| After all, what else can one expect, when a superfluity of worthless crooks abound? |
| Similarly, bigness and a superfluity of bells and whistles may attempt to take the place of durability and reliability in manufactured goods. |
| One senses Brahms's desire from about 1880 to condense his thought and shed all superfluity. |
| In this land of efficiency there is a superfluity of interesting things to be seen. |
| But we can note that at least one commentator has noted its incompatibility with the rest of his system, while another has noted its superfluity. |
| An apparent superfluity may be part of the necessary graciousness, or of the needed attractiveness, of the piece of composition. |
