Research has shown that minorities consume bottled water more often than white Americans, and spend a greater proportion of their income (about 1%, compared to the 0.4% white Americans dole out) on this superfluous commodity every year.
The playful array of voices and tones makes for an inventive ride, but the constant shifting of gears can be distracting, especially since some of the alternate chapters seem either sketchy or superfluous compared with Daru's dark, solidly realized point of view.
In "The Novels of Jane Austen", published anonymously in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859, Lewes praised Austen's novels for "the economy of art... the easy adaptation of means to ends, with no aid from superfluous elements" and compared her to Shakespeare.
Some are so well known as to seem superfluous ("The Road Not Taken," or Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"), yet it's worth remembering that children themselves are new.
KEN AULETTA: Today, everyone struggles to avoid becoming superfluous, from agents to publishers to travel agents.
Fresh pancreatectomy samples that were superfluous to diagnostic needs were obtained from the University Health Network Tumour Tissue Bank according to institutional human ethical guidelines.
ReachNow's chief executive, Steve Banfield, in an interview here, compared the concept to Netflix, the video service that has helped render ownership of DVDs superfluous.
Samples are often compared with respect to prevalence rates (e.g., rates of diagnoses between the 1997 and 2007 Australian National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing [ 28, 33, 34]) and in these instances the challenges associated with pooling individual participant data may be superfluous.
MP3 compression, in particular, squeezes out certain sounds believed to be superfluous to the ear.
(Otherwise, the first three words would be superfluous, subject to the Imagist razor).
