Now begins the winter of our resolutions, January's pinched rebuttal to December's wanton excess.
Meanwhile, the orthodox right has but one complaint about the news media -- namely, their wanton excess of liberalism.
As ever, those who can pay are blind to this wanton excess of destruction, so "Cameron has visited Cumbria" but, beyond a photo opportunity, will offer his usual sticking plaster to contain the floods.
From our perspective, on the far side of the modernists' break with prints, fringe, pelmets, rosettes and other embellishments intended for the viewer's visual amusement, the use of decorative flourishes implies a certain wanton excess, a sweet tooth run rampant in a candy store.
In the dream, the neighbors believed that my friend's parents were watering their garden day and night with the municipal supply, and were so enraged at this wanton excess that they staged a protest outside, screaming at guests through bullhorns as they arrived.
One of the signs in gaming before the floor falls out from beneath you is that of wanton excess.
On Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, the celebrations end with the burial of Juan Carnaval, the symbol of wanton excess and revelry, as the abstinence of Lent begins.
Wastefulness and wanton excess, however, are undesirable traits and frowned upon.
But despite Goldman's success or, perhaps, because of it, the bank has come to symbolize for many a return to wanton Wall Street excess.
Mr. Bloomberg's hourlong visit, first disclosed by the mayor's eponymous news agency, came as Goldman struggled to cope with an onslaught of negative publicity after a former executive's scathing Op-Ed article in The New York Times accused the firm of wanton greed and excess.
