Michael Raedecker's paintings never struck me as being in the running, and it was inevitable that one would compare his subtly lit, muted canvases, with their peculiar surfaces - with wormlike excrescences of paint and mad patches of sewing - with the suave sheen and high production values of Glenn Brown's work. (theguardian.com)
I see it's stolen the odd excrescences at the top of the black wheel arch trim from Land Rover. (burlappcar.com)
In the liturgy as well as in other departments of the Church's life there are regrettable excrescences and an arbitrary desire for novelties which must be repressed courageously and charitably. (religion-online.org)