overexcessive

Example Sentences

• "This program helps meet a deep-seated rural need. A rural survey reveals among the chief causes of the exodus of its young people: (a) Anti-social conditions, (b) Overexcessive hours."
• "Are honest lawyers so rare in Central Illinois in Lincoln’s time? No; what all attestators are really trying to state is, that Lincoln is abnormally honest; his honesty is so overexcessive that he legally “Jeans over backward.”"
• "One may save money and not be thrifty. We need to ask ourselves, '‘What do our savings represent T’ If saving means doing without all that we need and long for, if it involves stinginess, if it means opportunities unrealized, if it means an overexcessive expenditure of energy, strength, or time, this is not true thrift. On the other hand, true thrift and good money management involve the wise division of the income ; the spending of money, time, and energy for desirable things ; the intelligent use of materials after they have been purchased ; the elimination of waste and extravagance ; and the saving of money to provide for future emergencies."
• "Being familiar with the problems of grape growers and the wine industry it Is my firm belief that if enacted as currently proposed this overexcessive tax recommendation would cause irreparable harm to befall not only those immediately connected with the industry, but would adversely affect areas in which grapes are grown and would be particularly injurious to the agricultural economy as a whole."
• "Besides, a sled had to be built, a sled strong enough to carry fourteen cylinders of oxygen. These, together with the two tanks Ted and Forbes would be carrying on their backs when they left, would insure enough for the trip to the dump—providing there was no overexcessive delay."
• "Fever is simply indication of trouble and is a basic way of purification and of elimination. It is an indicator and not a disease in itself. Ponder on this, and apply it on all planes, for physical plane fever has its astral and mental counterparts. It is overexcessive energy which burns up and, in burning, relieves and cures (either through the subjugation of the germ or group of energies which caused it or by the releasing power of death). Where possible, and when the physical body is strong enough to stand the strain, it is well to let the fever have its way for a time, for it is nature’s cure of certain undesirable conditions. Fevers not only give warning of the presence of that which causes distress, but have in themselves definite therapeutic value. But careful watching and balancing will be required— balancing against the energies of the body. Whilst the fever is rampant, the body is rendered relatively futile, and its normal activities are affected. As to the cure and the correct treatment of fevers, much is known by the orthodox medical profession, and this knowledge will suffice until such time as the causes of fevers are better understood and physicians can work with the cause and not with the effect."