Sentence examples for little surfeit from inspiring English sources

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I would watch an entire series telling the tale of how Belfast's hospitals went from boondock backwaters to global cutting-edge within about 25 tiny years, thanks only to a lovely little surfeit of bullet wounds.

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"Us" runs a little longer, but its surfeit of stuff — its cinephilia, bunnies of doom, sharp political detours and less-successful mythmaking — can make it feel unproductively cluttered.

A FRIEND and frequent dining companion often complains of palate fatigue, that deadening of all response when too many of a restaurant's dishes have too little nuance and a surfeit of the same bold — even bullying — notes.

Were dealers already referring to "amusing" pieces — furniture with little intrinsic worth but a surfeit of charm — before Syrie Maugham came on the scene?

Knocking a young band for not reinventing the wheel feels a little churlish, too, not least when a surfeit of experimentation has obvious pitfalls.

Instead, Mr. Warlikowski introduces a surfeit of extraneous action that has little if any bearing on the drama.

United's team has an unbalanced look as Van Gaal attempts to find places for what seems a surfeit of similar players - with little time to address this problem.

Sporting bodies who entangle their national teams in a surfeit of red tape tend to receive little sympathy.

"The Assembled Parties" displays the less desirable Greenbergian trait of biting off more than his play's elegant mouths can chew, with a surfeit of mysterious back stories and intricate, dirty little secrets.

This leaves Sandler, whose appeal has always been a mystery to me, as not much more than the lowest-hanging fruit pilfered from the Tree of Jerry Lewis (and none of the high-hanging Frank Tastuff-sthat stheFrench the French quite rightly admire); lots of sad little boy voices interspersed with violent temper tantrums, and a surfeit of suburban brattiness.

Were it semantically accurate, then the gig economy would represent a surfeit of fun, high-paying jobs that require little time.

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