Obesity cannot be a problem of poverty due to it being caused (in most cases) by excess.

Her friends and neighbors were angry at her because she had overstepped, given too much, offended them by excess.

Driven by biological excess, a young man and woman search for sexual fulfillment, unaware of each other's existence.

The Americans carry to an even wilder extreme this darkness by excess of light.

Therefore, it is unfortunate that in his final chapter Pollack damages his argument by rhetorical excess.

But voters remain dismayed by governmental excess and now the time has come for the Speaker to put his energies behind a reasonable remedy.

By what excess of treasonable impudence do you wear the hawk seal upon your arm?

The emerald potion, by some error or excess of potcncy, had taken him many years beyond his own time into the future!

It is to be explained and forgiven in terms of an unfortunate mental aberration brought about, or at least intensified, by religious excess.

Organic farming can represent a real alternative to intensive and industrial agriculture, which has sinned by excess.