But although the mind instinctlvely rejects all needless complexity, we shall greatly err if we fail to recognise the fact, that what the mind recoils from is not the complexity, but the needlessness.

You see the horrors and the needlessness, the logical side of war, and you brush the thought away from you.

Polonius thinks she is about to disclose what has passed, and informs her of its needlessness.

It is hoped that the study of this little work will not only throw light upon the causes of war in general, but will also reveal its cruelty and its needlessness.

Thought of the needlessness of it wrung from him: "Annhow could you!"

And, after commending this work of Johnson's, as A STANDARD, from which, "it is earnestly to be hoped, that no author will henceforth, on light grounds, be tempted to innovate," he adds, "This Dictionary, however, contains some orthographical inconsistencies which ought to be rectified: such as, immovable, moveable; chastely, chastness; fertileness, fertily; sliness, slyly; fearlessly, fearlesness; needlessness, needlesly.

I told the doctor all about the preliminary verbal skirmish and the needlessness of the fight.

Which is the most important teaching of the story: the importance of an unquestioning faith and obedience, or the needlessness of human sacrifice?