The phrase
"minor footnote" means a small or unimportant detail or comment that doesn't have a significant impact on the overall topic or discussion.
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It ended up as nothing more than one
very minor footnote lost in a sea of more pressing problems and events.
Publishing George Will, giving front - page prominence to
minor footnote issues, frequent quotation of Marc Morano, etc are the sorts of journalistic «he says, she says» that contribute to a public belief of confused science that is, well, simply not matched within the scientific community.
«In the future, everyone will have a dirty digital past, so Weiner and Spitzer will be
minor footnotes.
Critics dismissed it as a well - intentioned misfire or at best
a minor footnote in the annals of motion picture musicals.
Harwood's promotion to composer is really
a minor footnote, in terms of film music history; Cassavetes preferred the raw demo tracks Harwood composed, and the music itself doesn't break any new stylistic ground.
Jane Wilson's Green Twilight (oil on linen, 2000), for example, fashions a powerful sensation of nature's unbridled power while creating a composition in which the earth is but
a minor footnote in the painting's compositional structure.
Marcott et al will be just
another minor footnote, a small piece of the total puzzle within a few years.