extremeness

Recently, though, all that extremeness has seemed, well, too extreme.

The extremeness of this behavior would seem to indicate that it is not natural to the men in question."

And, indeed, it is the extremeness of Mahler that seems to captivate us.

It's different in the extremeness of the shootings.

Until it had been experienced in its extremeness, it would not be recognized as a discrete sensation.

Extreme Universe is a documentary about extremeness of our Universe.

You will rough it for a few sights - but it will blow your mind in terms of extremeness.

It may have been motivated by fears and fantasies about savage Indians, he concluded, but in its extremeness, it was a phenomenon that defied explanation.

"It was autobiographical, except the extremeness of it and the literalness of it was not."

On the other hand, to the extent that extremeness is part of the message, one wants to hear players who can make the quartets sound bewildering all over again.

The sheer megalomania of this work, similar to that which hampers much of Picasso's late efforts, can be quite daunting, and even alien in its extremeness.

But it's all a bit too much, absurd in its compression, gothic in its extremeness and insufficiently connected to the sea journey that precedes it.

Ed Gillespie, communications director for the Republican National Committee, said this latest debate simply underscored the extremeness of the President's views.

"His views, while they are well known, surprised me by their extremeness," Mr. Klieforth wrote, relating a conversation two years earlier with Cardinal Pacelli.

With the agitated nature of the dancing and the extremeness of the interactions onstage, "In Bella Copia" could have the effect of keeping one awake far into the night.

"That screen is huge, and the sound, and the extremeness of the situation - I was sitting there watching, and I thought, this is too exposing, and so I left.

In instances where the incriminating/exonerating proportion of facts was the opposite of both the trial incriminating/exonerating appearance and the facts cited by the participant, postdiscussion judgment moved away from extremeness.

The Dostoyevskian weirdness of New Leftism's final years, the purges and accusations, the extremeness of the anti-male chauvinism campaign - all of this well depicted in his book - left him upset and alone.

At many technically difficult or "special effect" passages Saturday, I found myself impressed by how musical it all sounded, how well Bartok's ideas hold up when stripped by familiarity (ours and the players') of their one-time extremeness.

It was, however, the only book immediately at hand; and I indulged a vague hope that the excitement which now agitated the hypochondriac, might find relief (for the history of mental disorder is full of similar anomalies) even in the extremeness of the folly which I should read.

For this reason, at least, one-half of the "Paradise Lost" is essentially prose- a succession of poetical excitements interspersed, inevitably, with corresponding depressions- the whole being deprived, through the extremeness of its length, of the vastly important artistic element, totality, or unity of effect.