Sentence examples for surfeit of principles from inspiring English sources

Tom Coburn, the freshman senator from Oklahoma, could hardly be more unlike Mr Allen's tennis-playing rogue; he is a blunt-talking doctor who suffers from a surfeit of principles rather than a lack of them.

She is frank, assertive and simplistic, tending to present her lack of nuance as a surfeit of principle.

But would Western societies, including the United States, be betraying these same characteristics — obsession with celebrities (and especially their sex lives); blurring of the lines between news and entertainment; extreme self-indulgence (I am my Facebook Wall); a dearth of political principle and a surfeit of political attraction to money — without Murdoch?

The publication on the surfeit of children in Europe mainly focuses on the problem represented by the fact that the principle of actively searching for a minor who has disappeared from an institution is very rarely implemented, in contrast to the immediate search which is initiated when a national child disappears.

But a surfeit of awards may backfire.

The surfeit of odors made one giddy.

But there is a surfeit of villains.

And New York offered a surfeit of candidates.

J: "Due to a surfeit of bookishness.

Yorkshire had a surfeit of fast bowlers.

A surfeit of information hurts his head.