We can recall the unessential, and we forget the fundamental. From Wordnik.com. [The Epistles of St. Peter] Reference
If they're "unessential" what the he11 are they doing there in the first place. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Start cutting all other "unessential" government programs now, not waiting for next year. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
But all this part of it seemed remote and unessential. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Gatsby] Reference
They make money providing a service that is unessential. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2003-04-01] Reference
But the matter of type is, in this connection, unessential. From Wordnik.com. [The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf A Contribution To The History Of Saga Development In England And The Scandinavian Countries] Reference
And the historical names are apparently unessential; yet they remain. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
After cleaning small game and deer with it I find the gut hook unessential. From Wordnik.com. [SOG HUNTER REVOLVER] Reference
The role of the other in this mode of self-consciousness is not unessential. From Wordnik.com. [Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Consciousness] Reference
For my purpose, the determination of its absolute duration is wholly unessential. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of Arguments] Reference
Any unessential flashbacks with new actors, locals or expensive CGI should be pruned. From Wordnik.com. [Episode 2: What comes next?] Reference
With so many people worried about their jobs, it is tough to sell anything unessential. From Wordnik.com. [Citigroup, MetLife] Reference
Apart from the foregoing, only minor and unessential modifications have been introduced. From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
We do not confront the essentials of the issues because we take issue with the unessential. From Wordnik.com. [Bob McKinnon: Giving Thanks for Action] Reference
Such an edition adds to the difficulties of the work by confusing essential and unessential matters. From Wordnik.com. [Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College] Reference
Observe how the writer seizes on the one or two salient points of each game, omitting what is unessential. From Wordnik.com. [Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School] Reference
The bottom line, if you have unessential travel to Jakarta, the State Department is saying, don't go -- Wolf. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 18, 2005] Reference
Let us leave them and their squabbles over what is unessential, their raking up of old letters and old stories. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to Dead Authors] Reference
I scarce remember more than one lady of title, and but very few lords (and these unessential) in all your tales. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to Dead Authors] Reference
For anyone to get indignant about the cost of something so unessential to life as a vintage pattern is ludicrous. From Wordnik.com. [A Guest Rant on "Why Are Vintage Patterns So Expensive?" - A Dress A Day] Reference
He said: "We are converting a whole age of peasants into connoisseurs of the pleasant but unessential things in life.". From Wordnik.com. [The Challenge of Today's Affluent Society] Reference
Lil Jon yells over a Britney-channeling Miley on this crunk-y, entirely unessential yet inexplicably entertaining redo. From Wordnik.com. [Singles file: Lupe Fiasco f. Bruno Mars, Lissie, R. Kelly vs. Baths] Reference
He nearly ran his business into the ground when an intense aversion to conflict kept him from laying off unessential staff. From Wordnik.com. [Dial Down Emotions] Reference
The trouble was that whenever I came back to consciousness in solitary, unessential and intricate details faded from my memory. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 16] Reference
No spoken words of love may have passed between them, but Donald knew well how unessential these were when heart called to heart. From Wordnik.com. ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference
Correct belief about complex theological questions is unessential to salvation, and as little defini - tion should be made as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The third is the faculty of self-repression, the power to cast away all which, however laboriously acquired, is dramatically unessential. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
But among the attributes common to a class we cannot distinguish between essential and unessential, except by the aid of definition itself. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
She retreated a little way from him, as if she felt he might exact a husband's right of farewell, which the absence of witnesses made quite unessential. From Wordnik.com. [A Husband by Proxy] Reference
They are also free from that dominance of the unessential, which, in life as in literature, is a more innocent but more subtle and perhaps equally ruinous vice. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
It is the mark of good taste to reject that which is unessential, and the "tact of omission," well exemplified in Cézanne, has been found excellently axiomatic. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
The story of the years linking the famished boy to the pudgy red-faced man of the restaurant is unessential, -- an everyday story, sordid, and barren of romance. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
There is a better understanding of values, and of the difference between the essential and the unessential, and we see that not all labor that commands pay is useful labor. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference
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