Sentence examples for superfluous things from inspiring English sources

(Such things in my house, superfluous things, baubles, were thrown out as clutter.

"I did all the superfluous things very well, and I did the important things badly," Harrington said.

Montesquieu thought that commerce, which renders "superfluous things useful and useful ones necessary," would "cure destructive prejudices" and promote "communication among peoples".

Ancient China didn't have a phrase for "rite of passage," but if one existed, it would probably revolve around mastering appreciation of what the Chinese called superfluous things.

Craig Clunas discusses them in "Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China" (University of Illinois Press, 1991).

During the later part of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), the Chinese produced a literature of connoisseurship whose texts had titles like "Eight Discourses on the Art of Living" and "Treatise on Superfluous Things".

After its release, album sleeves were no longer "a superfluous thing to be discarded during the act of listening, but an integral component of the listening that expanded the musical experience".

One minute, it seems, Ken is amazed and flattered that Rothko would ask his opinion about anything; the next, he is disdainfully declaring the older man's art superfluous and saying things like "At least Andy Warhol gets the joke".

Nor, if we're talking citizenship, is there any more beautiful model of welfare governance than Lear's "Oh reason not the need, our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous... .....

"The only way to figure out what was really necessary for us to be happy and what's superfluous was to cut things out then reassess," says Mr. Frugalwoods.

Variety is a delusion, and all the words we have for the many existent things are superfluous.