Sure it was superfluous information but it was still far more appealing than cross-promotions for The Block.
It didn't quite come to blows but the lenient gun laws of the Lone Star state made a mere punch in the head seem superfluous.
Because first we need to sit through the incredibly superfluous scene where Denzel Washington laboriously puts on his special "shooting guns in a shower of money" outfit.
Lovely ladies but, when it comes to fashion, their main consideration is something with "a sense of fun", and while I'm all for fun in regards to, I don't know, sprinkles on a cupcake, I'm less thrilled by their interpretation of the word, which tends to mean superfluous frills, strange collars and, as you say, oddly shaped coats.
And even if series three turns out to be a blazing return to form, it'll still feel a little superfluous.
On the minus side, one can see the first inklings of the tendency to pad things out which came to blight some of his later mainstream work; Banks's fertile imagination meant that he could improvise very easily – Prentice's brother's standup comedy routines feel distinctly superfluous.
Should they prove to be superfluous they have to be scrapped...The principle of subsidiarity needs to be respected more in Europe".
If "libertarian paternalism" is stipulated to be a programme of "choice-preserving decision architecture", to use Messrs Sunstein and Thaler's barbaric jargon, then "libertarian paternalism" is nothing but a profoundly confusing, completely superfluous synonym for anti-paternalism.
Social conservatives complain that for many families, a welfare cheque has replaced the male breadwinner, making him superfluous.
A commission has identified some 5,000 functions of government, 1,000 of which it considers superfluous.
A few religious mystics demonstrated their despondency by sticking swords through their more superfluous folds of flesh.
