In fact, Munro's fiction is full of details that initially seem distracting or extraneous, because life is like that, and especially life as we recall it.
Moreover, she said, the agent insisted on extraneous requirements, like life insurance coverage.
Standing on the edge of the fiscal cliff, in these excruciating moments before we get pushed off or pulled back, we have a brief opportunity to take serious stock of what's really important and what's possibly extraneous to our life as a nation, not merely fiscally but also morally.
As she wains, watch the excess and extraneous aspects of your life fall away.
Winningham feels the most underused here, perhaps because Rita is becoming extraneous in George/Valentina's life as well.
In scenes where they are talking about doing really horrific things, like killing innocent people, they spend most of their time talking about extraneous things, as though the life and death doesn't matter.
The bestseller The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up teaches that a life free of extraneous stuff, leaves you room to respect and treasure what brings you joy.
But what gives the tale its deep resonance is the space it offers - without any sense of extraneous bulk - to the daily life going on around the couple: political meetings, the draining of cotton fields, a child killed by a cobra.
But tons of verbiage come between, and too much of it has to do with extraneous matters in Nick's personal life.
Mr. Bell testified that she began a campaign of terror against him after learning about his sexual orientation, and told the jury about seemingly extraneous details of Mrs. Helmsley's life in the Park Lane.
