The State of the Union was dreary and superfluous before Trump and will be dreary and superfluous after he's gone.
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It's completely superfluous to the game, which is otherwise enjoyable.
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The use of the word "superfluous" compounds the initial error.
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"It's not only removing costs that are superfluous," he said.
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That audibly appealing kickstand might sound superfluous for portable gaming.
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By the 1980s the Forward's acculturative function was becoming superfluous.
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We-- I mean we're pretty superfluous at-- to some extent.
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It was not superfluous when Betances once again came unhinged.
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Any action, when it comes, seems halfhearted, if not superfluous.
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Additionally, the metered parking in most city streets becomes superfluous.
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The animal experiments in the study are superfluous and repulsive.
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Superfluous intimate relationships aggravate your Saturn as it enters Aquarius.
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Some of the jobs supported by the big budget seemed superfluous.
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Well, I realized that any signage in this world was superfluous.
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The website is, naturally, covered in gold imagery and superfluous language.
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The gore in Revenge isn't superfluous, it feels earned and necessary.
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I love that there is no superfluous shit in these cars.
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The film's weakness, however, lies within its use of the superfluous.
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"This debate is not only damaging but also superfluous," said Schaeuble.
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Advocates of the longer trucks say that such arguments are superfluous.
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All this superfluous clothing would depict the wealth of these people.
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With the advent of the camera, artists were often deemed superfluous.
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Much here is superfluous to our time, obsolete and almost irrelevant.
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Smart lights can seem superfluous, but I certainly enjoy having them.
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The last line might seem like a superfluous flourish, but it's key.
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Anything superfluous can then be deleted or backed up to Google Drive.
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The restocking process is the most superfluous, whimsical thing I've ever seen.
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Gone were the superfluous superlatives and instead the concise document packed meat.
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"It's superfluous," said Wim Mijs, chief executive of the European Banking Federation.
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Many messages are written in superfluous erudite verbiage (read: unnecessary fancy words).
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At times, though, all the bustling to and fro feels strained, superfluous.
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The older I get, the less tolerant I am of superfluous design.
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CONTEMPORARY HAUTE COUTURE is often considered extravagant, sometimes superfluous and even irrelevant.
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Despite its length, there isn't a passage that drags or feels superfluous.
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The silly, superfluous nature of a two-second looping cartoon, executed flawlessly.
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Jamie sees now that growing up he felt superfluous to his parents.
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Taking this natural bias and making it your dating identity is superfluous.
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These headphones are also wireless, so you won't get tangled in superfluous cords.
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"We prefer European solutions, but national solutions are not necessarily superfluous," Seehofer said.
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The scary thing about Seattle is that all of this offense is superfluous.
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The bulk of humanity is exhausted and superfluous, miscreant, confused, latently criminal, opportunistic.
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In The Man With the Golden Gun, the villain had a superfluous nipple.
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By Saturday, Detroit seemed largely taken over by half-shirts and superfluous bangles.
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I write for a living, and even I think writing is often superfluous.
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Or, they might just find themselves entirely superfluous in an already crowded field.
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And they called it superfluous in light of existing federal and state laws.
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There were comments about other stars that were cut because it felt superfluous.
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I want my deck art to have efficient meaning rather than superfluous decoration.
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We wanted to start our journey by stripping ourselves of superfluous material noise.
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The biographical details, meant to warm the heart and stoke outrage, feel superfluous.
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Mr Woidke, a Scholz supporter, calls the discussion over staying in government "superfluous".
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This doesn't make mainstream music irrelevant, but it does make it formally superfluous.
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If that did happen, CERN's plans for a circular collider would look superfluous.
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When you've shared so much intimacy online, does a physical presence become superfluous?
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Nothing superfluous, nothing fake, nothing that doesn't work, nothing that's just there for show.
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"I want not to have much in my life that feels superfluous," she said.
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For Kuehnert, the SPD risks losing its identity and becoming superfluous while in power.
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Third, there must be an accessible, tolerated way of getting rid of superfluous girls.
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And when compared to pockets and other carryalls with straps, they can feel superfluous.
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In comparison, the MetaLimbs are somewhat of a superfluous creation, worn mostly for convenience.
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For small phones like the Nexus 53 or 5x, it might be somewhat superfluous.
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Did you ever feel like you had to playact in roles that felt superfluous?
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He told us he was speaking for his fucking self, but that was superfluous.
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Some of these services are superfluous or really only benefit the most frequent travelers.
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The former, an easily accessible voice-controlled desktop assistant, I found competent but superfluous.
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So is a Wi-Fi-connected water pitcher a super idea or completely superfluous?
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We have so much technological sophistication nowadays that parents can start to seem superfluous.
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Many superfluous sauce blobs tended to appear here — blueberry purée, pea purée, mystery purée!
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Critics say it is unnecessary, superfluous and expensive, and obstructs access to abortion services.
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But they did it anyway, and he told a superfluous little anecdote about traffic.
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The collection refuses categorization, including quotidian objects that could easily be regarded as superfluous.
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Trump, meanwhile, responded to an independent investigation by dismissing its work unnecessary and superfluous.
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And finally you realize that on this island windows are superfluous, a waste even.
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He does this primarily through an expressionist visual style that can make words superfluous.
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Republicans wasted no time hammering those items as superfluous to the crisis at hand.
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After that, patsies and flunkies like Price and Elliot are superfluous to Whiterose's needs.
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Eventually, however, Gray began to worry that Darwin had made belief in God superfluous.
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"Despite its length, there isn't a passage that drags or feels superfluous," Szalai writes.
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Mr. Russell said his reading of the law avoided some contradictions and superfluous words.
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Some add-ons feel superfluous, including overexposed works by Roy Lichtenstein and Frank Stella.
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It almost feels superfluous to explain why "When Doves Cry" matters or why it's great.
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Spahn, 37, wants to make the AfD "superfluous" by winning back voters on the right.
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Sure. That great work gets overlooked and superfluous work gets deemed great is a given.
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Out there, Starlink might be a godsend, while in big cities it might be superfluous.
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Critics say the ballot is superfluous and that parliament should simply vote on the matter.
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A small company museum seems superfluous in a factory that resembles an industrial-heritage centre.
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Of more than 1,000 bureaucrats at Ohio University in Athens, 400 are superfluous, he reckons.
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But in the overall scheme of the universe that prequels serve, they are inherently superfluous.
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Most of the superfluous physicality is used to enhance characterization and not further the plot.
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Frankly, the series might seem a little superfluous, given the aforementioned titles in its genre.
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As a result, the SEC said, the firms collected about $2 million in superfluous fees.
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He ate lots of paletas, Popsicle-esque treats that make use of otherwise superfluous produce.
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A decade ago, 30 terabytes was a superfluous amount of storage, reserved for professional use.
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There are the unintelligible medical notes, filled with ragged vines of superfluous, robot-generated text.
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Only the director's superfluous recollections of his contentious relations with his dad slow it down.
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Unfortunately, Apollos 12 through 17 seemed to many to be superfluous, very expensive victory laps.
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Likely such an institution would seem superfluous because the whole festival functions as one itself.
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They are not afraid of their voices and they are not satisfied with being superfluous.
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He appears both hyper-animated and superfluous, just another colorful object in a jeweler's atelier.
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Her charisma is indelible and also, within the parameters of the story, a bit superfluous.
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Bennet is careful not to weigh down his narrative with superfluous inside-the-room details.
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What's sometimes awkward is Ernie's part of the story, which can feel superfluous and forced.
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It would also make parking garages and parking spaces superfluous, freeing up valuable real estate.
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It's difficult to see how it's necessary, and comes off as superfluous and tryhard-y.
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There are also a handful of of superfluous elements that nevertheless add to the atmosphere.
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In addition, Washington could easily halt its provocative – and superfluous – overflight operations near North Korea.
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There's a splendid, if superfluous, battle between Cliff and a haughty Bruce Lee (Mike Moh).
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Perhaps Oppenheimer felt that this dénouement was already familiar, or superfluous to his main concern.
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Fashion in politics is often dismissed as superfluous and unworthy of serious thought and consideration.
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Most wore makeup, a superfluous embellishment when the Taliban barred women from showing their face.
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You know full well that we are not in a position to accommodate for superfluous preferences.
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Regardless of the notion that this season was superfluous, millions of people watched and judged anyway.
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But without that layer of rarely seen context, Conversations With a Killer feels even more superfluous.
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The journal was a gift, an auspicious start to my year of cutting out superfluous spending.
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The incoming Trump administration has promised to cut what it calls superfluous restrictions on energy production.
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Moreover, the advent of early voting may render polls almost superfluous in a few key states.
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The worst part of bloatware is that users aren't able to easily delete the superfluous apps.
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A new, long-overdue Honest Trailer is calling out the superfluous sequel for what it is.
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Again, this picks up after a few episodes as we see less of the superfluous characters.
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Then there's the folder of superfluous LG apps, and unrequested additions of unremovable extras like Evernote.
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Was there anything or anyone in particular that sparked this line of thinking—tattoos being superfluous?
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But the Indonesian Doctors Association, in a statement late last week, rejected the procedure as superfluous.
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Here Carrère's autobiographical interventions seem not showy or superfluous (as they can in "Limonov") but necessary.
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Granted, there are plenty of superfluous votes: the ones that took the candidate beyond the threshold.
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But since Times has now established his own popularity with those voters, Pence might be superfluous.
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My house is very small; there is no room for anything superfluous in 900 square feet.
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And with that mindset, the failure to gain traction with consumer devices meant Groove was superfluous.
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The argument was that growing investment flows into developing countries rendered World Bank lending mostly superfluous.
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But Murder Cafe skews lighter and more comic in a way that makes logical deduction superfluous.
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But, even if he had been there, his skills as a troll might have been superfluous.
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"Underworld," Don DeLillo This was the book that made my John Updike collection pretty much superfluous.
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" And as for quaaludes, "is there any more perfect spelling than with that lazy superfluous vowel?
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She deems him Forky, as kindergartens aren't familiar with the intricacies of the world's most superfluous utensil.
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Each element feels like a considered remainder, left after months spent painstakingly scratching away at superfluous sounds.
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Yet if robots can compensate for high retirement rates, how many younger workers might also be superfluous?
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Channel surfing became superfluous once you could just DVR and stockpile your shows or stream them instantly.
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For Peter Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin or Heath Ledger as the Joker, special effects are superfluous.
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Google already provides its own protections against malicious links within Chrome, so Microsoft's addition does seem superfluous.
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Paris, on the other hand, makes it sound like a prenup is superfluous, but just in case ...
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She can "see through whatever is superfluous and unnecessary and get right down to it," Kopp said.
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He also told me about his vision of a future world in which work would be superfluous.
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But that helps because that means you aren&apost going to have superfluous scenes with the characters.
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This extra requirement for abortions is superfluous; discussing risks and benefits is standard for all medical procedures.
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Letters of recommendation are typically superfluous, written by people who the applicant thinks will impress a school.
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This is the way that a brain filters out superfluous information and prevents an overload of data.
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Commercial banks might become superfluous and fail, leaving central banks to become, in effect, giant retail banks.
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The few that stand out — Mr. Hall's fireplug, Topher Grace's glib fixer — make the labored introductions superfluous.
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Over all, the aluminum body panels form classic organic Porsche design, without superfluous fins, gills and wings.
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A poem by Mark McCain would be water poured into a vessel that was already full: superfluous.
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We don't discover much else about his father; K. doesn't appear again; there is no superfluous backstory.
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If Trump's letter sought to energize his supporters or shore up his congressional allies, it was superfluous.
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A commercial intermediary would be superfluous, serving only to profit as it brokered NASA's services to itself.
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So the plan would scrap the Clean Power Plan and other regulations it says would become superfluous.
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It doesn't just mean dumping Twitter; it also means no Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, or any other superfluous distraction.
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For a moment, let's assume that all the protests about various injustices are TOTALLY superfluous to this discussion.
