10 QUOTES WITH «SUPERFLUOUS»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
superfluous.
Modeling is a lonely business... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.
I love the idea of 3D, but it's completely superfluous to most stories.
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUPERFLUOUS»
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superfluous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
superfluous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in ...
Craig Clunas analyzes superfluous things - the paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics, carved jade, and other objects owned by the elites of Ming China - and describes contemporary attitudes to them.
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First Love and the Diary of a
Superfluous Man
This volume features two of Turgenev's best works of short fiction: the touching First Love (1860), a semi-autobiographical novella, and The Diary of a Superfluous Man (1850), the fascinating tale of a Russian Hamlet.
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The diary of a
superfluous man, and other stories
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev. What ill-judged, petty curiosity! But I swear that it was
not curiosity which had flamed up in me. In truth, it simply seemed to me
impossible not to discover, eventually, who they were, after accident had so
strangely ...
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, 1907
He was executed four months later. Close to the end of his incarceration, in little doubt as to the nature of his impending fate, Qu spent five days writing Superfluous Words, his frank and uncompromising prison memoirs.
Qiubai Qu, Jamie Greenbaum, 2005
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The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature
ELLEN CHANCES The 'superfluous man' (lishaii chehvek) is a term that, since
the mid-nineteenth century, has been applied to a particular type of character in
Russian literature. Ivan Turgenev's work of 1850. The Diary of a Superfluous Man
...
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Superfluous people: a reflection on Hannah Arendt and evil
Superfluous People describes Hannah Arendt's political and philosophical views on Nazi totalitarianism and the Shoah.
Cornelis Van Hattem, Kees van Hattem, 2005
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Exile: The Sense of Alienation in Modern Russian Letters
Modern Russian letters arise through an encounter with Western European
letters, and a figure who soon makes his appearance in the wake of that
encounter is the superfluous man. He appears, moreover, not just as another
literary type but ...
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The Novels and Stories of Iván Turgénieff: The diary of a ...
Superfluous, superfluous. . . . That 's a capital word I have devised. The more
deeply I penetrate into myself, the more attentively I scrutinise the whole of my
own past life, the more convinced do I become of the strict justice of that
expression.
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, 1922
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The
Superfluous Men: Conservative Critics of American ...
Samplings from contributors such as Ralph Adams Cram, Allen Tate, and Walter Lippmann help bring together a volume representing the most neglected period in American conservatism--the first half of the 20th century.
Robert Morse Crunden, 1999
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Superfluous Southerners: Cultural Conservatism and the ...
Cultural Conservatism and the South, 1920-1990 John J. Langdale. “inveterate
and persistent optimism” was, Charles Eliot Norton wrote in 1873, “dangerous
doctrine for a people” because it tended to degenerate into “fatalistic indifference
to ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUPERFLUOUS»
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superfluous is used in the context of the following news items.
County Councilwoman Says Legislative Branch Of County …
At a news conference ahead of the commission's meeting Tuesday afternoon, Heidelbaugh called the council “superfluous,” citing a 91.8 percent passage rate ... «90.5 WESA, Jul 15»
Opinion: Greek referendum is superfluous
Opinion: Greek referendum is superfluous. By holding a referendum, the Greek government wants to wash its hands of the responsibility for the looming chaos. «Deutsche Welle, Jun 15»
Savior to superfluous: Red Sox send Rusney Castillo back to Triple-A
Clubhouse Insider Boston Red Sox News. Savior to superfluous: Red Sox send Rusney Castillo back to Triple-A. 21CASTILLO.jpg. Photo by: Associated Press. «Boston Herald, Jun 15»
'Superfluous' lawyers milking super system
One of the superannuation industry's most senior figures has hit out at the legal profession for slugging super fund members who make successful disability ... «The New Daily, May 15»
Councillor wants to get rid of dozens of 'superfluous poles'
Cllr Duncan Smith (Lab) complained about a proliferation of 'superfluous poles' around the county and said the council should set a target of removing at least ... «Fingal Independent, May 15»
LivingSocial sells 'superfluous operations' in Australia, New Zealand
A LivingSocial spokesman told me the decision reflects the strategy under new CEO Gautam Thakar: Trimming away superfluous operations in order to refocus ... «Technical.ly DC, Apr 15»
Drivers superfluous at Geneva Motor Show
An annual pilgrimage for motor fans, the Geneva International Motor Show features some 130 new models and concept cars presented to its more than 700,000 ... «euronews, Mar 15»
Superfluous Selfie Sticks
To the Editor: In “Museum Rules for Selfie Age: Talk Softly, and Carry No Stick” (front page, Feb. 15), the ubiquity of selfies is treated as a given. So much so that ... «New York Times, Feb 15»
From Superflat to Superfluous: Why Show Mr.'s Art Now?
From Superflat to Superfluous: Why Show Mr.'s Art Now? by Jen Graves • Dec 29, 2014 at 12:04 pm. submit to reddit · This is part of an installation of trash and ... «TheStranger.com, Dec 14»
Into the Fray: A (superfluous) exercise in (inevitable) futility
Gush Katif. Media comment: The unethical media that disengaged itself. Jerusalem Post · Opinion. Into the Fray: A (superfluous) exercise in (inevitable) futility. «Jerusalem Post, Dec 14»
