Sentence examples for rather superfluous from inspiring English sources

The closeness of the occupants makes the separate-but-unequal virtues of the Buick's dual temperature controls rather superfluous.

Definitely McCoy's, which are sold on being a heavy-duty, satisfying crisp, in a rather superfluous way.

It disregarded humanity and tradition in its thirst for economic efficiency, a slender steel serpent with the rather superfluous army to guard him.

It does mean that the Greek election is a rather superfluous exercise that has done more harm than good, but that is a minor feature in a landscape with much more difficult terrain still to cross.

"Prince" gets its rather superfluous star power from a cast that includes Ralph Fiennes as Ramses; Sandra Bullock as Moses' sister, Miriam Jeff Goldblumm (one of the few really identifiable voices here) as Aaron, and Steve Martin and Martin Short as two jokey minor characters whose clowning is kept minimal.

At least, it is the figure calculated by a group of researchers at the School for Information Systems and Management at the University of California, Berkeley, led by Peter Lyman and Hal Varian.Estimating the world's information output appears a rather superfluous undertaking.

The best performance is by Angela Roberts, who doubles as Lori's friend Darlene and a girl named Mike, who is a rather brief, superfluous presence in the first and last scenes.

Yet, all of this proves a rather jejune, superfluous exercise for the columnist.

If matters were that simple, however, torture would be so rare that covenants abolishing it would be superfluous rather than ineffectual.

I got scared; I got lucky; I got fucked up on drugs that make sex superfluous rather than drugs that make sex inevitable, unmerciful, and unmanageable; I developed avant-garde sexual tastes; I had sex only sporadically; I got older; I grew uninterested.

More so, Occupational Health was not wholly integrated and used as a means of making positive changes to the workplace, but rather as a superfluous last resort that employers tried to avoid.