Sentence examples for an unnecessary form from inspiring English sources

You might think the idea of putting your dwarf child through painful, limb-lengthening surgery is an unnecessary form of torture.

"I think that" is often an unnecessary form of hedging because your name appears at the top of your page; what you say is clearly your opinion.

Why introduce a different, unnecessary form of writing?

Not only is it being interpreted in Iraq and abroad as a blatant and unnecessary form of neocolonialism, it also threatens to reap a bitter harvest of anti-Americanism.

He flew tourist class, using the flying time to read up on the next country or cat nap on the floor"....sleeping on the floor of a plane just seems to us an unnecessary severe form of self-denial.

Although the task is just to fill up a simple web form, we noted later on that there are unnecessary form fields in our task.

It is surely the most egregious and unnecessary form of coal extraction: thousands of acres of land are blown up and bulldozed away, as if the land itself is an unpleasant encumbrance without any value whatsoever.

According to a report in the Times, staff were alleged to have used unnecessary forms of restraint, including squeezing a teenager's windpipe so he struggled to breathe.