The trouble is, they may find that their putative clients have been spoilt by a surfeit of luxuries, with their bankers' compliments.

ECONOMIST: Private banking in South Korea

In the end, though, the movie's flaws don't matter all that much, for "Hitch" is a rare studio film that's bursting with a surfeit of ambition, a surplus of good ideas.

WSJ: Will Power

Any reputational damage from a shortage, or surfeit, of cash lies with the central bank.

ECONOMIST: The business of printing money thrives on financial crises

With factories revolutionized, with shelves groaning under the weight of a surfeit of goods, stores for the first time let Americans buy on credit.

FORBES: Magazine Article

BET, treasured by some as the only channel devoted to black entertainment, is trashed by others for a lack of social conscience, a surfeit of crude comedy and a predilection for music videos rife with flashy cars, quivering cleavage and gyrating hips.

FORBES: The cable capitalist

On February 29th, two days before parliamentary elections in Iran, I joined a few dozen foreign correspondents along with official handlers in the parking lot of the Laleh, a formerly five-star Tehran hotel with tatty rooms, an ornate lobby, and a surfeit of eyes.

NEWYORKER: Election, Monitored

Their vibe is masculine with a gray-and-brown palette and a surfeit of technology, such as the maddening touch-screen panel meant to control the suite's three TVs (one in the bathroom mirror), DVD player, radio, iPod dock, temperature, drapes, lights, and many other things I never got the hang of.

FORBES: Debut

But the result is a surfeit of rather flat news stories and the book only really comes to life with the last two sections, perhaps because the follies of dotcom valuations and subprime loans seem so fresh in the memory.

ECONOMIST: Michael Lewis

The surfeit of sports data makes it easy to distinguish between bargain-priced players and underachievers with bloated salaries.

FORBES: Which jocks provide the best bang for the buck?