How To Use Immoderate In A Sentence

He rebukes himself for his abandonment to 'the worst voluptuousness, which is an hydroptic, immoderate desire of human learning and languages.' Figures of Several Centuries
When their controls proved unavailing, and the charges failed to meet their exacting code of conduct, they could be seen meting out punishments that were also immoderate, disproportionate to the supposed offense.
And even if there were such a thing as "moderate" Talibans and we made a deal with them, where would that leave us with the "immoderate" Taliban that would not attorn to the deal. Latest Articles
The only subjects on which I would very much identify as immoderate are the Constitution and abortion, but I don't accept those are partisan issues as explained in comments passim ad nauseum, and even there, I don't feel I'm so extreme as to be unreasonable. "Ann Althouse Defends Scott Turow's Honor."
A buffet-style dinner would rarely be my first choice since I don't always have a good appetite and think immoderate eating and drinking is unhealthy.

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It is not only that they show little of Donne's subtlety of mind or 'hydroptic, immoderate thirst of human learning', but they want, what gives its interest to this subtle and fantastic misapplication of learning, the complexity of mood, the range of personal feeling which lends such fullness of life to Donne's strange and troubled poetry. Introduction. Grierson, Herbert J.C
Also, one step in"Step Algorithm", which takes off one unit of bandwidth away from the virtual path with lowest CBP in the whole network, is explained to be immoderate.
In my view, this virtually guaranteed the result - and the leap from that to the headline seems immoderate, to say the least.
That hardly qualifies as an irrational act of an immoderate president.
Now Collins defines the word as grossly offensive, violent or unrestrained behaviour, or extravagant or immoderate.
In the female flux (immoderate menstruation?), if convulsion and deliquium come on, it is bad. Aphorisms
I take offence at the suggestion, which would be refuted by anyone present in the Committee, that my behaviour was intemperate, immoderate, or offensive, if that word was used, as well.
This was in the notorious letter to Michelangelo, published in 1550, in which the writer roundly denounced the pagan profanity and immoderate artistic license of The Last Judgment.
Already the tragic discovery of a yellow-suited body among the pinnacles has led to furious and immoderate speculation in the national press.
And also, as the book says, it's a polemic, meaning that it's going to be one-sided and immoderate, and basically just something provocative to start you thinking.
Decimus, that hunting pope, is much discommended by [1877] Jovius in his life, for his immoderate desire of hawking and hunting, in so much that (as he saith) he would sometimes live about Ostia weeks and months together, leave suitors [1878] unrespected, bulls and pardons unsigned, to his own prejudice, and many private men's loss. Anatomy of Melancholy
That hardly qualifies as an irrational act of an immoderate president.
She is refreshingly immoderate in her vision of what deep democracy might entail, and uses extreme examples from around the world to illustrate it.
There are a number of causes for sports injuries, including faulty training methods, immoderate amount of exercise, bad physical conditions and even ill-fitted shoes.
Remember the cause of this is blocking the qi of the spleen and stomach as a result of excessively cold or hot food and drink and immoderate and irregular eating habits.
This book, however, lives up to the occasional immoderate capitalization by its enthusiasts.
Life and crime are games to these characters, and they vacillate between childish gaiety and immoderate violence.
He must escape from that "hydroptic, immoderate" thirst of experience by yielding to it. The Art of Letters
Twelve of our crew were dead by immoderate labour, and ill food.
While as a civilised society we must never forget the genocides of history, we equally have to avoid the illegitimate use of such memories to justify immoderate propping-up of doubtful political systems.
Although Leapor accepts that many women are guilty of inconstancy and immoderate behaviour, she none the less holds out the prospect of transformation.
Unless you're an ultra-radical libertarian who thinks that ethical considerations should not be considered in regulating science, this is hardly an immoderate position.
We cannot evade Philosophy by immoderately pleading our human frailty and the sharpness of pain: Philosophy is merely constrained to have recourse to her unanswerable counterplea: ‘Living in necessity is bad: but at least there is no necessity that you should go on doing so.’ Evil is Good « So Many Books
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He was all that she decidedly was not -- an adventurer, immoderate, unpredictable. DARE CALL IT TREASON
There is no doubt, too, that the immoderate drinking of beer tends to weaken instead of strengthen the inhabitants, especially as so many of them drink when they ought to eat, even beginning a day's work by chilling their stomachs with this cold beverage, and necessitating thereby a supplementary draught of "schnapps," thus creating excitement instead of nourishment, and superinducing a second bad habit upon a first. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
Will the world be turned into an endless, dreary ‘green desert’ of food crops to feed our immoderate hordes, or will our great-grandchildren still enjoy the natural profusion which we take for granted?
He was all that she decidedly was not -- an adventurer, immoderate, unpredictable. DARE CALL IT TREASON
In more contemporary terms, an immoderate, rapacious industrialism consumes the consumer.
The law of North Carolina prohibits the "immoderate" correction of slaves. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4
This was in the notorious letter to Michelangelo, published in 1550, in which the writer roundly denounced the pagan profanity and immoderate artistic license of the painting.
