superfluity
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Though much of the action is muddled by a superfluity of angles and edits, Sten looks very good whenever we get more than a glimpse of her in motion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Building on her doctoral research on homeschooling in Los Angeles County, Ms. Lane is careful to note the limits of existing studies and the superfluity of misinformation surrounding her topic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
That tiny bit of superfluity is part of brunch’s appeal.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
The sequel serves up plenty for specialists to chew on, not least a Jack Nicholson look-alike—insofar as that’s possible—behind the hotel bar, yet these semi-reconstructions betray an odd sense of superfluity and strain.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 8, 2019
Hysteria also, aside from its wealth of individual features, has a superfluity of common typical symptoms that appear to resist any facile historical methods of tracing them.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
And Kuo’s sluggish direction, alongside the superfluities of Shekar’s script and the cast’s aerobic attempts to breathe life into inconsequential characters and static scenes, makes the two-hour show feel interminable.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2020
But now it feels more like a costly necessity, one whose exorbitant price tag is thinly justified by superfluities like face recognition, wireless charging, and a snazzier camera.
From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2019
A good novel is art’s closest equivalent to a human being—by nature a concoction of surprises, contradictions, and superfluities.
From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2015
Of course, I didn’t bother with superfluities like gold pieces or twenty-sided dice, but I did think upon the same factors.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2012
Divesting this conception of all superfluities, and reducing it to its most abstract shape, we see that Life is definable as the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones
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Walden
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