Overstuffed

A sentence in a story has a large but finite range of purposes it can serve. Here's a roundup of likely candidates:Advancing the narrative
Showing character
Being beautiful
Establishing the setting
Having an emotional effect on the reader, including, but not limited to:
pathos
joy
mirth
disgust
arousal
curiosity
I've probably missed a couple important ones here, but you get the idea.
In good writing, every sentence should do at least one of these things. A passage that does none of them does not belong i...