16 Metaphors for excesses

I hope Mr. ASQUITH was justified in assuming that the Sinn Fein excesses were only an expression of the "rhetorical and contingent belligerency" always present in Ireland, and that in spite of them the Convention would make all things right.

Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature,' i. 453. SHIFT.

Until man shall have become infinite in wisdom, as well as immaculate in purity, he will continue to indulge, to a greater or less extent, in excesses of some sort, and those excesses will always be an overmatch, when superadded to the natural law of decay, for the recuperative efforts of science.

And we fell silent, for indeed the excesses of the officers of the line was a sore subject with all of us.

Some warm excesses which the law forbore, Were construed youth that purged by boiling o'er; And Amnon's murder by a specious name, Was call'd a just revenge for injured fame.

Accordingly, excess of good fortune and unrestrained indulgence were the ruin of men whom no severity of distress had subdued; and so much the more completely, in proportion to the avidity with which they plunged into pleasures to which they were unaccustomed.

The very excess of its violence is the cause of its weakening.

I ventured a guess that the construction of the lock type of canal would approach $300,000,000, and without stopping to consider that the same causes which led to an increase in cost over the original estimates for the lock canal must affect equally the sea-level type, the advocates of the latter argued that the excess of the new estimates was an additional reason why the lock type should be abandoned in favor of the sea-level canal.

In popular opinion an excess of exports of merchandise is an index, if not the real cause, of national prosperity; but evidently it is no true index whatever on this point.

The excesses of the world are a much more fruitful source of disease and death than the attritions of age.

Excess of light was the most obvious suggestion; and so it was supposed that its exclusion might be a potent remedy.

Strada, with all his bigotry to the Spanish cause, admits that these excesses were atrocious crimes rather than just punishments: nonpoena,sedflagitium.

The excess of imports in the third group probably is the result of new investments that were being made in Canada by English and American capitalists, in Turkey especially by Germans, and in China by Americans and Europeans.

An interesting commentary on the opinion before us is the fact already noted that an excess of exports is the usual situation in poor debtor countries having constant interest payments to meet; while, on the contrary, rich creditor countries have an excess of merchandise imports.

you mean that it is too long, and excess is a fault.

I assured him that excess even of delicacy was a mistake and that I would try to get the picture back.

16 Metaphors for  excesses