Word: surfeiting
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...Vagabond is low in his mind; a situation which is exceedingly serious in the case of one whose eyes are habitually fixed on the furthest nebulae. His present intellectual depression is the result of a surfeit of extreme contrasts, a diet upon which he has subsisted entirely since returning to Widener's profound shades...
...only hope is to be ourselves and circulate the impression that we have put on the pretense of being gentlemen from sheer surfeit with the things of this world. After all, we owe it to coming generations of Dartmouth men to preserve the world's illusion concerning them. We must save them their birthright. We can't eat a mess of pottage and have it too. The Dartmouth...
...news that Christianity is outlived, that God has left his church and returned to the fire and whirlwind, is one that might, almost any day nowadays, provide a sensation for the outspoken U. S. press. Particularly if there were violent or sexual details would the public be served to surfeit, until a very real crisis in one man's life became a vulgar byword, grossly misinterpreted...
...There are approximately 300 pieces, pictures and sculpture, and each provides sufficient study and pleasure for all who can see and feel the message of the artist, to enthrall for hours. There is a surfeit of aesthetic delight in strolling around the lovely grounds, where marvelous bronzes and statues stand among the trees and on the terraces...
...Cabell's aim and custom to "write perfectly of beautiful happenings." He still writes perfectly, that is to say, with great solicitude for the antique rhythm and consonance of his finical phrases, but his passion for beautiful happenings has been lapped by the irony of surfeit. Either that, or things in Poictesme†are working out to natural conclusions and Mr. Cabell, as a determined realist, reports them with a deciduous emphasis so that no misapprehension may remain. Queen Freydis has faded. The hair of Melicent, once a golden net where dreams were tangled, will grow straggly and fall...