Sentence examples for so superfluous from inspiring English sources

But rarely has a figure rendered satire so superfluous.

I have never felt so superfluous in my life".

Later he played along a little, but rarely has live music seemed so superfluous.

Celebrity input seemed so superfluous that the show could readily have been renamed Pointless Celebrities.

While Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss did find herself in a boy triangle of sorts, it was so superfluous to her main objective, that it barely registered at all.

His existence in the story is so superfluous he might as well be absent, and the same could be said for Salander's queerness, mostly forgotten, along with her feminist brand of vengeance, shown early in a potent introduction then abandoned almost immediately.

This is why it is so often superfluous for the critic to write in the first person: "I" is always already there.

From a strictly grammatical standpoint, it makes little sense, seeing as the Wolof, if translated, would already mean "it's pretty" or "it's beautiful," rendering the English "it's so" completely superfluous.

There would be no need to complain of literary biographies — so often superfluous, bloated, and carping — if they were all as good as Peter J. Conradi's "Iris Murdoch: A Life" (Norton; $35).

Desha says European investors for the project baulked at the idea of a building without airconditioners so, though superfluous, they were bolted on after construction to assuage investors' fears.

By John Updike There would be no need to complain of literary biographies — so often superfluous, bloated, and carping — if they were all as good as Peter J. Conradi's "Iris Murdoch: A Life" (Norton; $35).