Sentence examples for on a surfeit from inspiring English sources
Its chilling suggestion — appropriate to an era drowning in an excess of disparate images — is that even as you feast on a surfeit of lurid vignettes, you, the audience, will never know the whole story.
Henry I died in France in 1135 – famously, according to his physician, from gorging on "a surfeit of lampreys" – but his body was sent back for burial in the abbey he founded, stitched into a bull's hide.
One is that we spend an awful lot of time inside the heads of the two young protagonists, and there is the danger that we become bloated on a surfeit of agonising.
"Do I dare to whup ya with my love?" But as sure as we can imagine Pop cruising on a surfeit of indulgence, we also can't shake the sense that he's trapped inside it, inside the fun house, that indulgence has now become an addiction he can't escape.
Some were prone to nausea brought on by a surfeit of apocalypse.
In the Melbourne final against Maur- esmo, where she was suffering from stomach problems brought on by a surfeit of anti-inflammatory drugs, Henin had given up when 6-1, 2-0 down, thereby handing the French woman her first slam title but robbing her of the white-hot moment of triumph.
Late last month, the Department of Education said that several popular schools — Public Schools 6, 59 and 290 on the Upper East Side, and P.S. 87 on the Upper West Side — were putting children from their own zones on waiting lists because of a surfeit of applications.
Studies performed on the genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology of this disease to understand the pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus has led to the generation of a surfeit of data on candidate genes and related aspects.
With factories revolutionized, with shelves groaning under the weight of a surfeit of goods, stores for the first time let Americans buy on credit.
Now the architect behind the so-called "Walkie Scorchie" has claimed its design flaws are due to a surfeit of consultants on the £200m project, and launched an astounding attack on the architectural profession in Britain.
The event was not a success: the summer was exceptionally wet, making play difficult on damp uncovered pitches, and attendances were poor, attributed to a "surfeit of cricket".
