Sentence examples for superfluities from inspiring English sources

There may yet be political costs for Mr Putin too.Russian generals have always relied on two strategic superfluities: lots of land and enough people to compensate for the poverty of their equipment, training and feeding.

Warren Buffett, investor (1930–)"The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one.

Stevenson achieved in this work a remarkable richness of tragic texture in a style stripped of all superfluities.

The dramatic unities of time, place, and action were usually observed in Greek tragedy by attempting to make the action complete in itself, without superfluities, within a single circuit of the Sun, and in one location.

In premarket societies, markets were the means to join suppliers and demanders of luxuries and superfluities, but they were not the means by which the provision of essential goods and services was assured.

But it is important to defend both the fictionality of fiction and the "reality hunger" of fiction, and to insist that these are complementary literary needs, not incompatible superfluities.

If Noguchi sculptures seemed superfluous on the pond in the Hill-and-Pond Garden, that superfluity called attention to the carefully placed bridges, temples, and specimen trees already there.

There is also a superfluity of stop signals.

There is no denying, though, that the superfluity could have been better handled, and that the poor freezing wretches immobilised outside deserved better.Inside, temperature and stasis are not a problem; things are simply slower.

The overhaul, led by Mr Detter, exposed the superfluity of many SOE subsidiaries and other holdings, spurring the government to put three times more under the hammer than the nominally more privatisation-friendly previous administration had done.All of which points to a huge opportunity for governments to sell or sweat more assets, and by doing so reduce fiscal stress.

The function of the music was, in the words of the foreword to Alceste, "to serve poetry by means of expression and by following the situations of the story, without interrupting the action or stifling it with a useless superfluity of ornaments".