Sentence examples for overplus from inspiring English sources

This method of increasing the stature of man, the species, by peopling other worlds with the overplus of this world's numbers was proposed many years ago by Professor J. B. S. Haldane in his Possible Worlds and again in the Last and First Men of Olaf Stapledon.

This group, led by unfrocked priests & unchurched ministers, protested the commercialism of Christmas, by passing out leaflets calling upon Christmas shoppers to limit individual gifts to $2.50 & give the overplus to the poor.

This mystery, which Otto called the holy rather than the sacred, is so profound Otto wrote of a "clear overplus of meaning"—that it compels not only respect but also reverence, which is the wellspring of religious thought, behaviour, and culture.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which maintains its original popularity and even notoriety, has in overplus the traditional Gothic ingredients, with its weird God-defying experiments, its eldritch shrieks, and, above all, its monster.