Quotes About Redundant

Rock seems a little bit redundant now because it really is what country is. It's the voice of America and rock 'n' roll used to be that.

1948). The formal ceremony was legally redundant, but it was a nice event for our relatives and for the staff.

I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.

Free scientific inquiry? The first adjective is redundant.

The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

In San Francisco, Halloween is redundant.

He wanted to ask why, but the question was so obvious, just hanging out there within easy view, that to voice it would be redundant.

Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel of cider. ("Hard" cider is a twentieth-century term, redundant before then since virtually all cider was hard until modern refrigeration allowed people to keep sweet cider sweet.)

revert back is commonly seen and always redundant: 'If no other claimant can be found, the right to the money will revert back to her' (Daily Telegraph). Delete back.

all intents and purposes is colourless, redundant and hackneyed. Almost any other expression would be an improvement. 'He is, to all intents and purposes, king of the island' (Mail on Sunday) would be instantly made better by changing the central phrase to 'in effect' or removing it altogether. If the phrase must be used at all, it can always be shorn of the last two words. 'To all intents' says as much as 'to all intents and purposes'.

advance planning. The advance in advance planning is always redundant. All planning must be done in advance.

different. Often used unnecessarily. 'He plays milkmaid to more than 50 different species of poisonous snake' (Observer); 'The phenomenally successful Rubik Cube, which has 43,252,002,274,489,856,000 different permutations but only one solution' (Sunday Times); '[He] published at least five different books on grammar' (Simon, Paradigms Lost). Frequently, as in each of these examples, it can be deleted without loss.

MISOGYNISTIC PRICK," Nikki muttered as she descended Nilsen's front steps. "That's redundant," Seley pointed out. "For emphasis," Nikki said

There are those for whom the spectacular successes of science have rendered religion redundant; and there are others for whom those successes spring from a fundamental fact - that our minds seem somehow attuned to the fundamental stuff of the world - which is itself cause for metaphysical reflection.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And when those plants were put into operation, they were required to have double and triple redundant safety systems.

Christian faith is therefore a "prophetic" faith that seeks to mend the world. An idle or redundant faith—a faith that does not seek to mend the world—is a seriously malfunctioning faith

When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks, and there's always a certain level of tension in your life. The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

Without question, students need to practice, review, and drill skills, but they should do so only in the spirit of working toward more complex mastery of those skills. Redundant drill of skills is inherently boring and insulting to the learner, and it is one of the most effective methods for turning students off to learning.

supernumerary

I found out that the idea of the Internet as a highly distributed, redundant global communications system is a myth,'' he discovered. "Virtually all communications between countries take place through a very small number of bottlenecks, and the available bandwidth simply isn't that great.

Again, redundant—as are 'flattering parasite' and the others.

superfluous

maybe that's redundant. Maybe that's the only kind of attorney there is.

When it comes to anniversaries, the publishing industry usually resembles distant relatives, readiest with gifts that are redundant or farcical.