Sentences with word «superfluity»

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

Its basis is the law of England freed from superfluities, technicalities and local peculiarities.

And life, when full of disorder and slackness and vague superfluity, can no more have what we call character than literature can have it under similar conditions.

Most Jews these days suppose resurrection plays a marginal role in Judaism; they see it as a late and rather embarrassing superfluity.

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.

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.

She further challenged him by suggesting that such a statement demonstrated his own «obvious superfluity, and [his] limited grasp of the potential of great literature to transform us and to make us anew.»

Inexplicably, scoring a touchdown against a group of hot dogs, zombies, or robots is even more thrilling that trumping Bear, Lions, and Panthers, especially once players are rewarded with codes which can modify the main game with superfluities like big - head mode.

Expanded Expansion suggests superfluity, and the necessity of things that are unnecessary.

What the government has so far failed to do is to bring the plethora of separate equality legislation, often overlapping and filled with logic - chopping superfluities, into one statute.

Tolstoy writes that «man is created for happiness, that happiness is within him, in the satisfying of natural human needs, and that all unhappiness comes not from lack, but from superfluity.»

For it can recover its certainty only if it is prepared to think through to the bitter end the possibility of its own impossibility or superfluity.

Nor is God an unnecessary ornament added as a beautiful but superfluous extra onto the complete and subtle explanations offered by science, any more than Shakespeare is a superfluity to the play Hamlet.

What is more, the accumulation of possessions demands more attention from the possessor, and a superfluity of time and money encourages their possessors to take it easier on themselves and enjoy the pleasures of leisure, or, if they are overworking, to seek pleasurable distractions.

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.

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.

Rules for the game are embarrassingly simple, a fact the Cambridge devotees manage to conceal under a superfluity of pseudotechnical nomenclature.

Rousseau's work proposed, among other things, taxation measures targeted at the rich and «objects of luxury» (and there was no doubt, he thought, that one could determine what was and what was not a superfluity).

Once again the superfluity of hospitals was deplored.

Today I paired it with a super long pearl necklace and my superfluity pink heels.

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.

Imagine that on Blu - ray for an idea of the superfluity of this direct - from - tape 1.78:1, 1080p transfer.

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.

Interiors too get revised with a touch of superfluity.

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.

All of them were well - known and eminent citizens, burdened with the duties of active business; and the time they gave so freely to the management of the Cooper Union was not the superfluity of leisure.

The superfluity of reward and overload of visual cues become absurd in their excess and begin to smother the very excitement they are meant to induce.

Artists Kader Attia and Jean - Jacques Lebel's transcultural and transgenerational collaborative exhibition attempts to face down and recover from human evil through the superfluity of artistic imagination.