Adjective : extreme measures. ,extreme joy. ,the extreme limits of a town. ,an object at the extreme point of vision. ,extreme fashions. ,an extreme conservative. ,extreme hopes. ,extreme skiing. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : cautious to an extreme. ,the extremes of joy and grief. ,extremes in dress. ,the extreme of poverty. From Dictionary.com.
Said extremeness is generally coming in the form of dumbness. From Wordnik.com. [Reconsidering Project Runway] Reference
I think though that another contributing factor beyond general extremeness is growth rate. From Wordnik.com. [Why is the internet so extreme? or No, your language is not dead. : #comments] Reference
'00 "extremeness" and you have yourself one of the top three albums of 2008. From Wordnik.com. [MetalSucks] Reference
Personally, I always thought the "extremeness" of these makeovers was ridiculous in the first place. From Wordnik.com. [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference
But certainly nothing of this depth or extremeness. From Wordnik.com. [Antiquarian Weird Tales: Joe Shuster Revelation] Reference
"It's that extremeness that pushes things forward.". From Wordnik.com. [Alexander McQueen at the Met] Reference
My heart was pounding with all the extremeness of your foods!. From Wordnik.com. [X is for...] Reference
In her therapeutics there is nothing new except its extremeness. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
The extremeness often feels punitive and impossible to maintain. From Wordnik.com. [Link Farm and Open Thread #10] Reference
On a basic level far lefties are defined by the extremeness of their policies. From Wordnik.com. [The Center « Christopher Colaninno] Reference
It just adds to the extremeness of bitters at first, and than disappears like a Gaucho into the night. From Wordnik.com. [Yerbamate] Reference
However, given the extremeness of these assumptions, the probability of such a scenario is less than 20 percent. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Shock Absorber] Reference
Often this is associated with dehydration, so the people don't look like they're in the state of extremeness that you may see with heat stroke. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2006] Reference
It is interesting how people at risk of losing a debate will often try to ridicule their opponent by exaggerating the extremeness of their view. From Wordnik.com. [New Holland and Webster Paper « Climate Audit] Reference
If you can accept the extremeness of the characters' emotions, there is a fairly good underlying plot, and the interactions of the characters is compelling just like a soap opera. From Wordnik.com. [The Ships of Earth by Orson Scott Card] Reference
People against Singularitarian ideas just tend to be against them strongly, because they grab so much attention, and in referring to them as held by a minority seek to downplay the extremeness to critical outsiders. From Wordnik.com. [The Speculist: Singularitarians] Reference
It was an extreme act of art that became foundational — inaugurating a shift in style from American abstract painting and Pop to post-Minimalism, conceptual and performance art — without ever losing its extremeness. From Wordnik.com. [Summary of '69] Reference
Thus was highway privatization stripped of its extremeness. From Wordnik.com. [Eye on Williamson] Reference
"I guess they're looking for the extremeness of the sport.". From Wordnik.com. [Paul & Matt's Sports Attack] Reference
This is a classic example of what psychologists call "extremeness aversion.". From Wordnik.com. [NY Post: News] Reference
Once that was achieved, we wanted to turn up a notch in terms of extremeness. From Wordnik.com. [TheGauntlet.com] Reference
At the time I cringed but still didn't understand her extremeness in frugality. From Wordnik.com. [Silicon Valley Moms Blog] Reference
What's this, another way to capture for posterity the extremeness of our helmet-requiring pastimes?. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets] Reference
This is no regular dirt road in my mind, holes in the road match the extremeness of the surroundings. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
Perhaps people feed off of its extremeness: break-neck speeds, life-threatening danger, and top-performance vehicles. From Wordnik.com. [Home] Reference
The extremeness vibes merely from sitting in front of it will bleach your clothes into neon hues and make you sweat drops of energy drink. From Wordnik.com. [OCTools] Reference
Because of the absolute extremeness of these elite combat units, the mystique of the Kamikazes has become almost impossible to break through over 55 years later. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Japan wants to exit from aid politics as China muscles in] Reference
At the Yvonne Arnaud, most of the audience laugh at this point, the extremeness of Lee's vision having pushed it into the realm of what might be called the satirically absurd. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
I cannot allow the present production of my young friend to go out without a protest from me against a certain extremeness in his views, more pardonable in the poet than in the philosopher. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference
As I’ve said a few times here, it’s the extremeness of it that I find challenging. From Wordnik.com. [Of Shoes And Ships And Sealing Wax And Hoarding Stuff And Things | Her Bad Mother] Reference
I’m still skeptical at the extremeness of some of his comments, but I think that the attitude he’s advocating is definitely a good way to go about the business. From Wordnik.com. [From Short to Long « A Little Imagination] Reference
But whatever you may think of the legal vacuum surrounding abortion, good or bad, you can hardly call it a moderate position: rather, it’s the very epitome of extremeness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
(Well, the Core i7-975 Extreme earns its extremeness by offering an unlocked upper multiplier for the overclocking crowd, too. From Wordnik.com. [The Tech Report: News] Reference
Zso likes extremeness, she works by day. From Wordnik.com. [LCSV4 The Illustration News Portal] Reference
This is extremeness and arrogance. From Wordnik.com. [ExChristian.Net -- encouraging ex-Christians] Reference
Some emotion, more extremeness, some craziness, some feeling, really. From Wordnik.com. [Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch] Reference
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