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The Indonesian version of Brahmanda Purana is much shorter, lacks superfluous adjectives but contains all essential information, and does not contain the prophecy-related chapters found in the published extant Indian version.
Wabi-sabi can be described as "the most conspicuous and characteristic feature of what we think of as traditional Japanese beauty. It occupies roughly the same position in the Japanese pantheon of aesthetic values as do the Greek ideals of beauty and perfection in the West."
Lists of pejorative terms for people include: . List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity; List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names
Superfluous means unnecessary or excessive. It may also refer to: Superfluous precision, the use of calculated measurements beyond significant figures;
(Here the "gun" refers to a monologue that Chekhov deemed superfluous and unrelated to the rest of the play.) "Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first act that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third act it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging ...
Pleonasm (/ ˈ p l iː. ə ˌ n æ z əm /; from Ancient Greek πλεονασμός pleonasmós, from πλέον pléon 'to be in excess') [1] [2] is redundancy in linguistic expression, such as in "black darkness," "burning fire," "the man he said," [3] or "vibrating with motion."
There's also several superfluous adjectives and adverbs that should be trimmed (e.g. the concept draws several direct connections, including links between the extraordinary expenses associated with raising children, both "direct" and "extraordinary" provide unwarranted emphasis).
is inane. Without "magnificently opulent" the uninitiated reader and uninitiated editor may think that most Greek altars look pretty much like this. Let's keep obvious adjectives that characterise objects, paintings, buildings etc and serve to make the reader look again at the illustrations; they help create the encyclopedia. Deleting isn't ...