That there was music attached to all this seemed almost beside the point.

The violence continues, and the accounting can seem beside the point.

The walls seemed just beside him, the ceiling right over his head.

All these fine points about the Revolution may seem beside the point to the public.

But the African musician next to him seemed beside the point.

The question of an art capital seemed suddenly beside the point.

Well, it lasted, as you see, and the talk has come to seem rather beside the point.

But to some people here, whether the article was accurate seems beside the point.

But that was almost a given, and it seemed beside the point.

I glanced at my questions, but now they seemed beside the point.