Sentence examples for superfluous language from inspiring English sources

I wanted to get better, I wanted to be more coherent, I wanted there to be a greater strength and depth emotionally, and all these things require work – to hone something, to get rid of any superfluous language.

Influenced by Western ideology, he wrote Kagen ("Source of Value"), discussing wealth and poverty, and his key philosophical works, Gengo ("Abstruse Language"), Zeigo ("Superfluous Language"), and Kango ("High-flown Language"), in which he appealed to reason and nature, rather than written doctrine or tradition, as the sources of knowledge.

This section is almost a page in length, is involved, and contains a great deal of superfluous language, including such terms as "sawdust swindle, green articles, green coin, green goods and green cigars". This section could be greatly simplified, and now-meaningless language eliminated.

Hopefully, any other courts that consider this order will throw that obiter dicta (superfluous language in an opinion) into the nearest electronic trash bin.

Cut out superfluous words.

Now Oldboy has been subjected to a superfluous English-language remake by Spike Lee, which is stomach-turningly violent.

But the Government's "practical effects" test is not grounded in the statute, renders other statutory language superfluous, and ignores Congress' decision to grant courts of appeals exclusive jurisdiction only over seven enumerated types of EPA actions set forth in §1369(b)(1).

The development of English into the world's lingua franca suggests that spelling is not an insuperable barrier.Jonathan Lynn GenevaSIR – I wonder just how many words in the English language have a superfluous u between the letters o and r, as in the word "enamoured".

Thus Schopenhauer complains that "Pantheism is only a euphemism for atheism," for "to call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym for the word world" (Schopenhauer 1851, I:114, II:99).

Buchanan's ridiculous statement about Sotomayor's time at Princeton and how she worked to master the English language is a superfluous bit of commentary that he does not even need to make his point.

From highly paid presidents to superfluous administrators, universities are also adopting the language and practices of corporate labor relations, especially when it comes to replacing tenured faculty with poorly paid part-time teachers.