How To Use superfluity In A Sentence
- Of course, the criticism at Blographia Literaria remains stiff with jargon “Realistic scene-dressing is the provision of quotidian details which, because of their superfluity or excessiveness, demonstrate at least the authorial intention of anchoring the action in reality”, but at least Seal has given up moral preening for a bit. Archive 2010-02-01
- One senses Brahms's desire from about 1880 to condense his thought and shed all superfluity.
- They consist in directness, in easily stirred susceptibility, in inflexible and lively spirits: they point to a superfluity of unexhausted gifts; and over the whole there extends a never-failing charm, a certain glamour of nobility. Nobel Prize in Literature 1924 - Presentation
- If they would yield us but the superfluity, while it were wholesome, we might guess they relieved us humanely; but they think we are too dear: the leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an inventory to particularise their abundance; our sufferance is a gain to them. Act I. Scene I. Coriolanus
- The judicial practice of China should not simply exclude superfluity establishing theories or indispensable technical features and should not make patent protection more flexible.
- As a necessary consequence of the proliferation of the human species men began to depart from the simplicity of the earlier times; they sought for new means to increase the amenities of life and to acquire a superfluity of goods.
- After all, what else can one expect, when a superfluity of worthless crooks abound?
- Nowadays people fill their homes at Christmas with all kinds of decorations: tinsel, colour, lights, reindeers and a superfluity of Santa Clauses.
- As he ploughed his way through the trackless tangle, giving vent the while to a superfluity of oaths, he presently stumbled on the entrance to the fogou, almost precipitating himself into its darkness, so suddenly had he stumbled on it, wading through the ferns. Drolls From Shadowland
- In this land of efficiency there is a superfluity of interesting things to be seen.
