"The Untouchables" boasted a strong cast, handsome production values and a gritty David Mamet screenplay, but it remained a freeze-dried afterthought, a superfluous Technicolor money machine trying to replace a classic black and white TV series.
Nikos Godas, the mayor of the western Greek town of Ioannina, criticized the Athens Olympics organizers, saying they wasted billions in taxpayers' money building a superfluous, wind-ridden rowing site.
Burning money on superfluous military adventures or an arms race only makes the economic meltdown worse.
It's when the proponents of "luxury rap" try to posit their having and spending large amounts of money on superfluous things as something more, however, that I tap the brakes on the imaginary Maybach.
Tipping, originally rejected by Americans as an anti-democratic gesture that validated class distinctions, was superfluous, and therefore saved customers money.
They're poor because they waste their money on stupid, superfluous shit that does nothing to better their quality of life, because they still complain incessantly about being depressed. .
Talk about a killer app for all those electronic connectivity devices yes, the ones you heard from those fast money traders were redundant and superfluous.
He said that the Energy Department already oversees the program that will direct the money to PPG, making the 20-day review superfluous, and that competitive bidding would be mostly pointless.
It seems like no matter how carefully you spend your money, you're always getting hit with some superfluous surcharge.
And for the U.S. it's totally superfluous, as we have no trouble convincing foreign investors that their money will be legally protected.
