Look, an extraneous presenter kept saying, there are so many tweets: look at the spike.
("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).
You need to take a step back, or 5 or 10, and look past this extraneous (if diverting) exercise to assess the actual show and its legacy.
And Mr. Kylian's use of projected shadows and a paneled backdrop through which the dancers endlessly disappear and re-enter to diminishing effect, has the look of handy extraneous gimmickry.
The courts now adopt a purposive approach which seeks to give effect to the true purpose of legislation and are prepared to look at much extraneous material that bears upon the background against which the legislation was enacted.
But Lagerfeld is quoted in the show as "detesting" retrospectives, and the curators believe that couture deserves to be looked at without extraneous or sensational distractions.
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.
What the researchers saw in the "Virginia Woolf" study and in a larger follow-up trial -- that autistic people tend to look at mouths or extraneous objects when nonautistic people look at eyes -- fits in with other classic signs of autism like limited eye contact and difficulty in remembering faces.
Each step, every gesture looks essential, stripped of extraneous nuance, and the Wuppertal ensemble danced on Wednesday night with riveting purity of intention and sculptural clarity.
Nothing is designed to look pretty, and nothing is extraneous.
