| After all, what else can one expect, when a superfluity of worthless crooks abound? |
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| In this land of efficiency there is a superfluity of interesting things to be seen. |
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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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| One senses Brahms's desire from about 1880 to condense his thought and shed all superfluity. |
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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. |
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| Anything that smacked of luxury or superfluity was anathema to him. |
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| The Greek philosopher Democritus was of the latter school, declaring that it arose out of superfluity. |
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| Similarly, bigness and a superfluity of bells and whistles may attempt to take the place of durability and reliability in manufactured goods. |
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| An apparent superfluity may be part of the necessary graciousness, or of the needed attractiveness, of the piece of composition. |
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| A film I could not control in every detail, shot quickly, with a good deal of improvisation, and nothing but words, a superfluity of them! |
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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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| In a definitive show of superfluity, they tried selling me tanning lotion. |
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| As such, he goes straight to the fundamentals, stripping his subject of any superfluity and adornment. |
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| Many initiatives have been launched with the inevitable concomitant risks of duplication, superfluity, overlapping and even confusion. |
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| This short, one-act tragedy goes straight to the point, without flourish, without superfluity. |
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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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| 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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| Having an outside force influence him was a jarring superfluity. |
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| Russia's capital offers a superfluity of history. |
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| There is also a superfluity of stop signals. |
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| If Noguchi sculptures seemed superfluous on the pond in the Hill-and-Pond Garden, that superfluity called attention to the carefully placed bridges, temples, and specimen trees already there. |
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| Whatever the justification for such assertions, it must nevertheless be recognized that neither of these authors suggests that aesthetic appeal or art are synonyms for superfluity. |
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| If such is the case, one can ask abundance but not for superfluity. |
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| A fine line exists, however, between completeness and superfluity. |
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| In Tanzania, a superfluity of donors has lessened the policy and development impacts of most foreign aid, while in Namibia, where the EU is the dominant provider of aid, such impacts have been much more marked. |
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| In such a situation, the function of art-making would lie in stripping away superfluity, in creation that acts as an antidote to the fabrication of lack and incompleteness. |
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| He approached his works with an almost mathematical precision, reducing the subject to an interplay of lines and colours, contemptuous of superfluity. |
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| Gone were the aesthetic superfluity, the tiny pictures and clichéd descriptions. The new Kuoni catalogues were elegant magazines with beautifully written texts, generous layouts and a clear visual language. |
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| Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness. |
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| Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. |
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