How To Use Superfluity In A Sentence
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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
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One senses Brahms's desire from about 1880 to condense his thought and shed all superfluity.
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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
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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
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The judicial practice of China should not simply exclude superfluity establishing theories or indispensable technical features and should not make patent protection more flexible.
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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.
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After all, what else can one expect, when a superfluity of worthless crooks abound?
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Nowadays people fill their homes at Christmas with all kinds of decorations: tinsel, colour, lights, reindeers and a superfluity of Santa Clauses.
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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
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In this land of efficiency there is a superfluity of interesting things to be seen.
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Yet it is equally factual that nearly in every part of Zambia there are some semi-precious or precious stones lying in superfluity, waiting to be exploited.
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Yet it did not enter into the composition of his religious faith, and this shows that his religious faith, though entirely free from suspicion of insincerity or ostentatious assumption, was like deism in so many cases, whether rationalistic or emotional, a kind of gratuitously adopted superfluity, not the satisfaction of a profound inner craving and resistless spiritual necessity.
Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)
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Anything that smacked of luxury or superfluity was anathema to him.
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But we can note that at least one commentator has noted its incompatibility with the rest of his system, while another has noted its superfluity.
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In response to my post on idiomatic similes for superfluity and uselessness in German and English, several people emailed to draw my attention to common expressions such as ‘as useless as a chocolate teapot’ or ‘as a chocolate fireguard’.
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Quisque in alio superfluum esse censet, ipse quod non habet nec curat, that which he hath not himself or doth not esteem, he accounts superfluity, an idle quality, a mere foppery in another: like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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So, the moral element was removed from the notion of luxury and superfluity, and the quality of people was linked to the quality of the things around them.
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The word mister, as a prefix, or the word esquire, as a suffix, seemed a superfluity.
Brave Men and Women
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The new director has said that there is a superfluity of staff in the organization, and that cuts must be made.
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Yet it is equally factual that nearly in every part of Zambia there are some semi-precious or precious stones lying in superfluity, waiting to be exploited.
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What had triggered such a superfluity of jubilation, verging on worldwide hysteria?
LORD PRESTIMION
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The new director has said that there is a superfluity of staff in the organization, and that cuts must be made.
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he was shocked by the softness of the atmosphere surrounding the young prince, arising from the superfluity of the femininity that guided him
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In a definitive show of superfluity, they tried selling me tanning lotion.
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Having an outside force influence him was a jarring superfluity.
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Mr. O'Connor simply shook his head, and looked sadly upon his limbs, now shrouded in a superfluity of garments, somewhat resembling a slender thread of water in a shallow summer stream, nearly wasted away, and surrounded by an unproportionate extent of channel.
Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
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After a Sydney-wide ineluctable ostent — for Lo! the sky turned blood red and all took on a Martian hue — the Six Sennight Remedial Treatment for Elimination of Superfluity of the Central Circumferences for the Young At Heart Though Not in Years has arrived through the good offices of the local dak wallah.
Are we meat eaters or vegetarians? Part II | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
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What authority surfeits on would relieve us: 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 Let us revenge this with our pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know I speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge.
The Tragedy of Coriolanus
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This is why fine writing, which is regarded as a superfluity, enters the mainstream media only when it can be translated into the prevailing terms.
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Ever since the late 1960s, there has been a superfluity of vehicles sold in the U.S. that have had pretensions of off-roadability.
Jalopnik
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It was a bright mess of colour and juice, squashiness and superfluity.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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If our contentions are correct, it was entirely unnecessary and would have been a superfluity in the circumstances of this case to have had such a clause.
