6 sentences with “excesses”

The Stoics accepted the need to be part of a society and to fulfil social obligations, but warned against the excesses of pride and greed.

The elite ministers of British America were firmly Old Lights, and decried the new revival as chaos. Indeed, revivals sometimes led to excesses.

The Federalists saw unchecked democracy as a grave threat to the republic, and pointed to the excesses of the French Revolution as evidence of what lay ahead.

Some of the more egregious excesses of the oligarchs of the 1990s were also repressed, while some oligarchs were instead incorporated into the United Russia power structure.

While wealthy members of the bourgeoisie mingled with and sometimes married into the nobility, others considered themselves distinct, celebrating a life of productive work and serious education over what they saw as the excesses of the aristocracy.

Among Catholics at all levels of the social hierarchy, Catholic rituals were comforting, and while the rejection of the excesses of Catholic ritual had been part of the appeal of Protestantism for some, for many others it was precisely those familiar rituals that made Catholicism attractive.