Sentences with phrase «in superfluity»

Giving alms is meaningless, if there is no sharing in superfluity.

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For this end, wee must be knitt together in this worke as one man, wee must entertaine each other in brotherly Affeccion, wee must be willing to abridge our selves of our superfluities, for the supply of others necessities, wee must uphold a familiar Commerce together in all meeknes, gentlenes, patience and liberallity, wee must delight in each other, make others Condicions our owne, rejoyce together, mourne together, labour and suffer together, allwayes haveing before our eyes our Commission and Community in the worke, our Community as members of the same body, soe shall wee keepe the unitie of the spirit in the bond of peace, the Lord will be our God and delight to dwell among us as his owne people and will commaund a blessing upon us in all our wayes, soe that wee shall see much more of his wisdome, power, goodnes and truthe than formerly wee have beene acquainted with.

The «brotherly affection,» the willingness to «abridge ourselves of our superfluities, for the supply of others necessities,» that Winthrop spoke of in the early Puritan covenant seemed again to live in the revolutionary ranks.

She had borne children, nursed, fed and washed them, sewn, cooked and swept, eaten little, traveled not at all in her years, suffered much pain, never known the ease of superfluity; but her back had been straight, her ways straight, her eyes quiet and her manners gentle.

«As particularly those fruits and effects of pride that discover themselves in the vanity and superfluity of apparel; which I took too much delight in.

We must entertain each other in brotherly affection; we must be willing to abridge ourselves of our superfluities, for the supply of others» necessities; we must uphold a familiar commerce together.

If a system is wrong which maintains an idle man in bare necessaries, a system is much more wrong which maintains an idle man in great superfluity, and any system which allows the inheritance of wealth on the great scale is open to criticism on this score.

You do not have to go complete the superfluity of becoming down someone if the feeling do not appeal to you, and back off in a refined subtle way.

When, as a guest on «Inside The Actors Studio,» Gabriel Byrne was prompted for his favorite phrases, he chose prolix, an adjective connoting a superfluity of words, and bollocks, the Hibernian slang for testicles that can mean claptrap, rubbish, a series of lies, an idiotic person, or, in active form, the feat of fouling something up.

This kind of stylistic, self - conscious excess could be glorious, as in his underappreciated film «Domino» (2005), about a gorgeous bounty hunter (Keira Knightley), in which the superfluity of the visuals matches that of Richard Kelly's screenplay.

He is played in the movie by Josh Brolin and a superfluity of CGI chin dimples.

Sadly, with Popeye acting the ugly American in the City of Lights, the object proves its own superfluity.

Never mind the fact that the movie stops dead in its tracks just to explain such superfluity.

To put it simply, any degree of redundancy, superfluity, repetition, or information overload may result in persuasion and distraction, and the essence of learning being lost.

From Madden NFL 12's jerky post-play animations to the clunky artificial intelligence in NHL 12's Be A GM mode, often the superfluities haven't always matched the quality of the core game.