superfluousness

But all I seem to do is demonstrate my superfluousness.

She also frowns upon any sort of superfluousness or inappropriateness in general.

So in the absence of substance, the order of the day was silliness and superfluousness.

The position of third tenor is hereby abolished for its superfluousness."

"But uselessness and superfluousness are things that are necessary."

The Americans in the room, weaned on tales of Vice Presidential superfluousness, laughed.

Only some thirty and summers had he seen; those summers had dried up all his physical superfluousness.

If, on the other hand, the commission balks and settles for something bland and inoffensive, then it will just be advertising its own superfluousness.

Superfluousness Some contenders have made their intentions so clear, so often and for so long that a pre-announcement announcement would really be superfluous.

Chekhov's stated purpose in writing "Ivanov" was to create the ultimate depiction of melancholy, for him a symptom of social superfluousness.

The bathroom was little larger than the ancient tub, but it was adequate, and even contained articles which seemed to Hayden somewhat perplexing and certainly of great superfluousness.

"It's what's not in the lyric," Martin J. Smith writes in a foreword, "rather than what is, that makes the song so intriguing," thus inadvertently establishing the superfluousness of the undertaking.

Beset, like many New Yorkers, with feelings of helplessness and superfluousness, Mr. Zwirner decided to postpone the next exhibition at his gallery and instead organize a show to benefit the victims.

Who can resist that surplus value of necessary superfluousness (without futility there can be no real sense of luxury) represented by the random key that allows you to play tracks in any order you like?

The main effort in this theory is concentrated on exposing the logical superfluousness of the idea of substance as a "metaphysical substratum", which still lingers on in - and complicates - Leibniz's conception of the monad.

In most well behaved logics, cut is unnecessary as an inference rule, though it remains provable as a meta-theorem; the superfluousness of the cut rule is usually presented as a computational process, known as cut elimination.