He launched an immoderate tirade on Turner, accusing him of lack of stomach for the fight, of failure of nerve, of lack of leadership. THE SCAR
She'd closed off most of the conduits to her own family, so Mac had gotten a big, immoderate share. FLIGHT LESSONS
Though he admired drunks immoderately, he was seldom seen drunk in what was already a heavy - drinking milieu.
immoderate laughter
If anything, their multiplication has divided New England immoderately and perhaps irreparably.
It also contains an alkaloid called arecoline, which can usually due to excessive or immoderate use over a long period of time produce squamous cell carcinoma of the mouth, a form of skin cancer.
It was a moderately brave act of which I remain immoderately proud, as a just and deeply felt tribute to a truly great player.
Clean up the flat of some clutter, toys, immoderateness furniture, books or anything that gets tangled around. Xml's Blinklist.com
How is repeatedly saying that Obama is like Bush "immoderate"? The Obama administration would like you to know that the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" has been kicked down the road.
Not only will none of that pressure pervade the next conclave, but almost certainly pressure will build for the successor to break free, at least in name, from a pontificate of immoderate length.
His stories are highly coloured and immoderate, both sweet and sour.
Our first days on the job were an immoderate success.
No unclean passion must dwell there, no carnal appetite, no defiling conversation, no immoderateness in eating and drinking. My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year
The beets were sliced on a mandoline and served in a Sherry vinaigrette with an immoderate amount of good olive oil.
Forsitan in quibusdam populis localis quoque causa existit; caruncula immoderate crescente, amputationis necessitas exurgit. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
Playing bumble-puppy with Minnie Beebe, niece to the rector, and aged thirteen -- an ancient and most honourable game, which consists in striking tennis-balls high into the air, so that they fall over the net and immoderately bounce; some hit Mrs. Honeychurch; others are lost. A Room with a View
Brand seems like a kind of immoderate murder which entrepreneurs conduct to the consumers'thinking rights.
As I composed yesterday's immoderate post on abortion, one of the things on my mind was that the various factions that loosely make up what we call conservatism's "right wing" have won at least one battle in the culture war. The Work That Euphemism Does: A Few Thoughts on the Recent History of Abortion
The dangers of immoderate wine consumption were fully recognized, and excess strictly forbidden.
The meaning whereof is, that in Iuly the sun is in Leo At which tyme the Dogge starre, which is called Syrius or Canicula reigneth, with immoderate heate causing Pestilence, drought, and many diseases. Shepheardes Calendar
In 1513 Conrad Mudt (Mutianus Rufus, supporter of Reuchlin and friend of Melanchthon) saw and heard Georg Faust at Erfurt; he wrote to a fellow humanist that this “immoderate and Foolish braggart,” calling himself the “demigod from Heidelberg,” before astonished listeners “talked nonsense at the inn.” Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Many are carried away with those bewitching sports of gaming, hawking, hunting, and such vain pleasures, as [4526] I have said: some with immoderate desire of fame, to be crowned in the Olympics, knighted in the field, &c., and by these means ruinate themselves. Anatomy of Melancholy
He rebukes himself for his abandonment to 'the worst voluptuousness, which is an hydroptic, immoderate desire of human learning and languages.' Figures of Several Centuries
He has left it on record in one of his letters that he was a victim at one period of "the worst voluptuousness, an hydroptic, immoderate desire of human learning and languages. The Art of Letters
We laughed so immoderately that he had to dismiss us for that evening.
Now, my legs can't manage cobbled streets, and my heart responds badly to a sudden and immoderate intake of alcohol.
The focus on public perception was timely and uncommonly sensible, leading to immoderate yahooing in certain loungerooms.
Mankind's behaviors of immoderately use the environment and resources suffered from the retaliation of environment, and then begin to study the sustainable development problem.
The Philosopher gives it the name of wittiness (_eutrapelia_), and a man is said to be pleasant through having a happy turn* of mind, whereby he gives his words and deeds a cheerful turn: and inasmuch as this virtue restrains a man from immoderate fun, it is comprised under modesty. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
Odysseus through his continency and the ‘promptings66 of Hermes’ abstained from touching them immoderately, and by the same token did not turn into Memorabilia
He was all that she decidedly was not -- an adventurer, immoderate, unpredictable. DARE CALL IT TREASON
Biology, as Burned Man sometimes remarked, was both bewildering and immoderate. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
From the tender age of twelve, my mother had been unable to start her day without the aid of at least two cups of immoderately strong, tar-black, unsweetened coffee, a taste for which she had picked up from the tugboat captains and zooty bachelors who filled the boardinghouse where she had grown up. Middlesex
He told her that barrenness is cured by the presence of immoderate heat in a woman accompanied by turgescence. Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
Seems the organizers like the cut of my "immoderate moderator" jib, which is deeply flattering and rewarding as I always have a lot of fun doing it. Uninstalled
But surely three glasses of draught beer in a day could not be called immoderate? Maigret and the Loner
Although William Beckford wrote a Gothick romance as reckless and immoderate as himself, his life of epic prodigality would arrest attention had he not written a single line.
