Sentence examples for something superfluous from inspiring English sources

Start reading about words that you'll never know, just because sometimes it's nice to know something superfluous.

While endorsing psychoanalysis, Habermas (1968/1973) vehemently rejects the positions of Nietzsche: the self-annihilation and abnegation of reflection as something superfluous, self-deceptive and meaningless.

It's amazing how buying something superfluous can make you legitimately feel better about yourself.

Throughout history, sideshows have given curiosity seekers opportunities to gaze in wonder at people born with something extra -- a superfluous something or other.

For me, Tarantino had always been the master of a certain type of narcotic euphoria in the cinema, something exquisitely superfluous, something to do with his mastery of surface and style – an ability to make you believe in it and see through it at the same time.

The notion of knowing whether even one person had liked or retweeted something felt not just superfluous but also disruptive to what had become a serene flow of information.

An antipasto of just-cooked mantis shrimp draped elegantly over soft mesclun with a little balsamic vinegar was delicious, and a microcosm of the whole show: local basics, international high-level presentation, with a little something expensive and completely superfluous (the balsamico), because the customers might not understand leaving well enough alone.

Brands, by this definition are anything but superfluous; they mean something.

It's when the proponents of "luxury rap" try to posit their having and spending large amounts of money on superfluous things as something more, however, that I tap the brakes on the imaginary Maybach.

In comedy, editing sharpens something that's already funny, cutting out superfluous material and shaping the rhythm of a performance.

The completely insane and superfluous action sideplot in the film (something about smuggling drugs, blah blah blah, don't worry too much about it) is as nonsensical as action sideplots in comedies generally are.