It's a book that astonishes you on every page, not just with its brilliance, but with its precision: there's not a single extraneous word.
(Corrects to remove extraneous word "has" in second paragraph).
I have been assiduous in suppressing extraneous detail; the book is a high-altitude survey and, since I am not a macroeconomist, reflects an outsider's perspective but there can be value in such a perspective.
"You want to get rid of any extraneous papers or books that don't need to be on display," she said.
The extraneous material blurs the book's focus, giving it a casualness which undermines the profundity of Booth's journey.
Textbooks companies cram books with extraneous material in order to meet the varying academic standards of different states, making them more difficult to use effectively.
"The Perfect Storm" is so eager for its big waves to arrive as soon as possible that it shoehorns in what feels like an extraneous subplot, lifted from the book, about the rescue of another vessel and the crash of a Coast Guard helicopter.
Nolan seemed to trim all extraneous fat from the comic book movie template, handing the caped crusader a humanising backstory that intelligently explained his capacities as the byproduct of huge wealth and near-psychotic levels of determination to perfect himself as a martial unit.
Moggach's first script was closest to Austen's book, but later versions trimmed extraneous storylines and characters.
More pejoratively, the book feels constantly weighed down by extraneous details that at times can feel more like Wikipedia than assiduous worldbuilding.
