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"otiose" Definitions
  1. having no useful purpose

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Debate is otiose, because we reject each other's facts and have grown weary of each other's arguments.
With the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rendered otiose by Republican control, expect Waters to step into the breach and start taking names.
Even the otiose Auto-Tune, which he drops at the end, sounds fabulous, all sad and gloopy and mechanical and alone and alive.
Insisting that every branch also have a vault and a cash-handling teller would be otiose, Torstendahl told me, especially given the sharp decline in cash transactions in the past decade.
Other times, helped along by the accounts of my Jesuit schoolteachers, I imagined him waiting, otiose and slightly bored—restless, as he had often seemed to be in life—in the long, cosmic queue of Purgatory.
The glowing keyboards, dinky flutes, angry rhythm guitar parts, assembled sound effects, and the like are incorporated poorly, failing to mesh with the grander rock structures that subsume them, sticking out like otiose clip-on accessories.
Moreover, the verbal pleasures here are undeniable — guess what, Clark is a really good writer, and her lyrics are so concisely worked and so bound up in metaphorical device she doesn't indulge in a single otiose detail.
Nonetheless, The Cars defined a stark, unsettling sensibility, and their second album, Candy-O (1979), was the realization: it cuts the debut's otiose elements (rockabilly, power pop's wholesome cheer, overdubbed background singing) and leaves something sparer, scarier, more mechanical.
The contrary position holds that Pepper was a surrender to artifice, a fancifully precious compendium of ostensibly clever but ultimately curdling studio effects that obscured the songs underneath, hiding their weaknesses, piling on the strings and the harps and the clarinets and the tape hisses and the jinglejangle and the otiose noises until the end result stiffly topples over.
Any name rapper can hire a cadre of otiose guest producers and/or vocalists to weigh down their project; few can sound this weighed down, stunned, out of it, in the grain of the voice as well as the beats, what with all the hypnotic synth trickle and insinuatingly eerie keyboards and drippy, druggy hazy daze.
Salve, nec minimo puella naso nec bello pede nec…(Catullus 43) as well as tricolon and alliteration. He is also very fond of diminutives such as in Catullus 50: Hesterno, Licini, die otiose/multum lusimus in meis tabellis – Yesterday, Licinius, was a day of leisure/ playing many games in my little note books.
His principal consecrator was Bishop James Yorke Bramston assisted by Bishop Peter Augustine Baines, O.S.B., and Bishop Robert Gradwell. The investigation, however, was rendered otiose by the impromptu flight of Slater from Port St. Louis in June 1832 and his death from exposure a few days later. Instead of investigating Slater, Morris was appointed to succeed him.
The Guardian said the work was "a history of ideas, not a historical narrative; it is an interpretation, not a description of what happened". The review praised Barzun for writing in "a light, lucid, epigrammatic style", but described his judgments of historical figures as "at best otiose and...[at times] ludicrously banal."Stephen Moss, "The Age of Entropy". The Guardian, March 2, 2001.
Retrieved 15 September 2018. In 2017, Rose Wild wrote in The Times that the use of "He never married" began to die out in the late 1980s, "but not before it had become absurd". She noted its "otiose" use in the paper's obituaries for Robert Mapplethorpe (died 1989) and Danny La Rue (died 2009)."Don't read too much into the lives of bachelors", Rose Wild, The Times, 16 September 2017, p. 34.
Oragadam will soon become one of the largest Automobile hubs in the world. International Automobile majors like Daimler AG, Renault–Nissan, Komatsu have set up their car manufacturing plants here and will use it as a base for sourcing for their international markets, apart from supplying to meet the fast-growing Indian market. One of the otiose Clubs "The Chennai Corporate Club" is also located nearby. The Tamil Nadu government is building the Rs. 300 crores Oragadam Industrial Corridor Road.
Kunapipi, also spelt Gunabibi, is a mother goddess and the patron deity of many heroes in Australian Aboriginal mythology. She gave birth to human beings as well as to most animals and plants. Now a vague, otiose, spiritual being, "the old woman" once travelled across the land with a band of heroes and heroines, and during the ancestral period she gave birth to men and women as well as creating the natural species. She could transform herself either into a male or female version of the Rainbow Serpent.
He says that assertions mediated by these forms are not distinct in meaning from the corresponding direct assertions. > They are phrases we sometimes use for emphasis or for stylistic reasons, or > to indicate the position occupied by the statement in our argument. So also > we can say 'It is a fact that he was murdered' or 'That he was murdered is > contrary to fact'. In the same context and by the same token, Ramsey cites the verbal forms (3) 'It is a fact that ___' and (4) '___ is contrary to fact' as further examples of dispensable, otiose, redundant, or purely stylistic verbiage.
The Nair Service Society (NSS) was founded in 1914. Nossiter has described its purpose at foundation as being "... to liberate the community from superstition, taboo and otiose custom, to establish a network of educational and welfare institutions, and to defend and advance Nair interests in the political arena." Devika and Varghese believe the year of formation to be 1913 and argue that the perceived denial of 'the natural right' of upper castes to hold elected chairs in Travancore, a Hindu state, had pressured the founding of the NSS. As late as 1975, the NSS still had most of its support in the Central Travancore region,Fuller (1975) pp. 303–304.
In his writings, Pietro Giordani demonstrated a strict adherence to linguistic classicism, to an eloquence balanced and controlled in form. His rhetoric is rarely hollow or empty; there is rigor, participation in cultural and educational problems; there is strong argument against prejudice and obscurantism; there is an aggressive but not thoughtless or banal anti-clericalism; there is an invitation to participate in and comprehend one's own times through the study of history and economics. For this reason, the idea of literature in Giordani, in spite of the common classicist roots, is very different from that of Monti: the literary enterprise must consist in the affirmation of virtue, the search for truth, and civil education. Poetry must not be an otiose pastime, science must be studied before Latin, teaching must integrate both manual and intellectual work, the study of contemporary history must come before that of antiquity.
The album received a mixed reaction from critics. In a mixed review, The Quietus highly praised Davison, describing him as "absolutely the right choice for the band [...] Davison sings his bits, often with Squire backing him up, and those are often the best (or prettiest) parts of the album — Davison sounds like he's about to burst into tears on half these songs", but criticized the lack of energy, especially from White and Squire, and the tempo of the songs considered too slow. Summarized the Financial Times, "here come prog rock relics Yes to show the youth what proper boredom is, the kind of boredom that comes with bland guitar solos, chugging drums, lumbering time changes and otiose lyrics about "getting to know the empty space/Beneath the surface of common days." The Guardian stated "the album [has] a rich, 70s sound, and the material is solid enough, flavoured with Steve Howe's distinctive, rippling guitar and Geoff Downes' retro keyboard.

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