Afterward, each side made its points to the assembled news corps without the verbal excesses that became the norm.

Though evocative of real happenings, the lack of physical detail in setting is meant to balance the verbal excess.

The novel is highly repetitious (one analysis calls it "a verbal excess"), with Cy amplifying the various back stories, in ways which emphasize, and sometimes are, the themes.

He takes a Rabelaisian delight in sheer verbal excess that lies outside Elomire's esthetic.

If his opponents want to criticize the Mayor's verbal excesses, they should do so without trying to prove they can be tough at name-calling too.

Now she has been educated to the point of delivering her own verbal excess and mixed metaphors: "There are lines we cross, all of them pregnant with consequences.

The verbal excesses in "China" are understandable.

- that he utters to parody himself (and those for whom home runs are a time for verbal excess) in one of four commercials in a Budweiser television campaign.

Whatever Jörg Haider' s verbal excesses, which we of course deplore, the Austrians have made a democratic choice, and we must respect this.

In close games, Walton has toned down his extreme analyses - which often sound contemptuous - and his verbal excesses.