immoderation

Most everyone else is busy eating and drinking, usually in immoderation.

A few of his expenses "bear earmarks of immoderation," the report said.

A negative cautiousness stands for reckless action, imprudence, immoderation.

Most obese individuals, she says, suffer not from a physical or mental illness, "but from a condition of immoderation.

For without the grand immoderation of supernovas there would be no ingredients-no oxygen, carbon, silicon, or iron.

Immoderation, Mariotta, is a thief of money and intestinal joy, but who'd check it?

"Those who wish to complain of this haste and immoderation can complain afterward.

The operative phrase was cheerful immoderation.

It is her immoderation that leads to her triumph as a nurse during the Crimean War.

She spent much of her career chastening Hollywood's excesses while brushing off complaints about immoderation on her own part.

It seemed an immoderation.

He sensed that the touch of her attention engendered immoderation, and also that, should she meet him, she would not like him either.

Within pages, that soaring happiness predictably crashes and burns, leaving only the immoderation and the residual high drama.

Paying reparations is a classic punishment of war but in this instance it was the "extreme immoderation" (History) that caused German resentment.

Whole Foods may aim to be a rebuke to the excess that comes of petrochemical might, unconscious gluttony, and corn-bloated immoderation.

"And what glue have you dissolved, Suicide, that finally allows your jaws to flap with such un-Scyth-ian immoderation?"

She spoke out with such immoderation that it was hard to tell - and maybe she couldn't, either - whether the rant was heartfelt or shtick.

Girodet's strangeness and fairly repellent character make him, if not likable, then fascinating to contemplate and heroic in his immoderation.

Grievous immoderation led the Indians down a poignant, one-way trail that culminated in cession of their overharvested lands to the Crown.

(posted Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1998) "Reverse Triangulation": How Clinton's immoderation helps the Democrats look moderate.

To some Gaian sects, of course, this just validates their worldview, that for every immoderation there is an inevitable counter, some negative feedback to restore a balance.

The Busoni Piano Concerto -heard in a rare revival at Carnegie Hall on Friday evening - is a hymn to immoderation.

Mary is every pregnant mother who has ever thought "He will be great" of the child in her womb, and then drawn back in unspoken anxiety at her own reckless immoderation.

Let us create a world which gives rewards, not for making a quick, short-term profit and immoderation, but for proper work, and which regards social responsibility as a basic value.

This advice would have required him to renounce the company of those courtiers who benefited from his immoderation, so these conspired to slander Dion such that he was exiled again.