For my purpose, the determination of its absolute duration is wholly unessential.

It was like a woman, he thought, to fasten upon the unessential.

He leaves all such unessential trifles to his housekeeper, Mrs. Maggie McGurk.

Tolerance has to tolerate the unessential; and to see well what that is.

Questions of this unessential sort dribbled on for a considerable time.

Feeling and noise were alike accidental unessential adjuncts and nothing more.

It was deemed 'unessential', despite many canines needing their daily walks for health reasons.

The severity of her self-denial was directed entirely against the trivial and the unessential.

They differed only in some unessential details concerning the condition of that lost state.

She prepared hot water and bustled with unessential occupation.

Rites and the paraphernalia of religion are essential till one learns that they are unessential.

We do not tell the one God, and wholly unessential whether Mahomet was His prophet.

I deem it unessential to verify Mr. Booth's statistics.

Nothing is unessential, nothing unforeseen by the All-seeing.

The doctor stared slightly at the unessential query.

I shall omit names, since they are unessential.