superfluity

Each element beyond the central character study, which is itself only shallowly conceived, ends up another superfluity in a storm of them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

That tiny bit of superfluity is part of brunch’s appeal.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

Thankfully, YA novelist Robin Wasserman’s 2016 adult debut, “Girls on Fire,” boasts a superfluity of violently intense female friendship to tide us over until Season 3.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2023

But, a little paradoxically, the collection is most valuable when it’s proving its own superfluity: The best material is what made it onto the completed record.

From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2022

But he has now been rehabilitated, as the Jesuits have no superfluity of theologians, and is to take part in drawing up the Schemata.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger

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

I found that the absence of many-colored effects and of all superfluities produced a wonderful freshness.

From An Autobiography by Igor Stravinsky