Surely the purpose of a book is not to present a methodically linear narrative, never wavering from its course, with no superfluous commentary set off by commas.
I talk about my visit to Yad Vashem, the museum of the Holocaust, and the sense that its sculpture and painting seem superfluous when set against the bare facts.
Sometimes, like any box set, the stories deliver twists that seem superfluous.
We can conclude that the general CASE strategy utilizes processes to eliminate "superfluous" isomers from the full isomer set by imposing different structural constraints produced from the molecular spectra and a priori information (sample origin, chemical rules, etc).
We started from the first CD4 count recorded, with P set to 0.05 (i.e. re-testing was deemed superfluous before having at least a 5% chance to reach the treatment initiation threshold).
But when I set about to recreate this standard dish I found the sauce superfluous.
Finally, having just one meaningful candidate per set U t ( x ̄ ), also the K-best approach becomes superfluous.
According to Leo E. Connor's 1992 "History of the Lexington School for the Deaf," its current name, the trustees set out to build a purely utilitarian structure, "without any attempt at superfluous ornamentation".
It even went one louder than Locog by setting off a mildly superfluous burst of fireworks every time a race finished.
A classic Russian figure, the "superfluous man" who is powerless and doesn't fit in, first appeared in the character of Pechorin in Lermontov's novel, "A Hero of Our Time", set in the Caucasus.
