Is it a version of the same infantile in-your-face bravado many of us affect to decry in gangsta rap, made doubly reprehensible for being expressed not by the disenfranchised and resentful but by the otiose and overprivileged?
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Yes, comparisons are otiose, but consider : The two longest-serving Boston Symphony conductors of this century, Serge Koussevitzky and Charles Munch, bagged their Harvard degrees after only five and seven years, respectively, of baton-wagging.
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Now a vague, otiose, spiritual being, the old woman once travelled across the land with a band of heroes and heroines, and during the ancestral period she gave birth to men and women as well as creating the natural species.
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:: : I would happily join you in a campaign to eliminate every instance of the otiose little hook from Wikipedia, and indeed from every other sample of written English .-- talk ) 22 : 35, 21 September 2015 ( UTC)
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He is also very fond of diminutives such as in Catullus 50 : " Hestero, Licini, die otiose / multum lusimus in meis tabellis " Yesterday, Licinius, was a day of leisure / playing many games in my little note books.
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In the same context and by the same token, Ramsey cites the verbal forms ( 3 )'It is a fact that _ _ _'and ( 4 )'_ _ _ is contrary to fact'as further examples of dispensable, otiose, redundant, or purely stylistic verbiage.
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At the very minimum, neither can be defined in such a way that renders the other otiose . " He noted that the respondent's counsel had not argued that the offence is inherently unconstitutional, and that a majority of cases had concluded that the real risk test, coupled with a right of fair criticism, is a reasonable limitation on free speech.
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He told a former Radio London colleague who invited him to a reunion that he refused to get involved in " this dated, rebarbative and otiose subject . " The actor-DJ who had thrived on a comedic onslaught by Dave Cash and Kenny Everett was careful to tell trainees that the only result if they did this to their own colleagues would be to make the butt of their jokes more popular, and their own ratings slide.
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The " New Statesman " says of Coward and the umlaut " a supercilious dandy, uttering epigrams in a voice constricted by snooty artifice; the umlaut he affected, which made no difference to the pronunciation of his name, was as otiose as a pair of strategically positioned beauty spots . " I think I agree with Tony on the linking of'simple'words; but then again, foreign-and younger-readers may be looking for an appreciation of the sense in which they are used . talk ) 15 : 37, 16 March 2009 ( UTC)
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Before he'd even hit puberty he had shot enemy troops, looted villages and brutally murdered civilians and all against his will . " The critic Natasha Harding, writing in The Sun on 25 July 2008, described " Gorilla Guerrilla " as a " thought-provoking tale beautifully told & dealing with, among other issues, man s relationship with nature . " Influenced by the work of the contemporary philosopher John N . Gray, in particular Straw Dogs : Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, the book, amongst other things, " renders the barriers that we erect between our species and others to protect our sense of uniqueness otiose, " according to the poet Nicholas Green.
