Needlessly Sentence Examples

Their refutation of the Protestant positions seemed needlessly sharp to the emperor, and five drafts were made of it.

A complaint having been made to the emperor that he was needlessly protracting hostilities, he was recalled, but he was consul (for the second time) in 66.

He assisted others who came to him for spiritual advice; and seeing the fruit reaped from helping his neighbour, he gave up the extreme severities in which he had delighted and began to take more care of his person, so as not needlessly to offend those whom he might influence for good.

The importance of this singular but superficial departure from the normal structure has been so needlessly exaggerated as a character that at the present time its value is apt to be unduly depreciated.

Much buying might take place when stocks were scanty, with the result that prices would be needlessly forced up; and when stocks were plentiful demand might be weak and prices, therefore, be unduly depressed.

With regard to the statement that the companies had installed competitive systems and had expended capital needlessly, it was found by the Post Office authorities that in 1865 less than 2000 m.

He wondered if other werewolves lived in the area, however, if he called her and there weren't any close enough to help, she would be upset needlessly.

Ed had suffered needlessly for hours because she had done something careless – after promising she wouldn't.

The liberal school of thought of which Mohler was a prominent exponent was discouraged in official circles, while Protestants, on the other hand, complain that the author failed to grasp thoroughly the significance of the Reformation as a great movement in the spiritual history of mankind, while needlessly dwelling on the doctrinal shortcomings, inconsistencies and contradictions of its leaders.

Though it is perhaps needlessly long, the thread of the story is never lost amid a crowd of details; every incident is made subordinate to the general idea, appears in its appropriate place, and contributes its share to the perfection of the whole.

Much splendid timber has been needlessly destroyed, chiefly by forest-fires, but also by improvident farmers in their haste to clear the land.

They, and especially the latter, are diffuse and often lax in expression, needlessly prolix, and pompously rhetorical.

She was called " The Swedish Sappho," and scandal has been needlessly busy in giving point to the allusion.

As has been demonstrated the action taken was one of vacillation between these two courses, and was complicated by a native policy which, though well intentioned and intelligible, needlessly irritated the white colonists (British and Dutch) and did not prevent bloodshed.

After a brief residence with his mother, who was needlessly alarmed at the idea of her son falling a victim to some casual coquette, Swift towards the close of 1689 entered upon an engagement as secretary to Sir William Temple, whose wife (Dorothy Osborne) was distantly related to Mrs Swift.

In one of these trifling affairs on the 27th of August 1782, on the Combahee river, Laurens exposed himself needlessly and was killed.

This hedonism has perplexed Plato's readers needlessly (as we have said in speaking of the Cyrenaics), inasmuch as hedonism is the most obvious corollary of the Socratic doctrine that the different common notions of good - the beautiful, the pleasant and the useful - were to be somehow interpreted by each other.

If the magnification be greater than the resolving power demands, the observation is not only needlessly made more difficult, but the entrance pupil is diminished, and with it a very considerable decrease of clearness, for with an objective of a certain aperture the size of the exit pupil depends upon the magnification.

From the day he met her – when she needlessly challenged the fox in the chicken house – it had been apparent that she needed his protection.

Ed had suffered needlessly for hours because she had done something careless – after promising she wouldn't.

But they are apt to run wild, to get needlessly brisk, unpleasantly incessant.

The root of the goal came in a needlessly hurried clearance by Stuart McCluskey which immediately had Falkirk driving on top of our defense.

Why do people make their travel arrangements needlessly complicated?

While running the Form Market, Chrissie notes the misery caused by needlessly complicated forms.

After the scandal of the needlessly high casualty toll of the Crimean War (1854-56 ), an assumption had taken firm hold.

His papers are often difficult to read, but never diffuse or tedious; his mathematical treatment is never needlessly abstruse, for when his analysis is complicated it is only so because the subject-matter is complicated.

It is only to be regretted that the Society did not also adopt the quarto size in which it appeared, for by issuing their English version in folio they needlessly put an impediment in the way of its common and convenient use.

The ascription to Africanus of an encyclopaedic work entitled Kestoi (embroidered girdles), treating of agriculture, natural history, military science, &c., has been needlessly disputed on account of its secular and often credulous character.

Secondly, their form left much to be desired; for one of them at least was rude in style, sometimes needlessly repetitive and sometimes brief to obscurity.

Miss Sullivan never needlessly belittled her ideas or expressions to suit the supposed state of the child's intelligence.

Hopefully we've shown you the wisdom of choosing small dog houses over needlessly roomy ones.

This may be readily done without needlessly checking them, as they form so many fibrous roots that a good ball of soil usually adheres to them.

There are many other phone services available that needlessly pad your bill.

You'd just be needlessly concerned.

Aurivillius considered that Pollicipes signatus showed a closer approach to the Balanidae than any other of the Lepadidae, but he, too, in ignorance of the Devonian Protobalanus (Whitf.), discoursed needlessly about the gap in the distribution.