(n.) A mass of timbers built into the bow and stern of a vessel to give solidity.
(n.) Dead trees or branches; useless material.
Example Sentences:
(1) "What Deadwood did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in and how that brought its own problems."
(2) I wanted the equivalent of the city slickers, from a very different world, turning up in Deadwood .
(3) For the sake of argument, if Deadwood and Battlestar Galactica were about equal through their first three seasons, why should Deadwood get a pass just because it didn't get a chance to have a disappointing finale?
(4) In theory this is the moment of pure patronage in British politics, the hours when the prime minister can ruthlessly remove the ministerial deadwood and driftwood, alongside the politically awkward or dispensable.
(5) Hill directed the pilot of Deadwood and the miniseries Broken Trail, and has movies such as The Long Riders , Geronimo and Wild Bill to his name.
(6) "You can't exactly sit them down and make them watch Deadwood.
(7) Inevitably, this also requires the retirement of political deadwood, which was traditionally accomplished without too much fuss by putting old hands out to the pasture of the Lords (a manoeuvre Yes Minister described as elevation and castration in one fell swoop).
(8) There are peaks, such as Lovejoy and Deadwood, and there are quieter passages, creatively-speaking, such as the mid-1970s ,when he concentrated on becoming a professional party animal.
(9) The development of America and capitalism has interested him particularly since he started making Deadwood in 2004.
(10) It employs and empties the entire filmic bag of tricks – from high-speed time-lapse montages to wide-open landscapes that are more John Ford than anything a revisionist western like Deadwood could ever allow itself.
(11) Robin Weigert ( Deadwood's Calamity Jane ) gives an ambivalent, sympathetic performance as Abby, a sometime interior decorator living outside New York City with her divorce-lawyer wife of two decades and their two sons.
(12) This man-of-the-people routine is probably the aspect of McShane most prized by audiences, and it can't be a coincidence that his two signature roles have been flipsides of the same roguish persona, one charming ( Lovejoy ), the other infinitely scuzzy (Al in Deadwood).
(13) "Jane had been watching Deadwood and realised what freedom was available now in television as opposed to film, where you've got a lot of ... a producer telling you you can't do this or that, and you have a lot of budgetary restraints," said Lee.
(14) His conversation can be rambunctious and matey, but he has a gentle manner, with none of the menace that fuelled the role for which he is now most admired: the late-18th-century brothel-keeper and bar-owner Al Swearengen in the pungent HBO western series Deadwood .
(15) I started imagining being one of those kids and how I would understand the world.” The setting also fed on Gibson’s own upbringing in small-town South Carolina, the film Winter’s Bone and the HBO series Deadwood , about a lawless town during the Gold Rush.
(16) ‘I’ll catch Deadwood on TV sometimes and be drawn in.
Superfluous
Definition:
(a.) More than is wanted or is sufficient; rendered unnecessary by superabundance; unnecessary; useless; excessive; as, a superfluous price.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tetracaine component of TAC is superfluous for obtaining topical anesthesia of minor dermal lacerations of the face in children.
(2) If exact indications are present, it can make a surgical intervention superfluous in selected cases.
(3) The surgical coordinates of the targets based on the stereotactic CT study with the Stereoadapter were on average as accurate as those obtained with ventriculography; therefore, ventriculography may become superfluous in functional stereotaxis.
(4) In many cases, the diagnosis is delayed, often being made only after comprehensive superfluous diagnostic procedures, sometimes invasive, and inappropriate treatment.
(5) 62 min Spain make a double substitution: Jesus Navas replaces the superfluous Sergio Busquets, and Fernando Torres replaces the disappointing David Silva.
(6) Tell me what will happen when the majority of mankind has become technologically superfluous."
(7) It is assumed that the neurotizing agent was the superfluous situational (photic) stimulation which presented excessive requirements to the mechanisms regulating the general functional state of the brain.
(8) Seen from the father's point of view, the son, on one hand represents the only solution for continuation of his life, the only possibility of victory over death, on the other hand however, he will substitute him one day, make him superfluous and eventually take his place.
(9) Feathering may be considered as a safety margin against spinal cord damage in medulloblastoma but it is superfluous in leukemia.
(10) In a later press statement, the Department of Health described the change as "a deep clean of superfluous national targets in favour of clearer, simpler standards".
(11) The great advances made in orthopaedic surgery over the last few decades have however not resulted in rehabilitative activity having become superfluous.
(12) Among reasons for inadequate numbers of doctors the author mentions in particular superfluous consulting, examinations in conjunction with assessment of the work capacity, and administrative work done by many doctors.
(13) Why, they ask, spend scarce public money on something that is both superfluous as a transport link and vastly expensive as a park?
(14) The effects of cue-load and cue-type (category and rhyming) on the cued recall of word lists were examined in amnesic and control subjects under conditions where contextual information was either important or superfluous to recall.
(15) For this reason a possible tooth involvement should be ruled out before therapy, loss of dental pulp of various origin and periodontal diseases should be excluded, otherwise the treatment must begin with the cause, after which further intervention is usually superfluous.
(16) Offering to these patients an adrenal autograft represents more than a superfluous medical exercise, since a successful outcome of the graft will relieve them of the burdens and risks of long-term postoperative steroid replacement therapy.
(17) The data obtained are suggestive of some "superfluity" of the protein steroid-binding site which, in turn, ensures the multifunctionality of estrophilic HSD including a possibility of an alternative orientation of steroids in their binding site.
(18) The findings of a questionnaire in 88 patients with 106 prostheses are presented, according to which substitution of the testis with a prosthesis is not a superfluous therapeutic procedure.
(19) Analysis of serial sections, and application of electron microscopic radioautography and histochemistry have suggested that these structures are associated with the nuclear envelope which is necessary for regulating the superfluous chromosome localization in the hybrid nucleus.
(20) Thus, the costly defibrillators delivering 400 to 800 joules now sold by 11 of 14 American manufacturers are superfluous, untested, potentially lethal devices with which to attempt ventricular defibrillation.