In a letter to Donald Wandrei written August 2, 1927, Lovecraft said that this poem was supposed to be a "parody on those stylistic excesses which really have no basic meaning".

It also praises how the author delivers the heroine's secrets without stylistic excess and the acuteness in the depiction of Daisuke's reaction and behavior.

Werner Schroeter (7 April 1945 - 12 April 2010) was a German film director, screenwriter, and opera director known for his stylistic excess.

Every stylistic excess and moral defect which critics conspired to ignore in the author's first books, Lanark and Unlikely Stories, Mostly, is to be found here in concentrated form.

Unfortunately, the novel's stylistic excesses and self-referential structure deflate the undeniable moments of pathos that arise from the depths of the narrator's pain.

But his stylistic excesses have been obscured by the gauzy haze of history.

Still other historians regard Modernism as a matter of taste, a reaction against eclecticism and the lavish stylistic excesses of Victorian and Edwardian architecture.

Basically, it's a protracted exercise in translating stylistic excesses from one culture into another.

Although Ms. Burton and her team have tried to pare down some of Printemps's stylistic excesses, he worries that "we've gone a little overboard," he said.

If Mr. Porter flirts with stylistic excess, he rarely goes over the line.