Sentence examples for be seen as superfluous from inspiring English sources

Branding programs may be seen as superfluous.

Supporters in the Legislature said they understood the designation might be seen as superfluous given the tough issues facing the state.

In the low-key contexts of many of these movies, whether they are about young urbanite confusion (as in Andrew Bujalski's films) or hardscrabble lives (as in Ramin Bahrani's), narrative machinations are, often rightly, seen as superfluous or jarring, at odds with characters and social worlds that are portrayed in all their lifelike complexity.

"Fortunately," Douglas Durst said, "this movie will be seen by so few people that litigation would be superfluous".

That kind of progress could be seen on a map and was felt in the gut; metaphors were superfluous.

But on too many corporate boards dissent is still seen as either superfluous or harmful.

The warning is not as superfluous as it sounds: most of the competition-winning crowd look to be around the same age as the man they have come to see.

It is as superfluous as the direct payments program.

The quantification scan might then be considered as superfluous in the limited time available for an examination.

Clearly, the intention is to strip Ibsen of what Stone sees as his superfluous realism to give us the essence of a domestic tragedy.

Complaining would be as superfluous — though also, perhaps, as inevitable — as psychoanalysis".