This isn't just confined to extraneous detail, it slides into the narrative.
Also, and partly at the instigation of the advertising men, we have become a nation dedicated to extraneous eating.
Its early successes, he argued, owed much to extraneous events, like the peasants' revolt and policies that strayed from Marxist orthodoxy.
I, for one, do not want "controversial debate, dialogue, artistic impressions or exhibits referring to extraneous historical events" over my brother's ashes.
The goal is to assure that money is distributed under a transparent protocol focused on wounded families, so that money is not diverted to extraneous causes.
So his buildings naturally look like his sculptures, which look like the chairs and other furniture he designed, which, in belligerent disregard for basic comfort and a Puritanical resistance to extraneous form, express Judd's religion of visual integrity.
Optical cables cost considerably more, but they are immune to extraneous radio frequencies, like those produced by vacuum cleaners and refrigerator compressors, that can create static when using a coaxial connection.
It was years before I realized that if life is a voyage of sorts then the best thing to do is to keep busy in the depths of your little boat — your life — polishing, tuning, cleaning, repairing the engine that is your own inborn strength, without regard to extraneous aids in the form of culture.
With the economy shrinking at an annual rate of nearly 3 percent, Prime Minister David Cameron has pointed to extraneous factors as a prime cause of the government's failure to meet its economic targets, including weeks of appalling weather and working days lost to Queen Elizabeth II's jubilee in June as she celebrated her 60 years on the throne.
But in a series of well-structured and strongly argued chapters, the book does pose searching and sometimes troubling questions about the degree to which the social utility, personal benefits and philosophical ideals promoted by admissions and publicity offices are overstated, overpriced, subordinated to extraneous purposes or distorted by self-perpetuating bureaucracies.
