Sentence examples similar to otiose complexity from inspiring English sources

I cannot shed my otiose loung lizard's skin!

First, complexity.

Less otiose, by far, is the new album by Van Morrison, "Pay the Devil" (Lost Highway).

To the playwright George S. Kaufman, sentiment was an otiose emotion that actually made him shiver.

Almost otiose is the personified heaven, Dyaus, who most often appears as the sky or as day.

But note that even in this beautiful passage, "in delight", "suddenly" and "already" are otiose.

Their policies are otiose, since there are better ways to help the poor, such as direct cash transfers.

• To the Editor: The very cogent editorial listed several otiose weapons systems.

As so often these days, the soloist's encore was entirely otiose.

In the Midlands and the south, they also issued otiose "yellow warnings".

COMPLEXITY Where is Benghazi?