Sentences with phrase «even tangential»

We are in this weird moment where any even tangential link to Russia or a Russian person is heralded as a sign of questionable collusion.

The lack of physical evidence of Christine's life may begin as a source of frustration for Kate on a purely professional level, but as she learns more, interviewing friends and coworkers, getting even a tangential sense of what might have driven Christine to her decision (with many of those moments eventually acted out in wonderfully campy excerpts from this nonexistent film), she learns that the exploitation of media and its desire to show the worst of society, offering the most broken aspects of the world to the altar of ratings (this of course being the aspect of the story that helped birth Network) hasn't changed much from the 70's to the modern day.

Anyone with even tangential interest in the Oscars can note the ongoing trend of Best Picture winners debuting early in the season, meaning anything that would release post-Gothams is already at a significant disadvantage.

And while in retrospect he knows that lifting weights and paying rent are unconnected in even a tangential way, the determination and sense of purpose that grew out of that event would continue to serve him to this day.

I find it quite surprising not to have found in the literature even a tangential analysis of this metaphysical problem with Hartshorne's philosophy of religion, especially because it relates to the very possibility or impossibility of divine relativity.

Not exact matches

He's trying to describe why buying MapMyFitness was never going to be enough; the real opportunities would come only if he controlled every part of the digital health experience, even if nutrition, say, has only tangential relevance to the sportswear business.

Were we to restrict ourselves to the sort of two - dimensional circular regions found diagrammed in Process and Reality, we would not be able to construct a counterinstance to the symmetry of coverage even if we allowed inclusion to be tangential.

• Start your article with a personal anecdote, even if it's narcissistic or tangential to the rest of the piece.

Even to the extent that chronically inflamed gums might be a tangential cause of heart disease — and if not a cause, at the very least an accompanying symptom of systemic inflammation.

As I mentioned in the intro, Full Throttle is a bit more coherent than the first film, and unlike its predecessor, they actually construct each scene as part of the overall plot, even if it is sometimes tangential.

Renters insurance with a dog is crucially important because people will sue over nearly anything, even if the defendant has merely a tangential connection to the injury suffered.

Clearly, the team do not manage to deliver an artwork of comparable magnitude to Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, which is their chief inspiration, but to even have chosen this as an ambition in a commercial game project in 2001 — when rivals are choosing The Godfather and Aliens as their template because these are, quite frankly, supremely easy influences to synthesise into a string of violent episodes, Silent Hill 2's decision to construct a game in which violence can (depending on the player's proclivities) be a tangential part of the experience is significant.

Battlegrounds has found itself in the news quite a bit lately, and we're not even talking about the tangential stories such as PewDiePie going full racist while streaming the game or Epic Games trying to chomp their flavor with an extremely similar Battle Royale mode in Fortnite.

Even so, some of the titles, such as Bearden's Strange Land and Wilson's Black Still Life, belie the fact that most, if not all, abstraction originates in and maintains ties to form and figure, however tangential.

Even with just that tangential exposure, there's been a profound feeling of loss in doing those pieces.

@Howard What, to be able to persist in so called «climate skepticism,» did you scour my blog (not even the piece linked to) to see if you could pull out some mistake, irrelevant to the actual issue, used to suggest a tangential point?

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 may be of only tangential relevance to law, but historians and perhaps even property lawyers will find it interesting.

Anyone can be distracted and even though Slaw readers have been reading concept heavy, footnoted works for most of their adult lives, it is easy to go off to a tangential link and never come back.

Renters insurance with a dog is crucially important because people will sue over nearly anything, even if the defendant has merely a tangential connection to the injury suffered.

«We've all had arguments that are so tangential that we can't even remember what we were fighting about,» Hummel said.