The law is this: The creedalism and immoderateness of Socialism, other things being equal, vary inversely with its age and responsibility. Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement
The overriding principle is not to offend the sensitive by immoderate cachinnation at an inappropriate joke. Times, Sunday Times
No doubt, the moral aspect of comedy is here marked with what must be called immoderate stress. English literary criticism
A moment after "grace" Harcourt made a poor witticism, at which the majority laughed with an immoderateness quite disproportionate. From Jest to Earnest
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Like Pale Fire, Lolita begins with an immoderate conceit that allows its author and reader to explore the extravagant, pleasurable, and disturbing fringes of the language.
This I made account: I began early, when I understood the study of our laws; but was diverted by leaving that, and embracing the worst voluptuousness, an hydroptic immoderate desire of human learning and languages; beautiful ornaments indeed to men of great fortunes, but mine was grown so low as to need an occupation; which I thought I entered well into, when I subjected myself to such a service as I thought might exercise my poor abilities; and there I stumbled, and fell too; and now I am become so little, or such a nothing, that I am not a subject good enough for one of my own letters. The Life of Dr. Donne. Paras. 1-49
They are immoderately fond of dancing, and indeed it is almost the only amusement they partake of: but even in this they discover great want of taste and elegance, and seldom appear with that gracefulness and ease, which these movements are so calculated to display. A Renegade History of the United States
The tension is as palpable as the waft of gohrmeh-sabzi and kabab emanating from the kitchen, tinged with the miasma of cologne and perfume hanging in the air, thanks to immoderate uncles and aunts.
Brand seems like a kind of immoderate murder which entrepreneurs conduct to the consumers'thinking rights.
All the O'Haras are good on horseback '– at which he laughed immoderately and told her that when she had seen one, Zack Duppo, on a buckjumper, she would not be keen to try that game. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
Howsoever it may be with all other aberrations of the human intellect, there is one description of errors from which it would be uncandid to deny that they are wholly free, viz. all those which arise from immoderate benevolence or ill-regulated philanthropy.
Many of the Reformers (by my reading of them) condemned the notion of real presence (and transubstantiation) because they interpreted it as a fleshy and physical presence (what you call crass and I might call immoderate realist). Sacramental Presence; Not Local--Thomas Aquinas
It can only be to encourage people to be immoderate.
He launched an immoderate tirade on Turner, accusing him of lack of stomach for the fight, of failure of nerve, of lack of leadership. THE SCAR
Receiving the round initial in the third quarter, the Rams would put together the 10-play, 61-yard expostulate immoderate 5 mins as great as finishing it off with the 6-yard TD pass from Stefkovich to So, TE, Joe Migliarese (Blue Bell, Pa.) to tighten the measure to twenty-nine twenty-eight TU. Archive 2009-12-01
A religion then is indispensable in keeping these immoderate passions in check, because religions tell people that there is a moral order in the world: that the good get rewarded and the evil punished.
His stories are highly coloured and immoderate, both sweet and sour.
GOLDBERG: But that said, you know, the reason why Gephardt is trying sound so reasonable and moderate on this is because he's trying do something that is unreasonable and immoderate, which is repeal the law of the land, which a lot of Democrats passed, which -- and claimed that these tax cuts somehow have created this deficit, which the CBO just reported it didn't ... CNN Transcript Jan 27, 2002
When she talked, she spoke in husky tones and larded her remarks with double-entendres, and when I talked, she hung on my words and laughed immoderately at the faintest suggestion of wit in my remarks.
She'd closed off most of the conduits to her own family, so Mac had gotten a big, immoderate share. FLIGHT LESSONS
Sirius is the brightest star in the sky, ascendant during the "dog days" of July and August, "at which time the Dogge starre, which is called Syrius, or Canicula, reigneth with immoderate heate, causing pestilence, drougth, and many diseases The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
All this madness yet proceeds from ourselves, the main engine which batters us is from others, we are merely passive in this business: from a company of parasites and flatterers, that with immoderate praise, and bombast epithets, glossing titles, false eulogiums, so bedaub and applaud, gild over many a silly and undeserving man, that they clap him quite out of his wits. Anatomy of Melancholy
Cardinal Newman's axiom, "It is never worth while to call whity-brown white, for the sake of avoiding scandal"; and Father Faber's own felicitous comment on religious "hedgers," "A moderation which consists in taking immoderate liberties with God is hardly what the Americans and Others
Biology, as Burned Man sometimes remarked, was both bewildering and immoderate. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
The one complaint possible against Isadora Duncan is that she has rendered us immoderately dissatisfied with what had once moderately contented us; and the fear is that we shall promptly have a host of half-baked imitators, who will copy the mere accidentals of her system without understanding the essentials, and will fancy that the whole matter is one of clothes and music, and prance about bare-legged, meaninglessly. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"
Reading mainstream superhero books, with their immoderate physiques, in public can be ‘embarrassing, frankly.’

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