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But it is very noticeable that many alexandrines, for instance those used by Edmund Spenser as the last line in each stanza of The Faerie Queene, turn out to contain one otiose word.

A study group, surely otiose after the Sutherland Royal Commission, will report in August and proposals will then set out the costs and implications of the change.

On its move from the Royal Court, it has not only shed one of its intervals and some of its more otiose lines: it seems even more to be both an elegant reconstruction and intelligent deconstruction of Hitchcock's own work.

I cannot shed my otiose loung lizard's skin!

The scale of the catastrophe overruled their partiality for sideways glances and unofficial glimpses; their work - blown up to mural size at the New York Historical Society, as if to replace the pulverised, imploded walls of the downed buildings - has an otiose amplitude, an almost obscene beauty.

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".

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