During the 17th and 18th century, the term implied incidental aspects of an entertainment (usually involving singing and dancing) that might be inserted in an opera or ballet or other stage performance.

This Virtual Mode was really not a simple thing, and some of its incidental aspects, such as the business of drinking the water of foreign Modes along the way, were tricky.

The fallacy is committed because of this diversion; it is fallacious to oppose a point on the basis of minor and incidental aspects, rather than responding to the main claim.

This seemed to be just another incidental aspect of the magic of Xanth.

Donald Gifford argues that civil liability has always been an "incidental aspect of public nuisance".

If long-term success depends upon incidental aspects of features evolved for different reasons, then how could we possibly know, if we rewound life's tape to a distant past, which groups were destined for success?

Once viewed as an incidental aspect of business to be handled by local managers, the hiring of temps is increasingly seen as a piece of the human resources pie big enough to command senior management attention.

I shall begin with the fulmination: company closures, brutal and inhumane restructurings, mass redundancies, sudden relocations; these are the unexpected and, I hope, incidental aspect of Europe's somewhat savage capitalism.

This was a useful incidental aspect of the Gorgon's dread talent.

The court could also deal with incidental aspects of a dispute that fell outside its jurisdiction if the primary dispute was within its jurisdiction.