None of these deductions is particularly germane to the story: they are merely Holmesian logical exercises.

The driving thing is that it is a positive image associated with Atlantic City and whether it happens in September or October isn't particularly germane to us.

"In refusing to settle for long on such a limiting tactic, she presents an understanding of the problematics of a contingent self that is particularly germane today."

And this concept seems particularly germane to the present, when housing costs are steep and the mainstream art world is working hard to squeeze art back into the confines of marketable objects.

To the Editor: Whether courts in the past have been reluctant to order repeat elections is not particularly germane to the current situation (editorial, Nov. 9).

Even if they got a record of the second temperature, who knows who was given the information for analysis, or whether it seemed particularly germane to them?

The possibility of a smaller impact from the White House's policies became particularly germane on Wednesday, when Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Fed, testified before Congress.

I would have said that even if this were a historical novel, such questions would not be particularly germane.

It had long been held that both figures represent aspects of navigation, a subject particularly germane to Venice's seafaring tradition.

The day of Mr. Emanuel's visit, July 19, 1995, the booklet had a particularly germane thought.