And while the hand gestures provide vivid spots of color in a creamily flowing whole, the gestures often look extraneous.
Two months ago, Bain Capital Partners, the Carlyle Group and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, agreed to buy the supply unit from Home Depot, which was looking to shed extraneous units and concentrate on its core retail chain.
"It seems to me that if you're going through an area with a fine-toothed comb looking for evidence, you shouldn't admit extraneous people," said Roberto Centaro, the president of the parliamentary anti-Mafia commission.
All this is happening while Google is tightening the belts of its extraneous projects as it looks to convert them into real businesses.
("Actually I'm highly logical, which allows me to look past extraneous detail. And perceive clearly that which others overlook," she corrected in Deathly Hallows).
The return order form is usually hidden among all these pieces of extraneous paper so that you will have to spend a few seconds more looking for what you really want to find.
When looking into the camera, the artwork should fill the viewfinder, eliminating extraneous material, such as the wall of a living room where it was hung or the easel on which it was photographed.
Mr. Mosley, a teacher at the Alvin Ailey school, makes dances that are comfortably rooted in the jazz and modern-dance idioms, though he has a fondness for the occasional extraneous-looking gesture or move.
"They are looking at the curriculum; postponing the kinds of things that are seen as extraneous, like school construction; increasing student fees for extracurriculars.
The route could be navigated with just three commands, and, looking over his shoulder, I saw that he had put in a bunch of extraneous steps.
The only extraneous detail she will give about them is that he was very understanding when she came back from the set of The Virgin Queen, looking like a freak with her shaved head, because "he knows what the job is".
