Sentence examples for Surplusage from inspiring English sources

With a connoisseur's acumen, Greenberg developed Bell's famous statement that "significant form" was the most important quality in art and that, as Bell wrote, "the literary and anecdotal content of a work of visual art, however charming and lively it might be, was mere surplusage".

Ms. Huang hammed it up at the piano in excerpts like "On Rules of Writing," in which Myers sets Twain's wry dictum to "eschew surplusage" to a spoof of florid baroque excess.

Boyagoda complains of the "surplusage" of Frazier's prose: "A little girl doesn't hurt her nose," he writes, "she 'pierced the wing of her nostril.' " The implication from this and other examples is that Frazier is overwriting, using unnecessarily flowery language.

Therefore, all reference to it must be thrown out as meaningless surplusage".

In fact, the final pages of "Nightwoods" make for some enjoyable reading, provided your imagination and spirits haven't already been flattened by all those decades of buttocks Frazier has surplusaged at us.