Similarly, the "surfeit" seems to have been self-imposed: who forced Twain to read the novel multiple times if he knew he hated it?
You know, the pendulum swinging back and forth, the tide ebbing and flowing, voters opting for one political flavor and then, surfeited, returning to what they once rejected.
Kinshasa suffers from paralysing traffic jams, due not to a surfeit of cars but to the appalling state of the roads.
The fashions this time were as lavish as the production values and, if it required a surfeit of imagination to see how they might adapt to secular life, who says these brides of Christ, stripped bare and released for an evening of debauchery, wouldn't pair one of Browne's fur-and-gold-lamé jackets with, say, a pair of Zara leggings?
It cannot afford to indulge in leisurely exposition or use a surfeit of dialogue to explain things.
Having lived without democracy for 30 years, Afghans suddenly face a surfeit of it.According to the 2004 constitution, the country will go to the polls in 11 of the next 17 years, the result of holding presidential, parliamentary and provincial-council elections on different cycles.
This is similar to what we would see in today's environment of surfeit in contrast to the ethnic minorities born largely before 1945.
The quantitative change has begun to make a qualitative difference.This shift from information scarcity to surfeit has broad effects.
Having whisked egg whites to starch their habits, Portuguese nuns and monks employed the attendant surfeit of yolks to concoct rich, sugary conventual pastries.
Soutar insists his title, to be edited by ex-Nuts editor Phil Hilton, will be upmarket - a post-lads' mag title aimed at 18- to 35-year-olds 'with promising careers' and, by implication, a surfeit of cash to spend on clothes, gadgets and aftershave.
