Sentence examples for giddy excess from inspiring English sources

As the long boom of the 90's made giddy excess the norm, wise men convinced themselves that this time would be different.

In retrospect, all the things that seemed so exciting to its adherents – the giddy excess of information, the flattening of old hierarchies, the blending of signs with the body – have been made real by the internet.

-- Here, you wanna see my medals?" Unlike Al Gore and George Bush, who dole themselves out sparingly, the Arizona senator offered a giddy excess of access to the press contingent he dubbed "great ferrets of truth".

In "Telegraph Avenue," Michael Chabon's characters join with the giddy excess and unlikely rigor of his prose to mount a sort of meta-argument that we might bridge racial distance using the skills found in our bigger-hearted novelists — imaginative sympathy, attention to the hidden, particular sources of affection and resentment, a loving slowness to judge.

HEDGE funds, hedge funds, hedge funds," Richard David Story, the editor of Departures, the magazine for American Express premium cardholders, said before the Ferragamo show on Sunday when asked to account for the current mood in men's fashion and what looks like newly set markers for giddy excess.

Purim, the Jewish Feast of Esther, is celebrated with an atmosphere of exuberance, a joyous, boisterous mocking of tradition and decorum, when it is customary, on this one day only, to drink to giddy excess.

YEBES, Spain — It is a measure of Spain's giddy construction excesses that 250 row houses carpet a hill near this tiny rural village about an hour by car outside of Madrid.

Now 74, Ms. Frankenthaler remains true to the Color Field legacy, but the giddy, sensuous excesses of the past have given way to a more subdued and conservative mood.

The film's redeeming factor is its giddy sense of excess.

"Moulin Rouge!" deliberately carries its aesthetic of giddy pop-romantic excess over the top, blithely substituting spoken song lyrics for actual dialogue in a way that often sounds silly.

Carbone has a technical prowess that can make you giddy; a lust for excess that can, at times, make you a little queasy; and an instinct for sheer entertainment that makes a lot of other restaurants seem like earnest, unimaginative drones.