, excessive drinking disrupts normal sleep patterns and can leave you exhausted, and a sleep-deprived brain is less adept at shutting down anxiety and other negative thoughts, Koob says.

Lover of luxury and all things gourmet, Marcus Gavius Apicius was a wealthy member of Roman high society who lived and breathed all things excessive.

It's his way of being excessive in all things".

Elvis's taste in clothes was - as with all things - excessive.

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