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The strange, superfluous, crazy, awkward, head-scratchingly bizarre things that only a trade show like CES can spawn.
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One way of telling that many licences are superfluous is the sheer variance in the law across states.
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Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates had previously announced a new alliance, potentially rendering the GCC superfluous.
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For Meghan and Harry everything else, even developing a globally acclaimed portfolio of irreproachably good causes, is superfluous.
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The new standards limited election systems to containing solely voting and tabulation software, eliminating any other superfluous software.
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The air fryer, like some of the more superfluous appliances in my house, was a Black Friday purchase.
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Factory, provides all 18 episodes both in the original broadcast aspect ratio and a superfluous wide-screen format.
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Nor can EPA render them superfluous or contrary to their original purpose by simply defining them to be.
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"When democracy comes under this kind of virulent attack, then the election itself becomes superfluous," the statement said.
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But to hybridize the two, in an era of unfiltered diversity, is a superfluous nod to half-acceptance.
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Why should my introduction presume to explain further and risk toppling this delicately poised lyric with superfluous discourse?
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Like a minimalist architect, I began removing the superfluous and judging what I constructed on its bedrock elements.
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When I first heard about this remake, it sounded superfluous, 15 years and a zillion makeover shows later.
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Somebody was shaking a superfluous tambourine on "Nightrain" and nobody knew what to do after the guitar solo.
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Again, I suspect most folks will find these features superfluous, but I think they're a lot of fun.
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Since the Great Recession, many kitchens have cut back on what they considered superfluous luxuries, obliterating pastry departments.
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Since the Great Recession, many kitchens have cut back on what they considered superfluous luxuries, obliterating pastry departments.
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The characters' musings about regrets — life is imperfect, you see — seem superfluous, the byproducts of an overwritten screenplay.
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I use Audible every single day, snatching up those superfluous achievement badges like a beaming front-row Ravenclaw.
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During the stretches when Golden State's offence was firing on all cylinders, their most recent addition seemed almost superfluous.
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But, alas, any talk of switching sports is superfluous when you've got someone like Canelo on your plate beforehand.
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So if we know is it forgivable to want to save a few dollars on our next superfluous gadget?
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And once you buy a pair you think will do the trick, they're uncomfortable, bulky, or have superfluous buttons.
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The attractiveness of investing the total amount could lead to staggering inflation, higher costs and superfluous projects being realized.
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And in the interest of not killing your battery for a very superfluous feature, Samsung doesn't endlessly loop GIFs.
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Sean Paul loses one romance point because he's still doing superfluous pointing and wearing an object on his head.
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Also superfluous are the new characters, none of whom really make an impression except Sipiwe Moyo's scene-stealing Adeola.
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Cash registers and checkout lines become superfluous - customers are billed after leaving the store using credit cards on file.
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Theodore White's classic "The Making of the President" series, while informative, is superfluous in terms of explaining presidential elections.
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"Aligning this policy" is a superfluous attempt to legitimize a practice that has already proven to have disastrous consequences.
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These have been labelled as "superfluous" by conservative politician Christopher Pyne, who said he would vote against the amendments.
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The actions followed a pattern: Some of them were necessary to make the machine go and some were superfluous.
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When Abby held it in her hand, it already looked like a piece of jewelry: precious, beautiful, superfluous. ♦
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When they began to anger the growing majority of consumers who don't like the president, they became utterly superfluous.
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Consciousness has been exploded not so much as an aftereffect of a violent shock but thanks to becoming superfluous.
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He views many of the global-warming programs as superfluous additions made by an out-of-control Obama EPA.
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The design is functional and characterful There's one big bulbous power button, two volume controls, and no superfluous extras.
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For a long time, the scientific establishment suspected that dreams were a superfluous by-product of the REM state.
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These additions, unlike Walter's fourth-wall-breaking moment, feel superfluous, belaboring what could have been implicit in the acting.
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Using materials such as thread, ink, oil paint, graphite, and gold leaf, Ginzel transforms her superfluous things into talismans.
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It all looked so superfluous, there in the final minutes of a life whose exact end was already known.
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The Age of Resistance writers are filling that blank space in a way that feels natural rather than superfluous.
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This version also includes some interpolations to underline that we are indeed all in jail, which mostly feel superfluous.
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Until now, those clients could only compress superfluous exposures by going into the market to create perfectly offsetting trades.
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Any encore would have been superfluous, even disruptive, as Mr. Padmore, Mr. Biss and the audience all clearly recognized.
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Zusak is often incredibly heavy-handed: Still, even with the superfluous language, The Book Thief more than deserves its reputation.
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The operative pieces are split up by two superfluous lines, and Meredith's character delivers his answer with clumsy filler words.
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But while these additions are superfluous to many a user's needs, everyone pays for them whether they're used or not.
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As a response to the plummeting birth rates, the idea of an individual's consent to sex was dismissed as superfluous.
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Some legal experts say such measures are superfluous; genital cutting can be prosecuted under existing assault and child abuse laws.
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But for the most part, the data used by scientists has remained untouched, and the archiving efforts seem largely superfluous.
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Slack also bombards you with notifications, leads to superfluous conversation, and has likely stolen precious hours of your workplace productivity.
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Instead of being treated as superfluous asides, bisexual characters have increasingly become part of the fabric of their respective shows.
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But another regular feature of gaming gear is the encumbrance of superfluous design elements and unnecessary additional buttons and toggles.
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The continued presence of Tariq, Lucious's F.B.I. agent half brother, adds a superfluous new feuding family member to the mix.
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Clinton, who hopes to run up an enormous margin with Hispanic voters, but could also render Mr. Kaine's appeal superfluous.
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The spiritual imperative transcends everything, rendering politics, and the pursuit of truth in the ordinary sense, superfluous or even dangerous.
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Too often, the topic of gender, as it relates to terrorism, is treated as superfluous — a nice-to-have extra.
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Other times, meetings can feel a bit superfluous, especially in this age of email correspondence and office-wide instant messaging.
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Here's the thing, though: I'm guessing everyone who sees the film will come away thinking a different storyline was superfluous.
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It is a very weird feeling to use a person's leg as a chat server, especially when it seems superfluous.
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But that model of adjacency is irrelevant and increasingly superfluous in a world in which there is so much content.
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There had been discussions about creating new ventilation systems in the shape of the smokestacks, but that was deemed superfluous.
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As his national star rose during his unsuccessful race for the US Senate last year, his last name became superfluous.
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West has always made feeling paramount to clarity, and so has Cudi, but together they temper each other's superfluous instincts.
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Pros: High-quality tools, durable hard-shell storage case, no superfluous toolsCons: Tools often slip out of place inside case
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Nebulous discussions of due process may be nice (or not) but they're superfluous if the President went beyond his statutory authority.
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All of that is kind of superfluous to the real issue though, which is Knife Media has ties to a cult.
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This might sound like a superfluous use of your app screen space, but it turns out it's an incredibly powerful tool.
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However, much of the voluminous act already has been implemented, making rollbacks costly, difficult to implement and, at some level, superfluous.
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But it's difficult to find any other flaws — there are no obvious deal-breakers, like obnoxious logos or superfluous add-ons.
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Today's realities of global warning and a failing healthcare system don't reward the superfluous inventions that inspired us in the Jetsons.
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The government argues that the charter was superfluous, as the existing provisions offer comprehensive protections to British LGBT people against discrimination.
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At this point, HipChat and Stride had really become superfluous to the company and they sold the IP to their competitor.
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Although there were some limited successes like the Apple Watch or Fitbit, these devices were either too cumbersome, ugly, or superfluous.
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Once I'd formed this picture of Dickens in my mind, it became an easy way to discount his novels as superfluous.
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Olivia gives him the "I'm not here to make friends" speech, which is superfluous considering her body language and track record.
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Twinned with Praxair's apparent willingness to share power more evenly, this gives Belloni a good chance of successfully making himself superfluous.
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" When Evans started her No Spend Year, she says she cut out virtually all superfluous spending all at once, "cold turkey.
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Frank edited her email to remove superfluous exclamation marks — something she had struggled with overusing in the past — and pressed send.
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That femme black people, otherwise superfluous to their white and nonblack counterparts, become so necessary when it's time to bring attitude.
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Now's the time to leave the jackets at home — and to rethink any superfluous T-shirt layers or stuffy, itchy fabrics.
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Given that police pay close attention to pot smokers on the web and social media, these precautions are far from superfluous.
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It is possible she will clinch the nomination by winning New Jersey earlier that day, making the outcome in California superfluous.
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Most of the cyclists I met were on upright bicycles and treated helmets as superfluous on the car-free bicycle paths.
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He has interests (including the Seattle Seahawks), but immediately buys himself anything he wants and doesn't like knickknacks or superfluous things.
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My walker even sent short videos of the walk and marked wherever Max relieved himself — a superfluous but strangely satisfying feature.
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Analysts say a terminal for liquefied natural gas on Germany's northern shore, where the port would be built, is probably superfluous.
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One response to the fraud case has been incredulity not at its existence but at its intricate and seemingly superfluous criminality.
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The idea of this service seems superfluous, but at least one of my single male coworkers said he was into the idea.
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One or two enthusiasts would have been fine, but the doc includes so many that their contributions sometimes feel repetitive and superfluous.
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The company claims that the sharp increase in pediatric visits in Japan is unnecessary, with 21418139 percent of the visits being superfluous.
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It's superfluous, though, I'll admit, seeing the graphics card dimly lit through the side panel of the Core X Chroma looks cool.
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Well, it depends on your preferences, but having to use Siri to switch songs or adjust the volume is a little superfluous.
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Last year's "Edge" features were completely superfluous and definitely not a reason to choose the Edge devices over the plain old S6.
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Unencumbered by superfluous toppings, the street taco's meat is allowed to claim its rightful role as culinary King Shit around these parts.
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It may sound superfluous, but such a genetic tweak could prepare colonists for long stays on Arrakis Mars where water is scarce.
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Because, at times, her descriptions of his mania not only seem superfluous, but make the onset of a manic episode actually covetable.
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Mothers are also adjusting to getting older themselves and feeling a bit superfluous, no longer being the center of their child's lives.
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In a world where so many people simply use their phone as their alarm clock, Lenovo's Smart Clock feels a bit superfluous.
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For many users, the idea of carrying around a devoted camera — even one with a relatively unique form factor — has become superfluous.
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Now that the episode has been planned, filmed and uploaded to the proper equipment, the humans who made it are rendered superfluous.
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Ten years after Beim founded Celmatix, the femtech industry is awash in companies whose products range from the significant to the superfluous.
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Like a Cooper monologue, Pale Horse Rider veers off on a variety of tangents, some superfluous, some fascinating, some both at once.
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In 2015, while avoiding saying he regretted his vote, he called the proposed ban "superfluous" in an interview with Fox News Sunday.
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And, though largely superfluous and forgettable, it is in some ways the most honest book a Silicon Valley entrepreneur has yet produced.
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The idea is that this art doesn't need commentary; it speaks for itself, and anything added, beyond light and space, is superfluous.
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Twinned with Praxair's apparent willingness to share power more evenly, this gives Mr. Belloni a good chance of successfully making himself superfluous.
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It often disputes the conclusions of its subordinate agencies, and is regarded within the intelligence community as a superfluous trinket of bureaucracy.
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This was an unfortunate choice, more as a superfluous diplomatic insult than as a situation where the president's input was substantively needed.
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Jeff and Lauren strolled around their ritzy neighborhood Friday near Lake Washington in Medina, Washington ... and the surroundings were superfluous to them.
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At first, this section seemed out of place and superfluous, but every time I needed a break, I'd end up back there.
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In the past, investors who complained that some of Apple's socially driven initiatives were superfluous to the company's core business were quickly subdued.
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Many investors were stumped: The Chinese stock markets already had a trading halt mechanism, so isn't the introduction of a circuit breaker superfluous?
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After the superfluous pleasantries standard with all bots these days, And Chill asks you to tell it a movie you liked and why.
