Sentence examples for extraneous element from inspiring English sources

The only extraneous element was the evening's opener, Mr. Ax's extroverted performance of Schubert's Impromptu No. 3 in G flat (D. 899).

"Like last year's 'pitch count' directives, QuesTec interjects an extraneous element into the game and pressures umpires to compete with the machine rather than giving their full attention to calling the game as they see it unfold before them".

All kinds of extraneous elements are added to the story.

Thursday's "Tap International" program, also at the Duke, nearly drowned in extraneous elements like saxophones and a Carmen Miranda getup.

It is terse and elegant, with a minimal amount of horns and extraneous elements; Ms. O'Connor's undisguised Irish accent and obvious conviction make it an imposing act of pop interpretation.

D2 is a game that is good at all the extraneous elements of a video game but bad at the one central necessity -- that it be entertaining to play.

The clockmaker deals in absolute precision, working to a design that must forgo all extraneous elements; the novelist can't afford to be so pernickety, but must always venture into the unknown, and create the impression of untrammelled life.

Just as he would with a new piece of music, he focuses on the plot's key features, runs alternative variations to see how they play, eliminates extraneous elements and searches for coherence.

Like French filmmakers who fell in love with the bleak world view and darkly cynical protagonists of film noir, the designers of Isabelle got rid of extraneous elements like interesting plots and clever dialogue.

Eric Ripert's cuisine is like that: it's so focused, and so devoid of extraneous elements, that to recall one aspect of a dish is to call up the whole thing.

For expression is never logical, but always affective, that is, lyrical and imaginative; and hence it is never metaphorical but always "proper"; it is never simple in the sense of lacking elaboration, or ornate in the sense of being loaded with extraneous elements; it is always adorned with itself, simplex munditiis.