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• "It has been truly unavoidable and far from our wishes that our empire has been brought to cross swords with the United States and Great Britain, " but Japan's enemies had disturbed the peace of East Asia in their -inordinate ambition to dominate the Orient. —  December 6
• I should, I suppose, apologize for the inordinate length of this letter and perhaps also for its lack of clarity, but as I have gotten saner. —  The Poetry of Madness
• OBAMA: And now that they're back on their feet, we expect an inordinate -- an extraordinary commitment from them to help rebuild our economy. —  CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2009
• The author of that letter doesn't need to "apologize for the inordinate length of this letter and perhaps also for its lack of clarity… —  The Poetry of Madness
• And as you amuse me sometimes, as now, by seeming surprised at some chance expression of a truth which is grown a veriest commonplace to me — like Charles Lamb's 'letter to an elderly man whose education had been neglected' — when he finds himself involuntarily communicating truths above the capacity and acquirements of his friend, and stops himself after this fashion — 'If you look round the world, my dear Sir — for it is round! — so I will make you laugh at me, if you will, for my inordinate delight at hearing the success of your experiment with the opium. —  The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett

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