Sentence examples for inordinate value from inspiring English sources

In his work he has tried to counter what he sees as a dismaying penchant among performers of the last 50 years for music-making that places an inordinate value on unity, flawlessness and the interpretive "straight line," as he calls it, rather than on range, spontaneity and the "sheer variety which overpowers and delights us, and which I embrace".

In every aspect of life, I witness parents placing inordinate value on labels, never more so than in elite private schools.

I feel like that person placed an inordinate amount of value on their time and less on ours.

An inordinate rise in housing values in the most highly scenic areas in 1990 2000 was associated with an exceptional slowing of migration to those areas in 2000 2005, an indication that housing supply constraints such as land use regulation may now be dampening the ties between landscape preferences and migration in rural areas.

The issuance of so inordinate an amount of public debt would crush the value of Japanese bonds.

Today, the inordinate amount of time spent on test preparation, in addition to having questionable value, has caused a serious narrowing of the curriculum.

Our goal is to find smaller values that lead to good quality chains, without taking an inordinate amount of time.

Why have we placed no value on being patient-centered in our current system, instead, choosing to accept the inordinate costs of invasive, highly aggressive organ-specific approaches removed from the patient's actual life and function in society?

Army officers still have inordinate influence in Taipei, evident from Taiwan's request to buy M-1 tanks, a weapon of dubious value in countering the Chinese missile, air and naval buildup near the strait.

"AN INORDINATE fondness for beetles".

It's an inordinate form".