tangential

But the words were only tangential to what he felt.

With the son gone, men have become tangential to the household.

But this movie's interest in sexual politics is only tangential.

My contact with them came often in a tangential or strange way.

There are two reasons for giving them only the most tangential treatment here.

"The prosecutor can develop tangential evidence but in the end he needs her."

They weren't our own people, and the control over them was tangential at best.

Culture is anything but tangential in a country seeking to create an identity.

Turned out the guy had a tangential connection to the Brotherhood.

On the tangential face the wood is often highly figured.

Instead we get this late, somewhat tangential slice of his career.

His capacity for new and tangential thinking might be dwindling, too.

Before tracks can be visible, a tangential light source is needed.

The notion of work or manufacturing seems tangential to the paintings.

Parsons was a tangential figure in a spectacular performance on 9 May.

The right hand diagram shows a how a tangential turnout is made.

The tangential component of the electric field along the wire.

The site should include a memorial that is central, not tangential, to the rebuilding.

Her mind was running tangential to this twisting conversation, somehow.

This differs from tangential thinking, in that the person does eventually return to the original point.

In contract to a tangential network, here all lines form the shape of a star.

He is put together in a series of stories from different, tangential points of view.

Still, the state has been losing jobs, and there are tangential costs to doing business in Vermont.

That it also would bring personal pleasure was merely a tangential benefit.

"There's a certain freedom as a writer to be tangential.