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It's a ridiculous image, openly laughable, yet it's the kind of outrageous, excessive flourish that can make Mr. Scott's work so enjoyable in the moment.
In the early 1400s, councilors to Charles VII warned, "among all the inhabited nations of the earth none is so deformed, variable, outrageous, excessive and inconstant in its garments and dress as the French nation".
"It is an absolutely outrageous, excessive, ridiculous package to pay anyone," Ms. Davy said, adding that the department would also be issuing guidelines for school boards negotiating management contracts on "what is and what isn't acceptable".
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Paddy Ashdown accused the former Yugoslav president of using "outrageous and excessive force" in Kosovo.
University officials had excoriated the agency for imposing the suspension last Thursday, calling that decision outrageous and excessive.
But Rupert Goold, as is his wont, goes for broke by transporting it wholesale to modern Las Vegas, where showbiz fantasy meets speculative capitalism; and the result is, by turns, brilliant, outrageous and excessive.
Paddy Ashdown, a former member of the British Parliament, sparred for hours with Mr. Milosevic on Thursday and Friday, accusing him of using "outrageous and excessive force" as his forces looted, burned and shelled villages in Kosovo in 1998 and forced the surviving inhabitants to flee.
Codes of sexual harassment imagine an entirely symmetrical universe, where people are never outrageous, rude, awkward, excessive or confused, where sexual interest is always absent or reciprocated, in other words a universe that does not entirely resemble our own.
"But none of this justifies or excuses the use of excessive outrageous force by your armed forces, under your control, in an indiscriminate punitive manner, across the whole civilian population," Lord Ashdown said.
What we said: Nocturnal Animals delivers a double shot of horror and Nabokovian despair: it's excessive, outrageous, a story within a story about the super-rich and super-poor.
It's lavish, excessive, outrageous, and scandalous.
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