Sentence examples for given to excesses from inspiring English sources

It is well-behaved and not given to excesses; above all, it keeps its tongue firmly in its cheek and not halfway down the leading lady's throat.

He is exceptionally polite, softly spoken, not given to excess or exaggeration; only occasionally does he raise his voice.

His self-confidence has never been in question, but he is not flamboyant or given to excess -- at least not for someone worth nearly $10 billion.

Mr. McAuliffe was given to his excess.

Academics too were given to this excess, as many an Oxford or Cambridge chapel shows.

Now Tredwell is a self-effacing man with an ecclesiastical air, not given to an excess of an emotion, but soon he was surrounded by adoring colleagues eager to embrace him.

In many instances NHS partners incur costs related to administration of the research processes of studies (service support costs) and/or to increase the throughput of patients or the level of care given to them (excess treatment costs).

And both politics and writing, in different ways, exist in part to assert human agency in the face of trends that seem inexorable and impersonal — to hold up ideals even when fewer people are living up to them, to try to shape and redirect trends rather than taking them as a given, to mitigate the excesses of revolutions and try to preserve the best of the old even when the new comes rushing in.

The verbal feedback always corresponded to real performance success or failure on the preceding trial (except on the few "trick" trials with equal number of dots on both sides, where a negative "LOST" feedback was given to reduce an excess of correct over incorrect trials).

In his youth Percy was reportedly "very wild more than ordinary, and much given to fighting", although his excesses were tempered somewhat by his conversion to Catholicism.

The adverbial excess given to Fiona as a defining mannerism ("generally usual", "wholly probably unspeakable") gradually spreads to other characters.