A more serious blemish with most modern poetry, is nimiety, the tendency to dilute the general effect by repetition. |
I was only once faced with the task of auditioning a nimiety of sopranos. |
She could not forgive the nimiety of blunders and Carmen offered no apologies. |
There are moments in Bach when I would accuse him of nimiety, a pedantic thoroughness, more artifice than art. |