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These efforts are a means to obscure bias and ease transparency, two methods which will certainly eradicate both bias and superfluous independent thought.
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But these more basic machine learning algorithms work well enough for many applications, making the additional complexity of deep learning models often superfluous.
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It is perhaps superfluous to say that watching and learning from Kofi greatly enriched my life; he did that for all of us.
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At the same time, the movie's presumably normally gifted men are as superfluous to the proceedings as a thesaurus in the writers' room.
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Spoiler alerts would be superfluous in a review of "11/8/16": You already know the ending, and you've lived through the events.
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Granted, if you've ever actually used either a traditional credit card or Apple Pay before then there's a lot of superfluous information here.
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Some promising ideas and characters are introduced, but the narrative is so superfluous, the connecting segments so fleeting, that little is fleshed out.
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So "microshading," a new brow procedure that's gaining traction on Instagram, is surely some pretender to the throne, a superfluous hanger-on, right?
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The usual practice of treating art and culture as a superfluous aspect of the human experience undeserving of public support is not tenable.
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The honor guard's commander, Joseph Barry, admitted that Mr. Heller would have "dropped a few F-bombs" in declaring the whole thing superfluous.
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If the oven is receiving a lukewarm reception, it's probably because this appears to be even more superfluous than many "Keurig of..." devices.
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"Changes were made to the superfluous language that skewed its findings," said Jerika Richardson, a senior adviser and secretary to the review board.
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But maybe that's because Johnson sticks to the action, where Marta is central and doesn't spend too much time on superfluous character comedy.
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But the diva's relatability is occasionally overplayed, and Ms. Fleming offers a lot of emoting, superfluous jazz inflections and tipsy flirtations with rubato.
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In fact, he's proposing to entirely eliminate dozens of initiatives — often small grant programs — that his team has identified as superfluous or unnecessary.
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They have odd design elements, like floating clouds, superfluous flowers, and strange faux-empowering language where straightforward medical terminology would more than suffice.
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Such "fatigue duty," as it was called, was not intended as exercise, but it made outside physical conditioning seem superfluous or even dangerous.
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And it ... all of the stupid "this doesn't work right" things that were in it or seemed superfluous or not natural are gone.
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These are the sort of superfluous, bossy government ventures that we can live without, despite the cries of infamy that will accompany the cut.
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"It is simply not rational to invest billions in maintaining superfluous weapons that if ever used would destabilize our own country," Pearce told Gizmodo.
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So at this point, finding a justification for plopping her on cover of a magazine seems a tad superfluous, especially for a Vogue Australia.
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Another sore spot is Ileana D'Cruz whose role as Amay's wife is so superfluous that she was probably roped in just for the songs.
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Correction (April 23rd 2019): "Memoirs of a Superfluous Man" was the autobiography of Albert Jay Nock, not Alfred Jay Nock as we originally wrote.
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Now, some people reading this probably think laptop cases are superfluous purchases, and to that I say I used to be one of them.
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Jaime was dispatched to Dorne to save Myrcella, the daughter of his incestuous relationship with Cersei, from a superfluous Scooby-Doo plot and failed.
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The Braves have made the move from a perfectly good stadium in the city to a perfectly good (and superfluous) stadium in the suburbs.
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To combat the drive to buy everything marketed to him, Sall focuses on how full his life is without new and often superfluous items.
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We can surmise anything much more advanced than the free, manual toothbrush you get from your dentist is pretty superfluous to the average brusher.
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If you cut back on a few subscriptions, meals out or other superfluous expenditures for a while, you can create a cushion for yourself.
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But, if you just had an entertainment hub that acted in place of all your superfluous crap, you'd have a bit more breathing room.
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Even the new superfluous features in iMessage, like resizing messages, invisible ink, heartbeats, and strobe effects, are presumably things Apple built to delight people.
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Canned foods and packaged goods gleam untouched on shelves; museum pieces in an exhibition of superfluous development that needs no signage to explain itself.
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The Education Department has been examining its regulations as part of an administration-wide push to roll back any rules that are considered superfluous.
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Suddenly the thought of adding superfluous nonsense into what should be a straightforward email makes me realise what a dangerous precedent I'd almost set.
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Broadly facing criticism about overpriced and superfluous projects, China is reshaping and retooling its grand infrastructure plan, known as the Belt and Road Initiative.
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Much of that whole conception was invented with a profit motive in mind and out of a real feeling that older people were superfluous.
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Our critic says it's great for office desks or kitchens, but superfluous if you already have an Echo speaker and a smartphone or tablet.
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So a Fed move on the overnight funds rate, which is targeted in a range of 1.5%-1.75%, might seem superfluous at this point.
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But over the three decades that followed, the U.S. developed and deployed new capabilities which, while not technically violating the treaty, made it superfluous.
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If you can't find a diaper-related product sold by The Honest Company, it's almost surely superfluous, and everything the company makes is great.
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One of the easiest ways to prevent superfluous meetings is to require two things of anyone who calls one: Being present is also important.
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"We tied up Drake's story with a nice bow, so everything we kept coming up with just felt superfluous," said co-writer Josh Scherr.
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Greengrass is as dexterous as ever, yet the result, though abounding in thrills, seems oddly stifled by self-consciousness and, dare one say, superfluous.
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POTUS already made his intentions clear when he tweeted "VETO!" right after the Senate motion passed, so the poll is not just ridiculous ... it's superfluous.
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And while a sleek pizza box might not be considered Apple's most far-reaching invention to date, it may not be their most superfluous, either.
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States that currently have just one abortion clinic are proof of how strict, superfluous requirements force clinics to shutter, leaving women with fewer healthcare options.
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The most superfluous of these is "Turning Turtle," which exists for no other reason than to give Meryl Streep anything, anything at all, to do.
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"I wanted people to just think about the act of seeing itself, and not be distracted by any superfluous detail in the images," Akten explains.
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Born in Brussels in 1924, Broodthaers — pronounced "Brotars," as he himself explained, grumbling about the superfluous letters in his name — started writing as a teenager.
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Given the LME is already offering what looks a tailor-made solution to the shifting regulatory landscape, a second LBMA-led venture might appear superfluous.
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In the case of Tess McGill's topless housework and these other examples, the nudity and sex scenes feel gratuitous, exploitative, and just straight-up superfluous.
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While it won't win any prizes for beauty or ingenuity, the Trestle is a well-thought-out creation with very few shortcomings or superfluous extras.
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By the time the physical interconnect battles are all straightened out, the wires themselves might have become superfluous and wireless streaming might have taken over.
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All the superfluous talk surrounding Durant, about Beverley, his pending free agency or his technical foul total, seemed to obscure his most defining gift — scoring.
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It spans about 15 feet in elevation, a height that renders it nearly superfluous but may be responsible for its bewildering exemption from the Law.
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ReachNow's chief executive, Steve Banfield, in an interview here, compared the concept to Netflix, the video service that has helped render ownership of DVDs superfluous.
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In a mostly superfluous prologue, we see her (played by Barbara Colen) in 1980, celebrating the birthday of her free-spirited aunt Lucia (Thaia Perez).
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This is a masterclass in curating, with no superfluous images or filler, and thematic links made diligently throughout using close examination of content and treatment.
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What about the impact of memory-altering drugs on the soldier's sense of guilt, which might be important in decisions about unnecessary and superfluous suffering?
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The friendships, the informal relationships behind the artworks, are not superfluous side notes to the end objects, but of fundamental importance to their very existence.
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Most dishes are composed with speed and efficiency, rather than prettiness in mind — no wasted movements in the kitchen, no superfluous components on the plate.
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They can feed superfluous clean power into the grid during the day and draw the same amount of conventional power out of it at night.
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Also, it's better to write those emails and have them turn out to be superfluous to the hiring process rather than the other way around.
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You can get past some inconsistencies and superfluous piety, though, on the sheer pull of the story and on the overall strength of the performances.
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Take, for example, the film's protest scene, in which an instance of senseless (and narratively superfluous) violence occurs, further pitting Black folks against each other.
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With no superfluous buttons or additional attachments, they are lightweight enough to wear to workouts, on outdoor adventures, and on your everyday commute to work.
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Some may seem harmless (if superfluous); some may be a waste of money; some may impede progress by undermining science; some may be physically dangerous.
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The story of Anne Frank is so well known to so many that the task of making it new seems at once insurmountable and superfluous.
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"Continuing to spend billions of dollars to maintain so many superfluous nuclear weapons we would never use because it would destabilize America makes no sense."
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But it feels superfluous in the face of everything else Red Sparrow is trying to do, all of the things it wants to be about.
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What should be a coherent, integrated part of Sanders's broader message comes off as a sort of honor badge from his activist days, decorative and superfluous.
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But if I had the choice, I'd trade a lot of these superfluous extras back for a bit of the old V-series' charm and personality.
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In 2014, researchers from the University of Basel in Switzerland argued that the brain is actively, rather than passively, working to rid itself of superfluous information.
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As a re-creation rather than a reworking of the original, the 2017 live-action Beauty and the Beast, starring Emma Watson, is even more superfluous.
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His direction often yields projects that are two-thirds great and one-third superfluous, from 2009's Funny People to last summer's Trainwreck with Amy Schumer.
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It now boasts a slew of experimental features beyond Amazon's standard store listings—some of which are impressive and potentially game-changing, others puzzling and superfluous.
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Equating Hawking with what may seem like a silly "holiday" based on a numerical coincidence may seem superfluous and like its minimizing Hawking's genius and accomplishments.
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Others have tried to achieve this by repurposing superfluous "stop" codons to encode novel amino acids, and one firm, Ambrx, has succeeded in doing so industrially.
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Take a quick peek at the movie showtimes of your local theater, and it's almost guaranteed that there's a reboot or superfluous sequel on there somewhere.
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Given the defendant's age, Mr Boies responded, the ban is superfluous and any return of bonuses would be unjustified given the company's performance at the time.
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A lot of times, texting on television or in movies feels superfluous, like the directors just threw in a texting scene just to prove they could.
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The legislation appropriately protects producers from superfluous litigation when they have agreed to work with federal and state officials to resolve the environmental issue in question.
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Milk Music was one attempt, the Galaxy app store has been another, and the sad superfluous clown that is the Bixby digital assistant is yet another.
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"We need to be safe from measles, but other vaccines seem to me absolutely superfluous," Mr. Salvini said, adding that he had his own children vaccinated.
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His poem "Le Mondain," written in 1736, is an apology for worldly luxury — "the superfluous, a very necessary thing," he wrote, in opposition to Christian asceticism.
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The novel would have benefited from some rigorous editing — there are digressions about business travails, V-2 rockets and "Gravity's Rainbow" that are tedious and superfluous.
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I was less likely to get pulled away by superfluous streams of thought and soon began to deeply enjoy these moments of seemingly forced mindful parenting.
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Regular audiences, on the other hand, shell out top dollar for a new release (often with surcharges for 3D, Imax and other superfluous bells and whistles).
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And it would be divisive for the nation and a boon to our global competitors if Democrats choose to hobble our national agenda with superfluous, partisan impeachment.
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Whether you're sporting a throwback Herschel bag or you had one on your trusty JanSport back in middle school, many backpacks feature the seemingly superfluous add-on.
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One must do work in order to explain why a character is queer or else it is seen as an extraneous fact, a superfluous detail, a distraction.
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Another good idea would be stricter enforcement of no-parking zones, which would curb superfluous parking demand in busy areas and encourage people to use public transport.
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It's true that suffering is endemic to The Handmaid's Tale — it's built into this world — but without much hope to latch onto, it starts to feel superfluous.
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Triggers could include an upload to a sensor server with fewer or more bytes than typically expected or superfluous computer activity registered by the engine control unit.
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Whether we like it or not, the analog audio jack is now considered very much optional by smartphone makers, with many moving aggressively to make it superfluous.
