The handout is for you, you magnum opus of superfluousness. From Wordnik.com. [Aemilia Scott: An Open Letter to Outraged Conservatives] Reference
So, he gets sent to kill a dragon, given his superfluousness. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Blue Moon Rising - Simon R. Green] Reference
Seriousness or superfluousness are irrelevant distinctions to be made regarding games. From Wordnik.com. [The Game Gene Theory] Reference
It doesn't feel like I've released that much inanity and superfluousness into cyberspace. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Of Me Yet?] Reference
I merely suggested the superfluousness of comparing the general population with world leaders. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Gen. Batiste: Rumsfeld ‘Served Up Our Great Military A Huge Bowl of Chicken Feces’] Reference
Only some thirty and summers had he seen; those summers had dried up all his physical superfluousness. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
In about two years, stories like this will seem quaint, if they don't enrage you at their superfluousness. From Wordnik.com. [Requiring digital cameras and camera phones to make an audible click.] Reference
Design will, in such cases, play no immediate mechanistic explanatory role, suggesting its superfluousness. From Wordnik.com. [Teleological Arguments for God's Existence] Reference
He has about him a suggestion of awkward superfluousness that is subtly consistent with his duplicate announcement of himself. From Wordnik.com. [Etiquette] Reference
The discussion of the superfluousness of a single phrase of the the 1st amendment ignores the argument that the first amendment itself is superfluous. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Free Press Clause:] Reference
Another fault of superfluousness we find in the number of compounded words, where the meaning is obvious, -- such, for instance, as are formed with the adverb out, which the genius of the language permits without limit in the case of verbs. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860] Reference
I wonder if anyone else is like me a bit worried by the blatant superfluousness of the word both in expressions like the one I most recently heard attributed to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton viz ...both America and China need to work together. From Wordnik.com. [On also, too] Reference
Every Freudian idea, it turns out, suffers from several of the following deadly flaws: vagueness (no determinate consequences can be predicted by its use), excessiveness (the explained phenomena can be accounted for more satisfactorily by more plausible suppositions), logical dependency on other dubious notions, and superfluousness (the explained phenomena are themselves illusory products of the theory). From Wordnik.com. [The Unknown Freud: An Exchange] Reference
Adolphus wandered about in a state of conscious and wretched superfluousness. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Mirror] Reference
Sister Maria Joseph, recognising with trembling her superfluousness, withdrew. From Wordnik.com. [Mount Music] Reference
The Losers 'complete superfluousness and half-baked nature than anything else. From Wordnik.com. [News] Reference
Before the elections, he declared the superfluousness of the ministry he now got. From Wordnik.com. [European Tribune] Reference
Only some thirty arid summers had he seen; those summers had dried up all his physical superfluousness. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
But she enjoyed the consciousness of knowing more than he did; she even forgave him his superfluousness. From Wordnik.com. [Mount Music] Reference
Thee either with imperfection, as then unable to generate, or with superfluousness after the generation. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus] Reference
The superfluousness of RN aside, the fact that Comcast is a partner in this venture should concern fans of real news. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Of course not, and it sort of frames Gibson†™ s entire line of questioning in the superfluousness that it deserves. From Wordnik.com. [NewsByUs] Reference
Alvan, looking indolently royal and royally roguish, quoted a verse that speaks of the superfluousness of a faithless lady's vowing bite. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Comedians — Complete] Reference
Moggy surveyed her world rather steadily at all times from that particular outlook, finding in her solitary superfluousness little to deflect her gaze. From Wordnik.com. [Strangers at Lisconnel] Reference
This applied first of all to the looseness of connection already cited between the various elements of the action, and further, to the supposed superfluousness of the. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes] Reference
Convinced of the superfluousness of words, perhaps he confounded them all in the same category, placing the same estimate on a thought nobly expressed as on a sally of coarse wit. From Wordnik.com. [Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories] Reference
If once the opposite views gain the mastery -- for instance, a strict law of nature, the helplessness and superfluousness of all gods, the strict conception of the soul as a bodily process -- all is over. From Wordnik.com. [We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8] Reference
An eminent academician published a paper explaining that the happy citizens of the future would have all the shoes and socks and underwear they needed, "but this in no way presupposes superfluousness or extravagance". From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
But what are governments to do against men who show the uselessness, superfluousness, and perniciousness of all governments, and who do not contend against them, but simply do not need them and do without them, and therefore are unwilling to take any part in them?. From Wordnik.com. [The Kingdom of God Is Within You] Reference
"A unit of the despised majority who is thoroughly convinced of her own superfluousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Dop Doctor] Reference
It may appeal to us as it did to Tennyson, because of "its divine intensity," or it may affect us as it did Charles Eliot Norton by "its powerful exposition of moral penalties and rewards," showing that righteousness is inexorable; or it may interest us because of its solid realism, its pure strength of conception, its surpassing beauty, its vivid imaginative power, its perfection of diction "without superfluousness, without defect.". From Wordnik.com. [Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920] Reference
The fact that Kramer fails to make the connection between Israeli policies and the conditions that lead to economic "superfluousness '' undergirds his logical and analytical ineptitude. From Wordnik.com. [Powered by PNN]
The superfluousness of the show is evident. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
Without superfluousness, without defect. From Wordnik.com. [The Unknown Eros] Reference
So what’s her superfluousness of choice?. From Wordnik.com. [Stung by Bruni Slam, Regulars Defend Midtown Media Hangout Michael's] Reference
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