Sentences with phrase «by tangential»

I'm giggling at myself because I was going to start by saying you look like you are wasting away... then I thought of the song «Wasted away again in Margaritaville...» and thought, that is NOT where I want to go with this comment — but I figured you would be amused by my tangential thoughts and would laugh.

It makes sure we don't lose focus or get side - tracked by tangential opportunities, or deviate when faced with choppy waters.

Things get complicated quickly, our only reprieve from the gloomy motel rooms provided by the tangential presence of Jon Gries, which doesn't feel all that necessary.

Not exact matches

And use tangential issues as opportunities for misdirection: By making a big deal about issues you don't really care about, you can concede them later at no real cost.

The National recently featured a 17 - minute report by Lang on private security firms in Afghanistan using NATO money to bribe insurgents, a topic with only the most tangential link to her beat.

By a tiny «tangential» increase, the «radial» was turned back on itself and so to speak took an infinite leap forward.»

If the same people who claim these commitments are also swayed by presidential candidates who offer only the most tangential, glancing, elliptical, and facile engagements with the texts they themselves claim to hold dear, then the emperor and his public square are, if not naked, then leaving little to the imagination.

Others, however, make a more conscious effort to let piety enter the teaching - learning process by way of «rabbit - chasing» — discussion of topics tangential to the main subject, and personal commentary.

Any arbitrarily selected abstractive set can cover and not be covered by some other abstractive set a, if the inclusion of the member regions of the covered set a is allowed to be tangential.

We conclude the formal discussion by noticing that either all geometrical elements are points, which follows from the theorem of symmetrical coverage (22), or no geometrical element is a point, which follows from allowing tangential inclusion to satisfy the definition of coverage, a liberalization which enables any abstractive set to asymmetrically cover an a set.

While Schulz's suit is over the use of public money to pay settlements, this suit is also being funded by public dollars: Due to an earlier tangential involvement in the case, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said his office couldn't defend Silver.

Finally there is Ricci curvature, which we measure by averaging the curvature of all two - dimensional surfaces tangential to each other along a common direction.

Then there is Gauss curvature, which gives you the curvature of a two - dimensional surface by multiplying the largest and smallest curvature of the family of all curves tangential to the surface at a given point.

The transverse (or tangential) velocity, T, is given by T = V sin λ = 4.74 μ / p where p is the star's parallax in arc seconds.

By carefully combining position measurements from digital archives with newer positions measured from images taken during the course of the Pan-STARRS1 survey, they were able to derive the tangential component of the star's velocity (across our line of sight).

The Audience Award: U.S. Documentary, Presented by Acura was presented to: The Sentence (Director: Rudy Valdez, Producers: Sam Bisbee, Jackie Kelman Bisbee)-- Cindy Shank, mother of three, is serving a 15 - year sentence in federal prison for her tangential involvement with a Michigan drug ring years earlier.

The Amazing Spider - Man films featured a High School Parker but he was played by an actor pushing, and looking, 30 years old and his being in high school was tangential to the overall film at best.

Suicide Squad is the third official film in the DC Extended Universe, a bit tangential to what's come before, save for a couple of Superman / Aquaman references, as well as the appearance of Bruce Wayne / Batman (Affleck, Gone Girl) and a cameo by The Flash to remind us there's more going on in the world than just what's surrounding this new cast of super-powered characters.

Reading McMurtry's Lonesome Dove trilogy last summer, I was struck by the loneliness of the lives of his cowboys, their loyalty to one another, and the tangential nature of their romantic relationships with women.

«Blue Is the Warmest Color» Yes, the sex scenes are explicit, but they are both necessary to the love story and tangential to the film's main ambition, which is to illuminate the life of its young protagonist, played by Adèle Exarchopoulos, in full.

becomes increasingly distracted by its fundamentally tangential nature.

With A SEPARATION, Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi has taken the most ordinary of stories, played out by the most ordinary of people, and created an extraordinary work about the tangential relationship between justice and the law, honesty and truth.

The connection to the television series is so tangential that those drawn in by the recognizable title, to say nothing of the show's die - hard loyalists, will feel cheated; the occasional name - check of characters and the occasional nose twitch are hardly satisfying.