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American animation sometimes has trouble simply putting breathing space into shows and movies — superfluous gestures, brief pauses, and other moments that aren't necessarily propelling the plot forward.
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Small businesses are the engine of the American economy, and cutting superfluous regulations will allow entrepreneurs to create jobs faster, and that will benefit the middle class.
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Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) starts out strong but feels increasingly superfluous as the film goes on, and probably would've been better saved for a sequel.
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And it indeed possesses the stylish self-sufficiency of a crisply turned epigram; like its resident muscle boy, "The Sandbox" doesn't have an ounce of superfluous fat.
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The Whitney Museum's description of an upcoming show of her work there as "a midcareer retrospective" seems superfluous for someone who has never not been in midcareer.
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Lodged between Cardi's and Balvin's verses, Bad Bunny's happened to include an English couplet, a rare if superfluous concession to an audience unconversant with his native tongue.
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Jonas Valanciunas might still be deemed superfluous given the other centers on the roster, and at 20183 and with some theoretical untapped upside could have a market.
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"If God had been here and seen the things that I have seen — I guess he would think his own paradise superfluous," she says toward the end.
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But listening to her recent debut album, the soothing and lovely "Borrowed Heart" — some of which was written with Lori McKenna — that work for others sounds superfluous.
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The clear losers in this scenario, at least financially, are the pimps, who have suddenly been reduced to middle men in a business where they're essentially superfluous.
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To reflect and listen and apologize where an apology is due (and if unsure, to err on the side of a superfluous sorry than an absent one).
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It's so often easy to dismiss style as a superfluous part of the news cycle, but it's increasingly impossible to separate clothing from its broader political implications.
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As hemlines got shorter and petticoat layers became superfluous, women opted for silhouettes like the miniskirt, which allowed for a greater range of movement than any piece prior.
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Since the NES Classic plays NES games, these buttons are essentially useless for it, and it took me a few minutes to get used to the superfluous buttons.
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Mr Williams-Derry argues that the pipeline is a superfluous project being built to preserve the favourable contract terms negotiated by its developers before the oil price tanked.
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In Game Booster, you'll be able to prioritize system resources for games, specify your desired resolution, and do a few other tweaks that mostly feel like superfluous effort.
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Play Sonic today, the Mega Drive's biggest-selling title, and it's a remarkably streamlined experience, stripped almost bare of the superfluous extras that pepper even today's simplest games.
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"First we have to drastically abolish useless laws," Conte said, adding that there were "many more" than the 400 pieces of superfluous legislation previously cited by Di Maio.
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But it is dangerous to believe that a carbon price, or any single market-based policy, will do the work for us, rendering other efforts superfluous or unnecessary.
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This version also tells us exactly what happened to Belle's mother, in a scene that felt a bit superfluous — and also, dark and heavy — for a Disney movie.
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While something like an insurance plan may seem like a superfluous expense at first glance, it may also be more than worth your while in the long run.
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The core problem with Westworld is that it tries to deliver a power fantasy — one of the things video games are best at — and then makes players superfluous.
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As several Ojai regulars pointed out, an anti-canonical message is superfluous at Ojai, which has celebrated the new since Igor Stravinsky and Pierre Boulez were honored guests.
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Loose quarters and dimes are, to her thinking, the burdensome relics of a bygone age, as superfluous as the conventional wallets and coin purses made to hold them.
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The most superfluous piece of flair is the "digital touch" feature, which conjures a beating heart or a sizzling fireball when you press on the screen just so.
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The role of his entirely superfluous communications staff at this point is to spin whatever Trump says into something less factually inaccurate or offensive on the taxpayer's dime.
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When my marriage feels off-kilter, when I'm avoiding some necessary confrontation or saying yes to too many superfluous obligations, I feel it in my hopped up amygdala.
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But, in the end, nothing much happens; the two mainly talk—a verisimilitude that I appreciated rather more than the narrator's superfluous analysis of why they mainly talk.
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"You could easily pare away some of the stuff in the D.N.I. as superfluous and move it back to the agencies," said John Sipher, a former C.I.A. officer.
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His National Security Council called it superfluous because Congress had subsequently passed a law mandating that the Pentagon publicly report any civilians killed in any of its operations.
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There is an odd lack of stage directions and that superfluous subplot, the story of Gloucester, which just echoes the main action (a father betrayed by his child).
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Given all these orders, Mr. Trump's decision in June to withdraw from the Paris agreement, though deeply demoralizing to the entire world, seemed in practical terms almost superfluous.
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But most of the choreography seems superfluous and jumbled, its strained attempts at psychological extremity at odds with its show-off dance effects and the narrative's established naturalism.
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This theme would certainly not be considered for a Saturday today, and it almost seems appropriate that a puzzle about redundant, repetitive, superfluous phrases is not entirely fresh!
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Anything else — any lingering, any humanity — can feel superfluous, or even wasteful, especially for a generation scapegoated as entitled for wanting things that used to be considered basic.
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In this ever-mushrooming economy that is replacing the old one, in which knowledge is power, and data governs all, working people are told they are merely superfluous.
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Endicott Barnett has given twelve "Meditations" and a few late, lovely floral still-lifes a chapel-like installation, with piped-in classical music, which seems to me superfluous.
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Every superfluous discussion about NFL kneelers or Aziz Ansari means one less essential discussion about incarceration rates or the thousands of sexual assaults that actually occur each year.
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His paintings give quiet moments of everyday life an Egyptian stillness; they are fixed in an eternal present, shorn of superfluous detail, rendered as if carved in stone.
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Frankie's roommate, Erica (Maika Monroe, supplying a superfluous but satisfying jolt of bratty energy), thinks it's a little weird, and of course she turns out to be right.
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Condemning the part of the World Cup that occurs all over the globe for two-plus years to superfluous afterthought would be to lessen the World Cup itself.
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It's a neat little trick, but between the assistant's robotic voice and Google and Apple's already deep ties into people's phones, having yet another digital helper feels somewhat superfluous.
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While the idea of a military service branch dedicated exclusively to space may seem futuristic and superfluous, it's an idea that's been floating around Washington for several decades now.
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It's a superfluous activity that's completely outside the needs of day-to-day survival, so it serves as a conspicuous display of a male's abundant physical and cognitive resources.
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The central conflict between Jack Frost and a robot army (no, really) doesn't really work, and the whole "here's a crazy mythology about how winter happens" feels especially superfluous.
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"It is a long-standing conscious choice of ours not to include things like dimensions and medium, because that information is absolutely SUPERFLUOUS," a gallery employee sniffs at me.
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Like booster supplements in smoothies and freshly pressed green-drink orders, the use of serums in skin care can at first seem like a superfluous, if not costly indulgence.
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Reflex says if funding reaches £150,000 it'll add Bluetooth connectivity to the camera so that it can connect to smartphones, which seems a bit superfluous for an analog camera.
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Lush has always championed for ethical policies when creating their beauty products: there's no animal testing, no superfluous packaging, and they operate a recycle-reward policy for empty containers.
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The government said these schemes included reporting extra therapy to boost reimbursements, scheduling therapy that patients' treating therapists thought superfluous, and providing skilled therapy to patients who were asleep.
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"There's too much superfluous information out there — all of the underlying data is flooding the Internet — which is drowning out the actual value-added, experienced forecaster products," Maue said.
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Facebook is giving Messenger a major design overhaul, promising a much simpler and cleaner user experience after years of jamming the chat app full of superfluous features like games.
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As president of Princeton he was successful in erasing a deficit and even generating a small surplus by identifying spending priorities and deciding what, in austere times, was superfluous.
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Part of the reason we're so good at what we do is because our brain is so good at throwing away data it has deemed superfluous to successful perception.
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You'll either find yourself with a digital tool that also makes you look like a tool, or a superfluous piece of gadgetry that is more trouble than it's worth.
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But truthfully, they feel superfluous, in place because bigger games pack in more to do, to see, than Rebellion can weave into its impressive-on-its-own-terms production.
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Democrats today are sorting themselves into geographic clusters where many of their votes have been rendered all but superfluous, especially in elections for the Senate, House and state government.
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Faced with criticism about overpriced and superfluous projects, China is promising corruption-free, environmentally conscious ventures and seeking advice and collaboration from major multinational banks and countries like Japan.
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You can reduce the superfluous animations when navigating around the Android operating system, which lets you get back to your home screen and close or open apps more quickly.
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Stiller, directing his first full-on drama, presents the routines and milieus of the prison convincingly, though he indulges in the occasional superfluous tracking shot or odd camera angle.
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He still rereads his manuscripts from the beginning each day—an increasing burden, as each book goes on—stripping away what's superfluous and squirrelling new ideas into the gaps.
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Mr. Coats, a mild-mannered conservative who served on the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services Committees, would be stepping into a position that some in Washington believe is superfluous.
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His curiosity about minimalism, then, reads like a response to a time when everyone is bombarded with digital information, superfluous gadgets, and online advertising designed to compel instantaneous purchases.
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Morgan Stanley then takes on the cornerstone of the existing auto-industry business model: Superfluous levels of private ownership provide an opportunity for shared mobility to find an initial grip.
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As these items appear arbitrary, if not superfluous, the rhino secures the better part of a viewer's attention, to which mine responded with the notion of a giant piggy bank.
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These superfluous codons often perform the same function, so the Project Recode scientists want to get rid of all the extra ones, replacing them with a single three-letter triplet.
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An unnecessary or superfluous trait will wither away in a species as the genetic code responsible for that trait degrades over time, or if mutations turn it into something else.
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While a fancy pizza box might sound superfluous to the average slice aficionado, to the perfectionists at Apple, every design detail of their campus counts, right down to the containers.
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OnePlus will tell you that its extra-wide aperture and electronic stabilization make OIS superfluous, but the only phone I've yet used in which that's true is the Google Pixel.
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While we're all for splurges (and even regular, "superfluous" expenses) when we can afford it, cutting back on food can be an easy – and even fun – way to save money.
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First of all, there's nothing wrong with skin care that's pleasant but superfluous; in fact, you might argue that many of the best things in life fall under this umbrella.
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It also has a superfluous button for a virtual assistant that I can't reprogram to something more useful and has the worst name for a phone I've seen in years.
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Weyand said Brussels was ready to comply with WTO rules, and beyond that, to negotiate rules on aircraft launch aid for the future, which should render the dueling sanctions superfluous.
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As if that wasn't good enough, it automatically transfers attachments to Dropbox, snoozes non-urgent emails, and lets you unsubscribe to any superfluous with a simple click of a button.
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"That effectively renders superfluous Congress' decision to only make an exception where there's a formal agreement with another country, to specifically provide a safe and effective asylum process," Gelernt said.
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On Valentine's Day, it's no doubt that your feed is full of superfluous displays of love, advertisements for jewelry and chocolates for your sweetheart, and cynics lamenting their lack thereof.
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In the spectrum of nacho recipes out there, their signature dish lies somewhere between the minimalist—the classic molten processed cheese, chips, and not much else—and amusingly superfluous, i.e.
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We had several arguments where he insisted that friends—I mean the very concept of friends—were superfluous additions to the true bedrock of life contained by the nuclear family.
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Turns out, the appendix isn't as superfluous as we've been led to believe, and may play an important role in helping out the good bacteria that live in our bellies.
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The military and intelligence leaders believed that the prime minister's plan to attack Iran's nuclear installations was politically motivated by electoral considerations and would embroil Israel in a superfluous war.
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That's a geographically efficient swap in terms of the Electoral College, giving up useless or superfluous votes in Texas and California in exchange for valuable ones in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
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Before there were seagulls, sisters, orchards or late-night vodka confessionals, there was Anton Chekhov's 2866 play about a superfluous man torn between his tubercular wife and his landowner's daughter.
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It also exists in an Americana version with an English-language voice-over regarded as superfluous by the New York Times critic Mordaunt Hall when it opened here in 1930.
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But he and a collaborator soon realized that Facebook might render personality tests superfluous: Instead of asking if someone liked poetry, you could just see if they "liked" Poetry Magazine.
