Although nominally important, he was actually a peripheral figure by 1941.

To date, only peripheral figures have been tried or convicted for the attacks.

The strongest cases the federal government has made are against peripheral figures.

I mean this is not a case where she was a peripheral figure.

Until then, she had been a peripheral figure in art whose work was more admired than acclaimed.

Events seem to have rendered her hero, if not irrelevant, than at least a peripheral figure.

He has pretty much stayed forgotten, and even within 19th-century American art he is a peripheral figure.

He has gone from a peripheral figure to Chelsea's main man.

He then became a peripheral figure at the club, until his retirement in 1911.

The good reputations of even peripheral figures were suddenly at stake.