Sentence examples for have been superfluous from inspiring English sources

But, even if he had been there, his skills as a troll might have been superfluous.

Mr. Gosling and Mr. Huebner offered a performance so colorful and breezy that winds would surely have been superfluous.

Given that case, Mr. Jordan said, it would have been superfluous to indict him for the Jena payoffs.

If their attitude is as unbending as has been made out, this meeting, says the "Daily Mirror," would seem to have been superfluous.

Since the statue was always meant to be displayed in water, legs would have been superfluous and prohibitively expensive, Mr. Crowther said.

The reader might not know what the Sonderverband was, but surely it would have been superfluous to identify it for Rommel.

In fact that question mark had been superfluous for more than a week, since Lance Armstrong won the first of the Tour's two Pyrenean stages at the grim little ski resort of La Mongie.

But they couldn't possibly have been more superfluous than these last two days have been.

Taking such pre-emption as the premise, 136v(a) would thus grant States the authority to regulate the "sale or use" of pesticides, while 136v(b) would superfluously add that States did not have the authority to regulate "labeling or packaging," an addition that would have been doubly superfluous given FIFRA's historic focus on labeling to begin with.

Anyone who has read Ijeoma Oluo's 2016 interview with Dolezal, in which the simple presence of Oluo, an actual black woman, appears to make Dolezal seethe, might agree that this book had been closed, and I did leave the screening of "The Rachel Divide" thinking that the film, while seductive, may have been a superfluous post-mortem.

To mention that would have been somewhat superfluous, anyway, since to get to St. Brigid, mourners had to pass by or over or under any number of buildings, roads and bridges that were financed in good part with federal money Mr. Moakley helped obtain.