Sentence examples for great excess from inspiring English sources

Those who do drink often do so to great excess.

The locals drank mostly Bushmills whiskey and Guinness stout, and they drank them to great excess.

In the end, Beinart can't resist exhuming Icarus one last time — to great excess.

During this rehearsal period, synapses between nerve cells are generated in great excess, to be pruned back during later development.

"We're a country of great excess, in all things," Professor Lindholm said, "and the American shopper is very much into quantity and bargains and good deals".

Donal Henahan of The New York Times once referred to Mr. Zeffirelli's career as "one of the great excess stories of our time".

A great excess of potassium over sodium, uncommon in granite except as a consequence of hydrothermal alteration, is not uncommon in rhyolites.

"Far from recounting tales of great excess and debauchery, he told us of how his fondest memories of spending time with Hunter were nights in his kitchen reading passages of great literature to one another.

Waller also points out that his "hasty and overmastering temper led him into great excesses".

"One of the main characteristics of this system is that lack gravitates toward greater lack, excess toward greater excess.

For the sake of everyone else, they should be disabused before they venture into even greater excess.