"Emotional excess" refers to an overwhelming or intense display of emotions. It means experiencing feelings or reactions that are exaggerated, extreme, or beyond what is considered normal or expected. Full definition
Lincoln rejected this Calvinist view later in life and shunned emotional excess, but the Calvinism of his youth left him with a sense of fatalism that endured throughout his life. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
Ironically, these two men are often caricatured as promoting a religion of wild emotional excess, when in fact they took pains to insist that a life of love and joy does not rule out reasoned reflection or active social involvement. (religion-online.org)
When Minimalism came to the fore in the 1960s, it was seen by its adherents as a logical reaction to what were then perceived as the sensationally emotional excesses that had become the hallmark of the Abstract Expressionist artists in the postwar period. (hamptonsarthub.com)