Oddly, for a painter from such a poor country, there is a feeling of opulence and superabundance in his work, as people and objects balloon out to fill the painting space.When repeated by a grown-up interviewer Mr Botero greets the question about his trademark fat people with a roar of laughter: "That's the price you have to pay for being famous; people tend to oversimplify your work".
This chemical is a by-product of metabolism, and cells that are processing an excessive amount of energy for storage have a superabundance of it compared with the amount of a related molecule called NAD+.
Bach's music, he says, derives its power in part from its quality of superabundance; and its superabundance has now been compounded by recordings.Interest in Bach has waxed and waned since his death in 1750, and 60 years ago it was in a waning phase; the conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein said you "had to go to certain churches or special little concerts" if you wanted to hear his music.
As Andrew Pettegree, an expert on the Reformation at St Andrew's University, puts it in "Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion", "It was the superabundance, the cascade of titles, that created the impression of an overwhelming tide, an unstoppable movement of opinion…Pamphlets and their purchasers had together created the impression of irresistible force".
In his brutal phrase, everyone was "condemned" to be free.In the philosopher's superabundance of ideas, imagination did most of the work.
What to do about them has pre-occupied church leaders, since Thomas Aquinas in his 13th century tract "Summa Theologica" issued instructions that society should shoulder the burden of redistribution: "Whatever certain people have in superabundance is due, by natural law, to the purpose of succoring the poor".More controversial today is how generous a welfare state tax payers should support.
Some sectors are highly inefficient, with sky-high tariffs on rice and dairy products, a superabundance of elderly part-time farmers, and land laws limiting the size of farm plots.
Thanks to the seed planted by the three promoters, Montreal's residents now have a new problem: a superabundance of events to choose from each year.
These days, there seems to be a superabundance of people willing to die in order to commit murder: in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya and Russia, Pakistan, Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Amid flat sales figures for trade books and in the face of the rising use of gadgets born of technology iPods that download music and now films and a growing new interest in comic books for adults (so-called graphic novels), the good old-fashioned superabundance of American literature once again emerged in 2007.
The fusionable material boosts the fission explosion by supplying a superabundance of neutrons.
