Sentence examples for superfluous detail from inspiring English sources

His paintings give quiet moments of everyday life an Egyptian stillness; they are fixed in an eternal present, shorn of superfluous detail, rendered as if carved in stone.

The rich drama of the clash of the two titans at the Pushkin Festival almost disappears in a welter of mostly superfluous detail.

The joke is told tenderly by Paul Reiser; urbanely by Martin Mull; seductively by the sublime Sarah Silverman; gravely and in loving, superfluous detail by George Carlin; and shrilly, with an emotion bordering on hysteria, by the inspired pixie Gilbert Gottfried.

Now cut back some of that superfluous detail, which documents the academic relics of days gone by.

Modifying your CV for industry use means cutting back on superfluous detail and adding the "sizzle" that gets you the interview.

Teaching requires knowing what to leave out, what counts as superfluous detail and accuracy: 'he who knows best what to omit is the best teacher' and so 'to remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures' (Neurath 1933/1973, 220 and 1945a, 440).

Well over half of the things I saw in Warsaw were so vividly staged – a production of Genet's The Balcony – or so beautifully acted – a stark, bare-stage, modern dress of Three Sisters – that understanding the words almost seemed a superfluous extra detail.

"We ripped out all the superfluous details.

His impulse to move springs from a deep place untainted by superfluous details.

Like those gorgeous old Gaggias: spartan in style and unapologetically mechanical, with no superfluous detailing.

For the most part, though, he artfully unspools his plot's complexities, and seemingly superfluous details come to connect in remarkable ways.