superfluity

Example Sentences

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Claims of necessity or superfluity imply some end goal, but it’s rare to see one explicitly stated.

From The Guardian

The skull and its accompanying void inhabit a more abstract reality, a statement stripped of all superfluity.

From New York Times

Yet, what is most striking about Wolff’s book is its superfluity.

From Washington Post

The sleeping docks, the decrepit industries, the disused railroads: at such places, the city is shorn of all superfluity and reduced to its essentials, as in a play by Beckett.

From The New Yorker

“We are not against beauty; we are against superfluity,” Khrushchev said, ordering state architects to try to make them as pleasing as possible, given their limits.

From Washington Post