Surfeit in a sentence

Although it touts itself as the most trusted, accurate and unbiased source of news, its coverage, particularly in 1953, contained a surfeit of anti-Mossadegh bias.

As that tune’s title makes clear, “I’m Just Ken” is a navel-gazing ode-to-self sung, as he puts it, Barbie while strumming doggedly at his guitar in a surfeit of frustrated, displaced sexual energy emanating from the supposedly sexless figure.

As usual there is a surfeit of Western double-think to go along with rank hypocrisy.

If there is one thing that Nigeria has a surfeit of, it is poor leaders.

The sticking point with Portland has been their surfeit of talent at his position.

One factor easing the current crisis is a surfeit of ships and cargo containers.

A surfeit of stellar options at full-back means even the excellent Mohammed Al Breik should not be missed.

For reasons cited above, I find the notion that the U.S. government is suffering from a surfeit of democracy to be unintelligible.

Nor is the thickness of Lerner’s description mere skylarking; in each of the proliferating niches where Adam looks for depth, we find instead the twinned signs of surfeit and hunger, of narrowing possibilities and compensatory aggression.

That was a dig at Prince Andrew and his claim to Emily Maitlis that for many years after the Falklands War he was unable to sweat, owing to a surfeit of adrenaline.

There’s definitely a problem when a surfeit of analysis prompts you to start over-intellectualising your emotional impulses, instead of learning how to master them.

Each one of Japan’s 47 prefectures pulls out the stops to strut their stuff, showing off their geographic and cultural amazements—Unesco treasures even—along with a surfeit of local craft beer, sake and culinary delights.

It proved to be fantastic: pieces of crunchy, smaller-size cucumbers in a surfeit of oily, herby, garlicky, spicy sauce (more than enough to put over some rice).

As for the experiment itself, it succeeded excellently well; but in the journey between London and Highgate, I was taken with such a fit of casting as I know not whether it were the Stone, or some surfeit or cold, or indeed a touch of them all three.

Even their most uninhibited documents of self-congratulations are haunted by the threat of overvloed, the surfeit that rose like a cresting flood – a word heavy with warning as well as euphoria.

For example, they can move some of a rural store's surfeit of fishing gear to an urban store.

Numerous – probably fictitious – accounts circulated soon after his death that he had been killed by poisoned ale, poisoned plums or a "surfeit of peaches".