Sentence examples for a superfluous addition from inspiring English sources

The Touch, however, is a superfluous addition to Apple's iPod roster.

Heidegger's most famous presentation of Van Gogh's painting pivots again on an ambiguous use of "nothing," to which Heidegger now adds an elliptical, intimating locution ("And yet…") in order to encourage his audience to hear a subtle shift and so notice the meaning suggested by his otherwise superfluous addition, "and nothing more".

Thus, it disheartens me and my fellow campaigners that while these workers are being systematically discriminated against and exploited, there are plans to spend millions of dollars on superfluous additions such as a domed practice field for the football team, hundreds and thousands of flowers around Grounds, and countless other trivialities.

But the very structure of development is a brake on innovation: from mass builders that insist on bland design so as to appeal to a wide market; to planners that insist on "in keeping" pastiches of earlier domestic technology leading to superfluous additions such as stick-on fake chimneys; to local authorities that trouser huge payments for enabling developers to throw up flats rapidly.

Models, they hold, are superfluous additions that are at best of pedagogical, aesthetical or psychological value (Carnap 1938, Hempel 1965; see also Bailer-Jones 1999).

"It's a superfluous expense".

It is a superfluous piece of evidence.

This, however, is a superfluous fact.

Rarely did he use a superfluous word.

Turgenev called Ivanov a "superfluous man".

Their verbiage sustains a superfluous metaphysical apparatus.