9 examples of inessential in sentences

They seemed to her inessential.

The usual attempts at stricter definition of epic than anything this chapter contains, are either, in spite of what they try for, so vague that they would admit almost any long stretch of narrative poetry; or else they are based on the accidents or devices of epic art; and in that case they are apt to exclude work which is essentially epic because something inessential is lacking.

We are, indeed, afforded brief glimpses into the past both of Stensgaard and of Stockmann; but the glimpses are incidental and inessential.

Any given audience has only a certain measure of attention at command, and to claim attention for inessentials is to diminish the stock available for essentials.

He had drawn from the mental confusion of the darker German philosophers an image of the perfect manan image differing only in inessentials from the idol worshipped by the Imperialists as "efficiency."

It strips away the inessential, and makes brothers.

It eliminates the inessential and preserves the proportions; above all, it preserves the figure of Emily Brontë, solitary and unique.

Within the limits of nature and mortal life the hope of any equal development of the soul seems folly; yet, so far as my judgment extends, in men of the same race and community it appears to me that the sameness in essentials is so great as to leave the differences inessential, so far as power to take hold of life and possess it in thought, will, or feeling is in question.

We added that, whether such movements were caused by trickery or not, was inessential as long as the savage did not discover the imposture.

9 examples of  inessential  in sentences