Sentence examples for for superfluous from inspiring English sources

Eating is also fraught with potential for superfluous stinginess.

"He's not one for superfluous banter," Celler told Devlin.

The philosophy there held that "forms should create a dynamic presence without the necessity for superfluous lines," he said.

After a while, Nachman's fondness for superfluous celebrity quotations -- he cites Jerry Seinfeld pooh-poohing the cliché that all comics are by nature unhappy, for instance -- gets tiresome.

(b) Any case that calls for superfluous testimony from a movie star who's willing to take a selfie with me, which I'll say is "for my grandkids".

If anything, Mr. Cook is almost too bemused by such detail, referring to the human capacity for "superfluous cultural innovation" and society's "elaborate and ultimately arbitrary rules".

O.K., sure, Jay-Z shows up for a superfluous verse, throwing in the telling announcement that it's "time for tuxedos for no reasons".

"Look for the return of what Italian fashionista Gianni Agnelli once called "the need for the superfluous"." More.

In 2004 look, in other words, for the return of what Italian fashionista Gianni Agnelli once called "the need for the superfluous".

As an audience member, you'll be pardoned for feeling superfluous.

Such beauty as it possesses flows from its scorn for the superfluous; as any Bauhaus designer could tell you, form follows function.