Sentence examples similar to otiose objects from inspiring English sources

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Consider how Dylan airs her secret love for another character on her blog, only to delete the confession later when, serendipitously, the object of her otiose affection tumbles into the bedroom to gush privately over her foxy roommate.

What Duchamp – unlike Perry – understood, is that the gallery is fundamentally otiose once easel paintings and sculptures cease to be meaningfully unique objects: because if they're capable of reproduction, what need is there for a unique place, time and space in which to display them?

I cannot shed my otiose loung lizard's skin!

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.

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

• 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".

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

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

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