Enthusiasts will dismiss such skepticism by touting the rich multi-media resources, the tangential link chasing, the engaging visuals, and so on.

Perhaps with fuel prices currently low, respondents saw little need for tangential devices that kick up mpg by a tenth of a mile per gallon or so, such as active grille shutters or solar - panel glass roofs.

Highly tangential to the original topic, may I say I am STAGGERED by the number of people who read a gazillion books per year?

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Survey art shows held together by a vague concept are generally specious, the concern being that a broad subject was chosen to shoehorn an unruly and tangential mess of work together.

«I am horrified by my hands and the actions they take» he states, «so I make my work from the actions tangential to them: accidents and omissions.

The series of sculptures that are central to Chris Evans's exhibition bear cowlicks but, tangential to the coiffeurial connotation, are cast from genuine licks made by cows in buckets of molasses and cereal.

Not that I'm entirely convinced by everything here, nor understand what some of the exhibits have to do with Malevich except in the most tangential way.

Momin adds, «By physically moving through and mapping the very landscape that has been so fantasized, dreamed about, and capitalized upon in a breadth of positive and negative ways, the artists had the opportunity to address their work to the idea in a variety of ways — opaque or direct, tangential or political, macro and micro.»

Private View provides a new type of program platform that encourages social engagement and experimentation within contemporary art and tangential practices by partnering with an international community of artists, galleries, institutions and residencies.

It aims to provide a new type of program platform that encourages social engagement and experimentation within contemporary art and tangential practices by partnering with an international community of artists, galleries, institutions and residencies.

Why, for instance, are Matt Mullican and Laurie Anderson, both of whom deserve prominence in any exhibition dealing with mass - media culture, represented by works of arguably tangential significance?

While I agree that ∆ T = λ ∆ Q is a simplistic approximation, isn't it just that — an approximation, hopefully tangential to some more complex curve (we haven't encountered TSI changes of more than a few W / m ^ 2 so just aren't in a position to estimate what the true ∆ T curve might be if ∆ Q changed by, say, 10 % or more).

It's a shame that real scientists in tangential fields, like Jen and Pekka, have been taken by this balderdash.

Tangential, but I suspect that even if Arctic ice declines later in the century, the decision of running ships through the Arctic will be made by marine insurers, not shippers.

It is easy to imagine places at Polar surfaces that are in darkness while the sky above them is lit, not for just a vertical distance towards the sun as can happen in the Tropics, but by a much larger distance involving the light in the approaching as well as the departing tangential atmospheric path.

According to the judge «virtually all the evidence» pointed in favour of C's contention of Kington: although the fact that his mother (with whom the deceased had, in the last years of his life, at best a tangential relationship) would face difficulties in travelling the 50 miles from Worcester to Kington was «a weighty factor», it was outweighed by the fact that the deceased had made his home for most of the last eight years of his life in Kington and that was also where his brother, with whom he was close, and his fiancée lived, as well as where his father wished him to be buried.

On the other hand, if you don't understand the material, and you're getting frustrated by people hijacking class time with tangential issues, get the class back on track.

As for the remark about the bed, if it came from a tangential remark by Ms. F, it was treated equally tangentially, since as discussed below, the arbitrator found the mattress was not reasonable or necessary, whatever its size.

So what I'm going to do in this blog post, as a public service and by virtue of some tangential connection to our blog's focus, dealing with arbitration agreement (to satisfy Sergeant - at - Blog Lawless), I want to clarify some things about the Stormy Daniels contract litigation and engage in a wee bit of informed speculation based on tantalizing clues in the contract.

But digital items are already having a real impact on the economy, and maybe it's time we start looking at nurturing the tangential skills developed by entrepreneurial video game players.

The investment by Amazon will allow the company to share in the future growth of the daily deals market without having to rush into a market that is arguably only tangential to its core e-commerce business.

Most of the public perception tangential to the industry of cryptocurrency is based around the immense wealth generated by cryptocurrency investors and the uses for crypto that subvert traditional government regulations and law, both of which hold an interest to large swathes of the population.

The reasoning was that the new case fell within the doctrine of «res judicata» and was given by a court of competent jurisdiction, and the decision was not tangential but the very question that was now argued again before the court.