His search for new philosophical perspectives has won him a loyal global audience, but also criticism for his excessive irony, word play, and intellectual games.
That was a considerable gain for the tobacco lobby, because the use of the word "excessive" made the warning imply that normal smoking wasn't dangerous to health which was not what the Surgeon General's report had said.
Through further amendments, they obtained the elimination of the word "excessive," and they also managed to have reduced by one year the period during which the F.T.C. was forbidden to require a health warning in all cigarette advertising.
He puts his earlier struggle down to two words: "excessive choice".
It was important that Mr. Obama transcend the debate about whose partisanship has been excessive and whose words have sown the most division and dread.
Daniel Craig's passionate scenes with Lea Seydoux and Monica Bellucci were dubbed "too excessive", while the words f**k and a**hole have also been banned.
Japan's public broadcaster, NHK, is in a spot of toraburu with a disgruntled viewer who has filed a damages lawsuit against the company for the "mental distress" caused by its excessive use of words derived from English.
But when one of his Chinese Ph.D. students really slowed down in her Ph.D. defense, she found that "not only did the presentation improve, [but] the amount of data fit in very easily because she didn't spend such an excessive amount of words just blabbering along and delivering points that didn't need to be delivered," Anholt says.
It will surprise no one to learn that those with symptoms of depression use an excessive amount of words conveying negative emotions, specifically negative adjectives and adverbs such as "lonely", "sad" or "miserable".
In other words, excessive growth is a driving force for aging.