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Education is the key in arming the electorate with the information necessary to consider candidates, yet superfluous spending toward athletics is hindering the way our society is learning and voting.
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Over the last decade, the Academy Awards have become a bit superfluous, with a torrent of precursor ceremonies leaving fans (and honorees) exhausted and the contents of the envelopes unsurprising.
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Still 27: You get a job at The New York Times after said buyout and you are so thankful to be working that you will now regard men as superfluous.
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These elements are silly and superfluous, but they're also indicative of the Genesis Mini as a whole, and the attention to detail that makes it feel all the more authentic.
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If any sex outside of marriage is shameful, and if talking about sex is also shameful, then treating sexual assault as a special kind of shame can almost feel superfluous.
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We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country's interest and concern; and we will never regard any faithful, law-abiding group within our borders as superfluous.
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He enlisted moderators from among the more fair-minded regulars, and for five years now they have policed not just name-calling, rudeness, and hostility but superfluous jokes and mindless agreement.
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BERLIN, June 13 (Reuters) - A debate about who will succeeed Mario Draghi as President of the European Central Bank is harmful and superfluous, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Tuesday.
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Were that true, its remaining 2 million barrels per day of spare capacity is superfluous, and the kingdom should either let it erode over time, or bring additional product to market.
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As noticed by tech video producer Dom Esposito, in iOS 12, that superfluous long hold of the app before you can close it won't be necessary on the iPhone X anymore.
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Admiral Scott Swift, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, had said in December that ships nearby these islands were now "subject to superfluous warnings that threaten routine commercial and military operations".
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"A large part of the remaining superfluous land comprises properties of which the title is not even in dispute," the government said in asking the judges to allow the land transfer.
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The House was supposed to vote to repeal Obamacare Thursday, but the vote was delayed to make sure no superfluous things were covered by the AHCA, like prenatal care or chemotherapy.
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There's an emotionally superfluous mid-film funeral for a rat, and the classic rock soundtrack tilts away from the Kinks and David Bowie toward the Beach Boys and the Rolling Stones.
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Her narratives are rigorous, partial to the present tense, and untempted by the small change of contemporary realism (abundant and superfluous dialogue in quotation marks, sharply individuated characters, tellingly selected detail).
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The need to keep receipts and superfluous documents would end, as would the inordinate (yet rational) fear of the IRS, whose fiscal 2017 budget for its 78,000 employees was $11.4 billion.
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Over the past couple of years, it has lost the ports we'd all grown to love, been graced with a superfluous Touch Bar, and had some not-so-minor keyboard issues.
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Many clinics cannot meet the completely superfluous requirement that their doctors have admitting privileges in nearby hospitals — a purely business arrangement which hospitals are not required to grant in any case.
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As time goes on, software can get bloated, settings files can become corrupt, and your computer's drive can fill up with superfluous stuff you don't really need—not unlike your house.
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It's hard to imagine such a ridiculous proposal was the suggestion of anyone but the industry, which tends to regard the strong protections of the law in Illinois as quite superfluous.
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He asks if we're facing a future in which anything in the supply chain between overseas manufacturers and customers — such as retailers or even retail websites — will be seen as superfluous.
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Others urge training of imams in Germany, "so that dispatching imams becomes superfluous," said Haci Halil Uslucan, professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen and head of its respected Turkey institute.
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To betray that spirit for a spinoff that seems superfluous, or focuses on the wrong elements of the original work, holds no interest for people who can simply imagine it better.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Putting more masterpieces in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel to join his ceiling frescoes and Last Judgement wall might seem as superfluous as adding more diamonds to the Crown Jewels.
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It might be boring and superfluous because he's bigger than the game after what he did last June, but if voters are being honest with themselves, LeBron James is the 2017 MVP.
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During the duration of the Winter Games, Google has been throwing its own Doodle Snow Games, a lovely series of animations where jovial animals compete in Olympics-style competitions for superfluous awards.
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MGM and 20th Century Fox say that the suit is superfluous and that using the word "all" was just a little marketing "puffery," and asked the court to throw out the case.
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Reducing translation to a mechanical task is admirable, but in a way chilling — though admittedly, in this case, little but a mechanical translation is called for, and artifice and interpretation are superfluous.
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Typically, the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas is a feeding frenzy of big TVs, weird gadgets, and superfluous technology, but in recent years it's become something else, too: a car show.
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Walden prefers energy powder to coffee, but the caffeine is probably superfluous, because he pops out of bed each morning like a jack-in-the-box and then stampedes through his day.
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Despite its unassuming appearance, it has enough organizational features to keep your gadgets and gear in their places, but it won't weigh you down with pounds of unnecessary material and superfluous style.
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And what I see as a trend is, this is shifting from user expectations being a long list of cool or exciting or differentiating or superfluous features, into something that's more minimal.
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Without superfluous affectations, the closed Aeons have a sparse sound that leaves plenty of air around each instrument or vocal, exposing everything in a recording, and doing so with the utmost realism.
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Besides, there are a host of bread crumbs that Mueller left in the more than 22016 pages of his court filings that would all prove superfluous if further action didn't lie ahead.
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Other analysts have noted that the U.S. demands for a stable yuan are "superfluous" on their surface because China's central bank ultimately wants the same thing in order to entice international investors.
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Opponents of the cuts have rebutted such comments with evidence of superfluous spending by the country's approximately 130 university vice chancellors (the equivalent of a number two position at an US university).
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Once derided as superfluous, the vice presidency has become a more important part of the daily work of the modern presidency, beginning with the service of Walter Mondale under President Jimmy Carter.
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People sympathetic to Kondo suggest that critics have misinterpreted Kondo's message: as they point out, the KonMari method isn't about tossing everything willy nilly, but getting rid of things that feel superfluous.
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Brown writes in a believable way about the corporate workplace and the large number of seemingly superfluous people who seem to not really do anything, while also making a lot of money.
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The results of a superfluous brain surgery — or a botched one — are grim, and if Dev's procedures go awry, the angriest families don't just complain or sue, as they do in England.
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The signs at the junction had been clear, but since then long stretches had gone by without any of the superfluous reassurance that I'd grown used to and now seemed to require.
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But so much of the plotting on the way there feels like it simply exists to get to the finale, right down to the largely superfluous storyline about D'artagnan, the baby demogorgon.
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Still used to a post-cold-war age, when the Bundeswehr was awash with superfluous equipment and personnel, planners, procurers and contract lawyers are not used to expanding Germany's military capacity at speed.
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But, still, at this moment in time, a TV-spin off of "Parasite" seems superfluous to say the least — "Parasite" is a perfect, timeless film that begs for repeat viewings and ends perfectly.
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But many online shops including Zalando, her shop of choice here in The Netherlands, will now pick up her superfluous deliveries at her house, for free, and within a one-hour scheduled window.
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It is a decadent device that is superfluous in almost every detail; an emblem of the pure excess that has turned our modern society's beating heart into a putrid mess of rotting flesh.
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Derivatives dealers and their clients have torn up more than US$1 quadrillion of superfluous derivatives trades to-date, slimming down hefty swaps notionals in response to Basel III capital and leverage pressures.
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But this season at New York Fashion Week, sleeve manipulation has reached a new, all encompassing level: It's gone so far, in fact, that designers are adding superfluous sleeves to garments...on purpose.
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"At best, this administration believes that civil rights enforcement is superfluous and can be easily cut," Vanita Gupta, the former acting head of the DOJ's civil rights division under President Obama, told ProPublica.
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The mouse also has a completely superfluous OLED display, an optical sensor with sensitivity ranging from 100 to 16,000 CPI (counts per inch), and your choice of a braided and non-braided cables.
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While Stasko doesn't think it will completely kill hashtag culture, it could render this indexing function pretty superfluous since the algorithm is targeting individual words in context, rather than the individual words themselves.
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And a solution is simple: The ketchup, to my mind, is superfluous, and a pure form of mayonnaise — made quickly at home with egg yolks and olive oil — does the necessary job perfectly.
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"To give a big wet kiss to the president, if he read the whole letter, putting in superfluous things he didn't have to say, that's all fine and dandy," Lemon said Monday night.
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Measuring that praise, note that the G90 lacks superfluous gee-gaws like perfumed ventilation and massaging seats that capture the imagination of the moneyed on cars like the 7 Series and S-Class.
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It is men who hold, or kid themselves that they hold, the power in this thrusting world, and the film is larded with their piggery, yet how superfluous they seem, and how disposable.
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He said U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt serving four terms because of the upheaval his country was going through at the time was an example of why presidential term limits were sometimes superfluous.
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So even before opening the first page of "Ten Caesars," the reader feels a debt of gratitude to Strauss for scything off a superfluous 60-plus rulers and concentrating on a manageable number.
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For the sake of narrative speed and cinematic concision, it is compelled to jettison superfluous characters and an entire parallel story line: that of Gloucester, yet another father of wicked and favorable offspring.
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But Democrats contemptuously suggested that the inauguration of Donald J. Trump on Friday rendered a three-ring commercial circus superfluous because now the United States has its own P. T. Barnum as president.
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Not only was there a console box, but there was also a superfluous, bulky touch pad controller, along with all the Wiimotes, the rectangular controllers, which had to be charged between gaming sessions.
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But the museum, which announced plans on Monday for a new "innovative 19503st-century institution," has said that the items it intends to auction are essentially superfluous to its plans for the future.
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What makes this system particularly powerful, the researchers say, is that it can weed out superfluous movements and background noise, focusing solely on the behavioral measures of sleep, such as pulse and breathing rate.
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It is while setting up a new Android phone, as I uncheck every superfluous notification option on Maps, Android Pay, Docs, Drive, Photos, and YouTube that I come to think, this is Windows behavior.
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But according to family lore, she was also known to have drowned "superfluous" kittens in a vat of pickle brine, a slice of 403th-century vérité it's hard to imagine the Apple show touching.
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Missing the anti-bezel bandwagon — In pursuing its new design language and superfluous extra screen, HTC didn't address what's likely to be the real hot trend driving smartphone sales in 2017: killing the bezels.
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There are so many moving pieces and subplots and superfluous characters (there's a whole bit about a cross-country road trip with Joey King that's totally unnecessary) that you'll be dizzy by the end.
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The crystal foxes are almost equally superfluous, but they serve an important story function in that they let the Resistance figure out how to escape from the base at the end of the film.
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That reportedly hasn't stopped the White House from seeking assurances there'd be no devaluation, but that American pursuit for yuan stability is "superfluous," according to Mizuho Bank Head of Economics and Strategy Vishnu Varathan.
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But that's because it has been put on a strict diet over the years that helped it slim down and shed 10 additional letters that were either deemed superfluous, redundant, or just downright confusing.
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It's also never said if the story diverges in a meaningful way based on these choices, so it mostly comes across as a superfluous chance to role play Pierce in some very mild ways.
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Towards the end of her statement on Böhmermann, German chancellor Angela Merkel announced that the government considers the law under which the comedian is to be prosecuted "superfluous," and will abolish it by 2018.
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"This action eliminates superfluous reporting requirements, requirements that do not improve government transparency, but rather distract our intelligence professionals from their primary mission," a National Security Council (NSC) spokesperson said in a statement Wednesday.
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Left policy makers and analysts, Rodrik writes, face the paradox that earlier waves of reforms from the left – Keynesianism, social democracy, the welfare state – both saved capitalism from itself and effectively rendered themselves superfluous.
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One superfluous montage at a time, the high schooler changes hearts and minds, setting the stage for legislative reform and a killer dance party—and couldn't we use a little of both right now?
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Although I am still a novice, I really liked that it allowed me to tell the computer exactly what I wanted it to do, without having to navigate endless menus or other superfluous features.
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But the sheriff has also frustrated some people with his reluctance to divulge details about the case, and he has not hesitated to call out journalists for inquiries that he deems superfluous or repetitive.
