Sentence examples for is superfluous in from inspiring English sources

Body hair -- once needed for warmth -- is superfluous in a world of masculine face creams, manicures and pedicures.

Doug Simpson Todmorden, West Yorkshire If the circumflex is superfluous in many situations (Pass notes, 8 February), when are we going to make the same sensible decision about the apostrophe which, in many contexts, simply isnt necessary?

Notice also that the assumption of sub-additivity ( ϕ 2 ) is superfluous in most of the published results (see, e.g., [27]).

In fact, the condition 'f is F-weakly commuting for v ∈ C ( f, F ) and g is G-weakly commuting for v ∈ C ( g, G ) ' is superfluous in Theorem 2.3 of [24].

It is a decadent device that is superfluous in almost every detail; an emblem of the pure excess that has turned our modern society's beating heart into a putrid mess of rotting flesh.

As this capacity is superfluous in the perpetual Azolla symbiosis, gene clusters related to carbon uptake and metabolism may be subject to repeated deleterious mutations due to accelerated molecular evolution in the host-restricted environment.

"[My mother] did her best to make me understand that I was superfluous in her life.

The occasional snippets of grown-up dialogue are not accompanied by subtitles, which would be superfluous in any case.

Many states might be competitive, meaning that they might plausibly be won by either candidate, but most of their electoral votes would be superfluous in an election that truly came down to the last vote.

When Mr Tendulkar walks out to bat for India, as he has 780 times, seething stadiums erupt, boiling over with cacophonous Sachin-love (as a means of identification, Mr Tendulkar's surname has long been superfluous in India).

And while it was superfluous in determining that party's nominee, 220,000 Pennsylvania Republicans (out of their total turnout of 807,000) were moved to cast ballots for Mike Huckabee or, more numerously, Ron Paul.