Sentence examples for superfluous exercise from inspiring English sources

Not one of Coulter's arguments is original to her; each is cribbed from the conservative press, which is why searching for specific passages that she has plagiarized, as Maguire and others have done, is a superfluous exercise.

It does mean that the Greek election is a rather superfluous exercise that has done more harm than good, but that is a minor feature in a landscape with much more difficult terrain still to cross.

They taught me that embracing the acts and choices of others is a superfluous exercise.

Yet, all of this proves a rather jejune, superfluous exercise for the columnist.

Or, as Donald Clark writes: "It's a peacock's tail, the luxury of being able to ignore utility for superfluous acquisition of a useless and purely academic exercise.

So Rohmer's lack of direction on the set was the product of a meticulous mutual understanding that developed over the course of preparatory work, which rendered the exercise of on-set directorial authority superfluous.

This result has been brought about by the positive refusal of the Premier, Tang-Shao-Yi, to consider the bankers' tactless proposal that foreign military attachés exercise co-operative control over the disbandment of superfluous troops.

Third, younger and older adults need not use the same resource pools to achieve the same level of performance, rendering the entire exercise focused on a single resource pool rather superfluous.

Nine CDS were found only in the fish/frog isolates and may be assumed to be superfluous for M. ulcerans infections in humans, although care needs to be exercised as there were only five fish and frog isolates on which to base this analysis.

That sequence — a practice exercise for Ariadne, the apprentice dream architect played by Ellen Page — is entirely superfluous to the plot of "Inception" and essential to its atmosphere.

These additions, however, do nothing to alter or enhance or spin the basic story, and they ultimately feel superfluous, ratifying the reader's sense that the novellas in this volume are little more than exercises -- albeit, often polished exercises -- in writing for the sake of writing.