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For fearful ruling classes, political order depended on their ability to forge an alliance between, as Hannah Arendt wrote, "capital and mob," between rich and powerful whites and those rendered superfluous by industrial capitalism.
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There are 2 million registered vehicles in New York City; what if every one of them were dispatched once a day to take a superfluous ride to a recreational facility over 10 miles away?
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Now that people can stream whatever they want to watch on their smartphones, laptops or tablets anywhere in the house, spaces designed solely for that purpose are increasingly viewed as superfluous, Ms. Bernstein said.
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Even if fiery rhetoric and artillery-infantry firepower can help in decimating the Taliban, the lack of political institutions in the country will only lead towards a superfluous government having little legitimacy and sovereignty.
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This states that all superfluous elements of a game's design—whether they be mechanical, visual or aural—should be removed so as to distill the feelings governing a work down to their very essence.
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"We literally sat down with the DOL folks and went line by line and had a discussion why this is superfluous and why this should stay and this should go," Ave Rex tells me.
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Throughout much of US history, the VP was seen as a nearly worthless position -- his superfluous excellence, in the words of John Adams -- serving as a political death sentence, unless the president happened to die.
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It's an exhaustive selection, but unlike other overpopulated shows currently taking up space in New York's mega-galleries (specifically Gagosian's assembly-line runs of Mark Grotjahn and Richard Prince), it is neither repetitive nor superfluous.
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In their film "Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things," they explain that their lifestyle is about removing the superfluous: if a possession doesn't serve a purpose or bring them joy, it has to go.
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These photos, for her, belong to a fairy tale, a story that undermines the one Dee Dee has always told—that her mother is "already" her best friend, and, as such, other relationships are superfluous.
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Vis-à-vis enslaved, colonized, and dispossessed people, the consent to be photographed is assumed to be superfluous, for isn't it true that photography was always in pursuit of the bien-être of progress itself?
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The computer systems there of the police, military, banks, media and government offices faced a lengthy barrage of superfluous requests designed to crash their networks, a tactic known as a distributed denial-of-service attack.
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The Newark, N.J.-based company believes it's diversified and well-capitalized enough to weather a storm and that their supervision by the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance makes the Fed's additional rules superfluous.
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Samsung says the Gear IconX also features a built-in running coach that can track your running routines, which is pretty useful — though if you're already wearing a fitness watch, it might be a bit superfluous.
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Compared to previous mods like the Moto Gamepad and Moto Stereo Speaker—which often felt superfluous—the Moto 5G mod would in theory have the power to change your phone in a much more meaningful way.
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Phones that are created primarily for markets outside of the US often include superfluous camera features, like overt beauty filters and other selfie gimmicks, but including an age- and gender-guessing AI is a bizarre move.
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At the time, recalls Larry Doyle, who served as chief legislative counsel for the State Bar of California when the rule was enacted, other states mocked California for creating what they saw as a superfluous guideline.
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Diplomats also said that deputy emergency relief coordinator Kyung-wha Kang, who was present during closed consultations in the chamber, gave no indication that OCHA felt a new resolution would be superfluous or a negative development.
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For that matter, he and Cox are both secure enough in their performances that we could have been spared a long, superfluous and deadly dull scene in which Daredevil argues the Punisher about justice and morality.
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Filed on Monday in federal court in Oakland, California, the lawsuit said most adults get adequate or even excessive amounts of biotin in their diets, and the mega-doses in Natrol's supplements are superfluous and ineffective.
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His performance gives credible tension to a love triangle that otherwise might have seemed superfluous, even if it's a subtlety that was lost on my adolescent self, too consumed with Ryan Gosling to notice anything else.
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That's a series of shots Google and Apple's best phones can't capture right now, and it highlights how an extra sensor that might seem superfluous can record a tranquil moment, even amidst an otherwise hectic schedule.
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As opposed to AT&T's page overflowing with superfluous text, some companies, like Packet Layer, file only a one-page document that includes no details whatsoever about the actual prices or speeds of its broadband service.
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Which raises the question: If young people are uninterested in English as a subject, and the government is going to lend its attention to STEM subjects, why spend time and money on increasingly superfluous English programs?
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Administration's argument: "This action eliminates superfluous reporting requirements, requirements that do not improve government transparency, but rather distract our intelligence professionals from their primary mission," a National Security Council (NSC) spokesperson said in a statement Wednesday.
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It was not only easy but also thrilling to imagine an entire season of Richard, Jared, Gilfoyle, Dinesh and even the woefully superfluous Erlich pulling end-arounds at the office to bring their skunkworks to life.
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Nitschke argues that if governments took a more enlightened position on the right to die—he points to the Netherlands as an example of particularly progressive euthanasia policy—many of these DIY solutions would be superfluous.
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If you feel like adding a third star ingredient because you, like me, do not like even numbers, thinly sliced scallion or the tender stems and leaves of cilantro will give you freshness without feeling superfluous.
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That purpose has been particularly tested for Gregorius, who was blocked at shortstop by Zack Cozart — now Simmons's teammate — in Cincinnati, and considered superfluous with the Diamondbacks, who had Nick Ahmed and Chris Owings at shortstop.
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If Fed Chairman Jerome Powell really believes what he says about the importance of CRA reform, he should get directly involved in the process instead of delegating it to a board member and making superfluous comments.
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You can set per-person budget limits and dress codes, as well as pose questions to the group about everyone's preferences (and you can even keep the latter anonymous if you want to avoid superfluous drama).
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The Fitbit Inspire HR is a great tracker for both beginners and those who want a little more from their wearable without other features that might seem superfluous, such as Fitbit Pay or internal music storage.
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HBO's adaptation of Martin's books was criticized early and often for making its female characters smaller and sillier than they were in the text, for integrating nudity into the scripts without cause, and for superfluous sexual violence.
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Since the extra point had become superfluous, the rule makers should have awarded 7 points for a touchdown, with the scoring team having the option to take 6 points instead and try for a 2-point conversion.
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Hanover-based NordLB analyst Frank Schwope said the French brand Bugatti, which has never been profitable since VW bought it in 533, "is a superfluous asset and its role must be questioned even more in tough times".
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America remains bitterly divided over guns, thanks to a bizarrely worded amendment that is introduced by a statement about militias that is superfluous (if Scalia and gun advocates are right), and was arguably never true at all.
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It seems like the need for apocalyptic fiction has become superfluous under the Trump administration, which is waging war on climate efforts and has made no bones about its readiness to engage North Korea in nuclear war.
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"I read a review where a girl made some superfluous comment about her boyfriend, which led me to wonder what would happen if someone bypassed critique of the location altogether and just reviewed the experience," she said.
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The two new co-CEOs, Sebastian Gunningham and Artie Minson, have already swung into action trimming expensive perks, unrolling superfluous acquisitions and dismissing or collecting resignations from a growing cohort of Neumann's closest allies at the company.
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It was, somehow, beloved, despite being strange and self-contradictory in a way that's hard to explain, full of even more of Nomura's strange worldbuilding and Disney worlds that felt even more superfluous to the core proceedings.
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With them I discovered Fautrier as an inspiring example of an artist who ignores many of the customary and superfluous "rules" of painting, and who through that rejection finds his own pictorial sensibility — albeit a demanding one.
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With drastic improvements in gene editing technology like CRISPR in the last few years, researchers found that the same was true of human genes: the vast majority of human genetic material appeared to be superfluous for survival.
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As is often the case with labor-saving devices, the advent of her word processor played out in unpredictable ways — making secretarial work easier for a time but superfluous later, often to the dismay of male bosses.
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His bat, which might have seemed superfluous to a power-packed lineup at the start of the season, has been so vital to the Yankees this month that he did not play in the field between Aug.
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In fact, his kickoff rally in Orlando on Tuesday night expected to feature an overflow crowd and include Vice President Mike Pence and first lady Melania Trump, may be the most superfluous campaign launch in US political history.
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But blockchain developers are trying to minimise those problems by doing away with features such as proof of work, which is necessary in a public system open to anyone but superfluous in a system designed for private use.
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After renting an apartment for a year while they searched for a permanent home, they realized most of what they had been living with — multiple dining sets, a vast array of sporting equipment, endless kitchen gadgets — was superfluous.
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The vice presidency was famously called the "superfluous excellency" by John Adams and FDR's first vice president John Nance Garner stated that it was "not worth a bucket of warm spit" – at least that's the cleaned up version.
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Many of those who had hardly bothered to think about the icy rock-ball at the far edge of the solar system suddenly found a childhood memory tarnished, mnemonic devices now featuring a superfluous P at the end.
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Despite its Shakespearean ambitions and enthusiastic reception, the television adaptation of Game of Thrones has been widely criticized for the amount of superfluous female nudity as well as its depictions of violence and, specifically, sexualized violence against women.
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"King's speeches were so powerful and so wonderful that any narration would be superfluous," Mr. Kaplan said in a podcast interview with Adam Schartoff of Filmwax Radio, recorded around the time of Dr. King's 20113th birthday in 2015.
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As more of us continue to leave the confines of an outdated brick-and-mortar office in exchange for a more balanced style of work-life integration, let's not create superfluous requirements imposing more stress and less productivity.
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Cameras that recognize facial expressions, sensors that detect heart rates and software that assesses a driver's state of awareness may seem like superfluous flights of fancy, but they are increasingly viewed as part of an inevitable driving future.
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There may not be a mass market for minimalist phones — they're expensive, they're superfluous, they're extra — but there could be niche markets for the Light Phone: well-to-do campers, weekend warriors, the hyper-wired looking for relief.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Amy Brener, "Shanty" (2014) in Greater New York, MoMA PS1, 2015–16 (photo by Benjamin Sutton for Hyperallergic) I associate plastics with superfluous packaging, ugly toys, and being bad for the environment.
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Anyone with a pulse on the tech industry can tell you there are tons of chargers on the market, but if you're sick of detangling superfluous charging cables, check out the iPM 3-in-1 Fast Wireless Charging Pad.
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"Reasonable grounds for this (extension), would be to try to get these technical developments to make the backstop superfluous," Seif added, stressing that Britain would have to say what it wanted from an extension for it to be granted.
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For non-minimalists, however, our everyday purses aren't just for the necessities — they've become collecting grounds for the weird, kooky items that might seem superfluous to the casual bystander, but are staples for the women who lug them around.
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If the book's philosophers sometimes seems superfluous, any excuse — even in the guise of a morality play — to revisit these villains and flawed heroes who, as Professor Whalen writes, channeled both Damon Runyon and Weegee, is worth the ride.
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The crucial witness for the defense was Professor Evans (played by John Sessions in the movie), whose testimony demonstrated not that Irving was a racist and neofascist—which would have been superfluous—but that he was a fraudulent historian.
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With each meal, I had the sense there were at least two superfluous courses, and occasionally Mr. McGarry seems to be straining as he reaches for the sort of razzle-dazzle you'd get at Alinea or Eleven Madison Park.
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After a week of tests, while I concluded that the product is ideal on a kitchen counter or an office desk, I also decided it was superfluous if you already own an Echo speaker and a smartphone or tablet.
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In a follow-up blog post, Duffy accused Nest's leadership of "fetishizing only the most superfluous and negative traits of their mentors"—in other words, Fadell had emulated Steve Jobs' dark side but not his capacity for getting things done.
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"This debate is not only damaging but also superfluous," said Schaeuble in a speech, adding the ECB has a difficult job in implementing monetary policy that suits the needs of all euro zone members, and he has never criticised the ECB.
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We talked to a handful of skin, nail, hair, and makeup professionals and were surprised to find out just how many superfluous steps we have in our beauty routines (not to mention some that are even doing more harm than good).
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But at that point, the results were largely superfluous: With her decisive wins in New Jersey and New Mexico, Clinton had effectively won the Democratic nomination, locking up the majority of the 4,051 pledged delegates at stake in the race.
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In each case, the objects have lost their function and now appear superfluous, yet they continue to raise the question as to whether the loss of an object's function is necessary for it to be transformed into a work of art.
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The company claims its users really like it, and that capacitive button — which is more of a touchpad, to be fair — accepts gestures that can make the usual Android navigation bar superfluous (and thus open up more space on the screen).
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They know they'll get the occasional Start menu ad popping up, they know that they'll have to spend half an hour just disabling, uninstalling, and unpinning the superfluous crap their PC comes with, and they've grown to accept that situation.
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Cleansers cleanse and moisturizers moisturize, but what is the actual function of a toner aside from just being a pretty, expensive water that smells like rose petals or makes your face tingle or some other pleasant but ultimately superfluous thing?
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That's because like the OnePlus 6T, Xiaomi picked it spots with the Mi 9 to create something sporting top-notch specs and a handful of notable features, but without hitting you over the head with superfluous stuff like pop-up cameras.
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LONDON, Oct 24 (IFR) - Swaps compression cycles intended to tear up superfluous contracts have been extended to client-cleared buyside trades for the first time, enabling end-users that are not direct members of a clearinghouse to collapse redundant exposures.
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Small events have taken place in Destiny in-between expansions, but they didn't grab me—each seemed focused on keeping the most hardcore players happy, folks who wanted something, anything to do in Destiny, even if it was mostly superfluous.
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Musk had said Tesla might make a bus, or some sort of "high-passenger-density urban transport vehicle," but recently he said a bus might be superfluous if the Tesla presses forward with its idea for an autonomous ride-sharing business.
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The Dixie Chicks showcased a couple of Patty Griffin songs and flatly performed their version of Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide," but also delivered a superfluous Prince cover and, during a bluegrass instrumental interlude, wove in snippets of Beyoncé and the Weeknd.
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Yes, this is a dark day for all the men like me who understand fighting is superfluous in hockey and have been told via various social media channels that we should "write about tennis" and asked if we pee sitting down.
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We have an innate aesthetic that appeals to us—which is hard to describe but which often involves clean lines, the right visual balance of colors and geometries, quality in construction, and the absence of anything superfluous or jokey/kitschy.
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The Yankees could include pitcher Sonny Gray, who would become superfluous, and perhaps another spare part — Ronald Torreyes or Drury, both versatile infielders — who could help the Mets in the near future, especially if they trade Asdrubal Cabrera for prospects.
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Though this may appear simple in design, it is actually "the result of the sophisticated analysis of proportional relationships–the precise balancing of solids and voids– and the avoidance of any non-functional, superfluous detail," according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
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This is a book that is great, it's awesome, it also seems entirely superfluous; it seems like the kind of thing that exists already on the web, it seems like the kind of thing you do when you're avoiding working.
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I usually wear Fitbit's most basic tracker, the Flex 2, on the same wrist as my watch, but the Alta HR's just a bit too large to sport both comfortably, and the OLED display makes a static watch face superfluous.
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In short, the federal judiciary has made the PSA entirely superfluous: packer conduct toward individual producers may be unfair, unjustly discriminatory or even deceptive so long as it does not violate anti-trust prohibitions against restraints of trade and monopolization.
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The series's most superfluous device is a flash-forward to 1978; the actresses Joan Blondell (Kathy Bates) and Olivia de Havilland (Catherine Zeta-Jones) are being interviewed by a documentary crew, offering pithy comments that sum up what we've already seen.
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As was the case with the Longmont case, Gabriel said, the Fort Collins moratorium would render the state's statutes and regulatory scheme superfluous for at least a lengthy period, materially impeding Colorado's interests in efficient development of oil and gas resources.
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Part of this has to do with how skillful and fluid a writer she is otherwise — the facts seem to tumble forth, in a way that makes her jokes feel superfluous (when they aren't awful) and strenuous (when they are).
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Although Backpage was repeatedly cited in Congress as the reason the bills were necessary, neither was in effect when the FBI took action Friday—demonstrating to many that such laws are entirely superfluous, serving only to subjugate sex workers and endanger their lives.
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Take China, which currently has 193 gigawatts under construction and 515 gigawatts in various stages of planning — roughly half of the proposed coal capacity worldwide: As I've reported before, there's a reasonable argument that many of these proposed coal plants are superfluous.
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For example, here is something I would say to a boy on the internet: One: I totally understand the impulse to be horrified when someone decides to make what you consider a superfluous remake of a movie that is important to you.
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Several hours in, it's still unclear how scanning dinosaurs will help me find a cure, but honestly the plot is almost superfluous to the experience of getting a close encounter with all sorts of wild creatures with names like pliosaurus, ophthalmosaurus, and dakosaurus.
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The foreign service officials who have testified privately in support of the whistleblower's charges have eroded GOP arguments that the initial account is unreliable because it was learned secondhand, say Democrats, who contend the whistleblower's testimony is now superfluous to their investigation.
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" Bakht and Palmer add that the law is superfluous to overarching fraud laws: "While there is a social good inherent in preventing fraud, the line between legitimate practices, such as religious prophecy or spiritualism, and illegitimate or criminal pretending seems arbitrarily drawn.
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He points out that the concept of the "bachelor pad" was invented by Playboy in the 22016s, essentially to train men to be consumers of superfluous homegoods in the way that women were, and that the man cave postdates the bachelor pad.
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Segway is not necessarily known as the coolest of tech companies, with a name that evokes the idea of superfluous, touristy technology, but the brand is now trying to remedy with that with something unexpected: a robotic butler that users can ride.
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But the "Quiet Please" signs held up by the course stewards did seem rather superfluous as the trains clattered by at close range, sometimes slowing down for the passengers — or perhaps the conductor — to get a longer look at the world's best golfers.
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They have rebuilt their minor-league development program, astutely assessed which prospects to hold onto and which to deal, and plucked diamonds in the rough, like center fielder Aaron Hicks and Gregorius, and perhaps first baseman Luke Voit, in exchange for superfluous parts.
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" And in a remarkable concluding paragraph to his eight-page opinion, he added: "For those of us who work in marbled halls, guarded constantly by a vigilant and dedicated police force, the guarantees of the Second Amendment might seem antiquated and superfluous.
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In Basel, turning the corner and discovering the black oily-looking ink with pink champagne painting-machine/painting "The Lovers" (1991) — and approaching its techno-lovers in flagrante delicto — lifts both sex and painting preconceptions out of their superfluous state of solipsistic sluggishness.
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A chapter on middle-age job-seekers who once worked as computer programmers or newspaper reporters captures the fallout of a discriminatory job market, which tells older unemployed people they should buck up and start over while also making them feel superfluous.
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The only reason publicly cited by Mr. Nazarbayev to explain why he did not want Turkish-style phonetic markers is that "there should not be any hooks or superfluous dots that cannot be put straight into a computer," he said in September.
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There are so many ways in which TV crossovers can feel superfluous, but Netflix earned my respect, as well as an actual (and frankly startling) bark of laughter, with a particularly well-deployed one in the third season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
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The latest figure, which reflects a reduction in swaps notional equivalent to US$1,000trn, or 13 times global GDP, comes after banks embraced compression in response to stringent leverage ratio treatment under Basel III, tearing up superfluous contracts to slim down bloated derivatives portfolios.
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As I eat more of the tortilla and listen to Gil and Snukal's tortilla philosophies, the pristine, fried, flaky pieces of battered wild Pacific cod that the tortilla is supposed to contain somehow become superfluous in light of this impressive specimen of Mexico's staple food.
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As if to underline how superfluous his national-security adviser had become, Trump announced three weeks later that, rather than give Kim Jong Un a bloody nose, he would break with decades of American precedent and hold direct talks with the North Korean leader.
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In the face of a double team, a steady diet of pick-and-pop 19 footers isn't good enough; as more and more teams trap Oladipo, it'll be interesting to see who earns the bulk of that responsibility as his partner, and who becomes superfluous.
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One evening, as we sat in the gloaming dimness of his library, Kubitschek delivered a long lament about what he perceived to be the ills of modernity: banal consumption, the decline of Christian belief (Kubitschek is a Catholic), mechanization that is making workers superfluous.
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While smaller influencers are like one-person businesses who deal with every step from content creation to expense reports, bigger creators are able to hyper-focus on the most important work and leave the superfluous tasks to a team of assistants, managers, and even accountants.
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I'm excited that he's on board with the fun that is decorating the house for holidays, I know a lot of friends whose partners think stuff like this is superfluous, but he even talks about wanting to get things that our kids will remember.
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Turning the corner and discovering the lovers in flagrante delicto, and approaching this enormous spray-drip piece for a better look creates a jolt of self-conscious connection/disconnection that lifts both sex and painting out of their superfluous state of sluggish, solipsistic melancholia.
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The 2019 version contains its own revisions of the text, some of which seem completely superfluous, such as a brief excursion into an Italian villa, and it ends on a defeatist note, as opposed to the hopeful ending of the novel and the film.
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Begley, who works as a science journalist for the website Stat, empathetically portrays a range of compulsive people in her book, including those who can't stop playing Candy Crush, writing in their diaries, collecting old boxes, shopping for superfluous clothes, and pulling out their own hair.
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To Apple's credit, that formula is often successful, though as time goes on, a lot of people might argue that some of Apple's recent features like butterfly keyboards and Touch Bar are often seen as superfluous extras, or in some cases straight downgrades from their previous iterations.
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READMEFrontRow is one of the more sleek wearables out there, but like its counterparts, it's still a superfluous purchase if you already have a high-end smartphone The USB-C connector is the most sustainable part of this deviceStop trying to capitalize on my mediocre life
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Election experts give high marks to Virginia, which recently became the last state to decertify the infamous WINVote touchscreen machines, which in the right circumstance could allow a hacker sitting in a nearby parking lot to exploit the equipment via the device's superfluous Wi-Fi capability.
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Compared to experiences with a larger movement space or fully tracked hand controllers, like Vive and Rift sports games or Google's own Tilt Brush VR painting app, Daydream motion mechanics feel superfluous or even annoying, especially since it's easy to accidentally move too far and pause everything.
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In particular, the apps that let you digitally overlay makeup seem like an extension of the Netflix-Seamless on-demand continuum: The day may be near when leaving your house seems superfluous, for you could beam out a flawlessly done up photo of yourself from the couch.
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If you think California's new law requiring publicly traded companies headquartered in the state to have at least one women on their board is a superfluous bill in an era when women have no trouble rising up the corporate ladder, then you have not been paying attention.
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While Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool in the film Deadpool is witty and endearing (I can hardly believe it, but it's true!), Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool in promotional materials for Deadpool and in promotional materials for Ryan Reynolds' completely superfluous comeback is one long, excruciating dad joke.
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Aside from some superfluous contemporary references—having the Kardashian children chant their own name, and endure a lecture on how "being a good person is more important than being famous" from their father—"American Crime Story" looks poised to be one of the year's television highlights.
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More importantly, Russia has learned the art of using natural resource sales as a weapon: cutting off natural gas sales to Ukraine and Europe twice in the past two decades, and building economically superfluous pipelines to gain the ability to reward friends and punish foes with alacrity.
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" Tim O'Brien, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Manchester asked "why don't we all just celebrate the shared experience of seeing the International Space Station (or many other satellites), which actually has humans on it and is doing something useful, unlike this superfluous stunt.
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Enter Vice President Aaron Burr (of Alexander Hamilton fame), who, as Senate president, decided in 1805 that the Senate rules needed to be streamlined, and persuaded his colleagues to abandon what he considered to be a superfluous rule; namely, that a majority could cut off debate.
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It is superfluous to say that Bly is one of the legends of contemporary poetry, which never got over its bewilderment at producing him; reasonably or not, he remains the prototypical non-modernist, the one who set in motion a poetics of intensity for generations to come.
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I think Arendt would point to things like the prison system in the States, to the housing estates in London, to the forgotten spaces in Middle America with no role to play in this booming global economy — Arendt would say these are the new homes for superfluous people.
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Having played around with Lenovo's product, Google has some very pretty software for their Smart Displays but there are some strange quirks given that the screen is basically superfluous by design as it can't ever assumed that the speaker can see the screen when an answer is being given.
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It would understate things to say that an emotional transfer kicked in when I put on the sleek two-button suit, whose details — pick-stitched lapels; deep double vents; waist adjusters (to eliminate a belt's bisecting ugliness); a superfluous yet appealingly anachronistic ticket pocket — contributed to the spell.
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Mario Maker 2 does add a largely superfluous "story" mode with a bunch of short but clever levels and an eye-raising amount of references to abusive management practices by Toadette, but outside of growing your familiarity with the game's new tools and gizmos, you'll graduate past this fast.
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It's quite common, really, since condiments tend to be the thing we think of as sort of superfluous, so we use them once and promptly erase the memory of the jar in our fridge, where it's doomed to sit until you clean the appliance out when you move.
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At first glance, this focus on Kubernetes may look like it's going to make Cloud Foundry superfluous, but it's worth remembering that, at its core, the Cloud Foundry Application Runtime isn't about infrastructure but about a developer experience and methodology that aims to manage the whole application development lifecycle.
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So, it makes no sense that where infection is most likely to be transmitted — in hospitals and other medical facilities — reasonably healthy patients have continued to be welcomed for elective procedures that expose them and clinicians to the risk of infection, while using critical resources for currently superfluous purposes.
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Bonus points for Arbitrary Capitalizations, superfluous "quotation marks" and spelling erors that everyone has stopped mocking because it's now more sad than funny; penalty for drawing the Self-Incriminating Statement card, which forces your lawyers to devise absurd excuses for it when they land on morning talk show squares.
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" He&aposs directed so many masterpieces at this point that it seems rather superfluous to praise David Fincher, but when you combine Fincher with an Aaron Sorkin screenplay, the result is something that should probably be acknowledged and revered, which is exactly what we get with "The Social Network.
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All this seems super superfluous though, because most people listen to music on their smartphones and can already ask a smartphone assistant like Siri to play songs; Monster's only real perk here is that its assistant can handle requests to play albums, which Siri can only do for Apple Music.
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It's funny to think how they've always been something to scorn with PC design, and "smart bulbs" are the first thing that comes to mind when I think of superfluous smart home scenarios — but narrow it down to just lights doing the work of lighting, and LEDs are the clear winner.
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Hints of that coming debate came from Mr Spahn, who refrained from criticising Mrs Merkel in his speech but branded the election result a "bitter" disappointment and claimed the CDU needs to close off the space to its political right, to make the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party "superfluous".
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At first mention, the idea of buying a fragrance strictly for the hair seems like something better suited for a high-school kid that doesn't want to get caught hanging around people who smoke cigarettes — or maybe someone with gobs of money to throw around on superfluous but good-smelling nothings.
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From what we can tell, he's not the kind of artist who spends endless hours crafting glitches of pixel paintings and writing esoteric, pompous "artist statements" on the virtual as paradigm or many of the other self-conscious and often superfluous trappings that often interfere with artworks from this particular scene.
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"Like I said repeatedly last year, saying tampons are superfluous but other hygiene products like hand sanitizer and tissues are totally necessary reinforces the idea that our rules are written by men, for men, and that women are merely second-class citizens on Capitol Hill," Maloney said in a statement.
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And when I think she's on her way to bed, so that her tortured soul will finally have some peace, she will remember something and hurry across to the desk, to compose some long screed or epistle which the next day will turn out to be perfectly meaningless and superfluous.
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That fight began with the FBI's legally superfluous Order To Compel on Thursday: the order generated lots of headlines, coming just three days after the initial order to aid decryption of the phone, but until Apple's lawyers file an official response to the first order, motions like this are legally meaningless.
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The stories we can tell about why ATMs would replace all bank tellers, or online learning would displace most teachers, or digital diagnostic tools would make many doctors superfluous, are at least as convincing as the stories we can tell about AI-driven job displacement, and the technology is already here.
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It seems that with the later introduction in Leviticus of a law banning all male homosexual intercourse, it became expedient to bring the earlier material up-to-date by doing away with two now-superfluous injunctions against homosexual incest — injunctions that made sense when sex between men was otherwise allowed.
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With different nonproprietary names and superfluous information in labels, the use of biosimilars might be questioned by health professionals and patients, negating the good work that has been accomplished in trying to catch up with other countries that have been utilizing biosimilars — with the same nonproprietary names — for many years.
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The predominance of immersive installations, the superfluous, often deadening use of Leonard Cohen's music and voice, and the kid-friendly bean bag chairs scattered across many of the galleries indicate an experience that wants to strike at a cultural taste many parents share while also providing ample sensory stimulation for their children.
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" This inventory reassessment not only promises to provide discounts on the "right" items, but also to make the sale process more efficient in general — with the elimination of superfluous sale flyers and, as the press release states, clearer emphasis on only the "best, most compelling sales — when it makes the most sense.
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The vast majority of phones purchased in the US are bought in carrier or other retail stores, and it's rare for a device to be sold by a carrier without loads of extra bloatware and superfluous branding to remind you who you pay each month for service each time you pick it up.
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The songs feel so superfluous to the movie's narrative, especially compared to the much more sophisticated ways many other composer/musician biopics and dramas have handled the integration of the music into the storytelling (think of Walk the Line or What's Love Got to Do With It, for example, or even 8 Mile).
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That determination had its drawbacks: An exciting Big Ten title game between Penn State and Wisconsin was telegraphed beforehand as superfluous, and Ohio State did not exactly hold up its end of the bargain when it managed only 113 yards, and zero points, against the eventual national champion, Clemson, in their playoff semifinal.
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Six new songs, eight tracks, kicked off by the atypical ululations that announce the atypically relaxed title opener and highlighted by three versions of the apparently Senegal-centric "Mbeguël Is All" unimpeded by the superfluous guitar intro of the live one, as well as two very similar mixes featuring kora master Toumani Diabate.
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When I think about the most superfluous parts of my skin-care arsenal — the products I use that are probably more fun than they are effective — I think about the "detoxifying" booster drops I add to my night cream, the exfoliating scrub for my eyebrows, and the sheet masks made just for my neck.
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You can probably imagine the frustration of reporting on Apple's iPhone 11 launch with a temperamental space bar and keyboard—transcribing Tim Cook's talk of making "products and technologies that are designed in the service of humanity" is a lot more difficult when you have to go back and add spaces and remove superfluous characters.
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With all of that in mind, here's where to buy the best armchairs: Best armchairs overall: West ElmBest classic armchairs: Crate & BarrelBest budget armchairs: AmazonBest recliners: Macy'sBest armchair in a box: BurrowThe best ottomansAdding an ottoman to a living room may seem superfluous, but if you have space for one, it is actually a genius piece of furniture.
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These differ from the obfuscation and incompetence of which Zapruder rightly complains, for exquisite ambiguity and elegant intelligence result from the subtlety of artful poetic syntax and the deliberate preference for precise verbs (avoiding the verb "to be" in all its forms) in substitution for the proliferation of foggy adjectives and superfluous adverbs so common in prose.
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"Original" is always a relative term, however, since the car is an aluminum-bodied racer designed to be driven flat-out for as long as possible (Ferrari regarded a speedometer as superfluous to the design.) The engine of the Talacrest car was replaced around 1964 and the body was "completely" restored in 1976-1977, according to Mr. Collins.
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We're to the point where it seems as though VR is no longer the next big thing for a lot of companies, but rather a stepping stone or stopgap on the way to AR. But it's nothing new to introduce seemingly superfluous hardware that eventually matures to become just an expected part of gaming on computers.
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For those who think fashion is superfluous and useless, what will be the most shocking is how much meaning we can extract from a single item, whether it's the capri pants Mary Tyler Moore wore while revolutionizing the role of the housewife on the Dick Van Dyke Show, or the turtleneck as worn by both Apple cofounder Steve Jobs and activist Angela Davis.
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Perhaps the reason the liberal middle-class is so pessimistic is because a lot of them suspect that what they do adds little or no value to the economy around them, and that because of AI or another recession, there will be some kind of reckoning when we realise that our economy has turned millions of workers into superfluous people.
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Today's users can live without access to many traditional cable TV channels, which they see as largely superfluous to the content they can watch over the air for free through their digital antennas, or from on-demand streaming services they pay for, like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, HBO NOW, and others – all of which are also filled with original content.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's offer last week of the post of defense minister to Avigdor Lieberman, a pugnacious ultranationalist politician, is the latest act in the war between Mr. Netanyahu and the military and intelligence leaders, a conflict that has no end in sight but could further erode the rule of law and human rights, or lead to a dangerous, superfluous military campaign.
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Assuming the source car is in good condition, it doesn't take a whole lot for Pollitz and SEVA members to take customers back to the future: Hoist out the oil-sucking internal combustion engine, haul the now superfluous radiator, starter, and exhaust pipe to the nearest scrapyard, and you're well on your way to total deliverance from the gasoline market.
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The coupling of Indian and Chinese, then, would seem like another superfluous mashup if it weren't for the fact that it was conceived not by overzealous food magnates but by Hakka immigrants living in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) more than a century ago, owing as much to homesickness as to a genuine affection for the sweetness and pungent heat of their adopted country.
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The film starts with a fairly formulaic introductory sequence, recounting Hendrix's career up until that point — which feels somewhat superfluous and footnotes earlier footage shot by Goldstein and his collaborators into blink-and-you'll-miss-it fragments — but once it arrives at the concert itself, its magic begins, with Hendrix speaking for himself through performances and candid moments from earlier on that day.
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Now, I sometimes feel sadness for people who didn't engage online in the same way back then, because as superfluous as some of those conversations might have seemed at the time, the friendships I formed brought me: friends in real life; people to talk me through bad times; matching tattoos; and even my first apartment, as decrepit as it was.
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For all those who cannot skip work, I propose another way to support this strike: If you're able, I urge you to redirect funds that you would have spent on superfluous purchases to healthcare organizations that provide necessary services to underserved folks and are overwhelmingly staffed by women, like Planned Parenthood, your local LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS clinics, and intimate partner violence shelters.
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Facebook Live, Periscope and Meerkat (from left) Facebook Live, Periscope and Meerkat (from left) Now the question is whether Twitter can reinvigorate Periscope despite the competition, or have its own app carry the live-streaming torch, and whether the separate app will languish as a superfluous tool or if Twitter will shut down Periscope as a discrete product the way it announced it will do with Vine.
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Proving the painting's flatness with frontal shapes or solid stripes must have seemed superfluous or monotonous to him; he wanted movement; he wanted your eyes to dance and skitter across the painting, where the ground might be mottled or solid, where the shifts of color and surface pull you closer, where the space between the planes and vibrate or smolder, where color intensities vary considerably.
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It's easy to forget in 2017 that one of the long-prevailing theories about art since at least the 19th century has been that it doesn't necessarily serve a practical purpose; that its point, to quote the English critic Walter Pater, is ''frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass'' — money, then, becomes a superfluous part of the conversation.
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And while you're at it, you might as well take a moment to direct ZEUS on a stroll around your connected home (it can totally walk) to efficiently deliver a swift metal punch to each and every piece of superfluous tech that at some point or another promised you happiness only to eventually and inevitably leave you even sadder and lonelier than you were in the first place.
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What's tricky here is that you can see Beaufoy became really enamored of a lot of the biographical detail he found out about the Gettys, and our understanding of the characters is enriched by some stuff that should be superfluous, like, say, J. Paul Getty keeping a harem (and a surprising amount of consideration paid to how an elderly man can possibly expect to perform sexually in such a situation).
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When Moonee and her pals kick a plastic bag, or knock on a door with a drumming of both fists, you sense a superfluous energy that begs to be burned off; it harks back to the cocky schoolboy, in " The 400 Blows " (1959), who peels away from the squad of pupils, led by the phys-ed teacher, and crosses the Paris street in a jiving strut, clapping his hands.
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