Sentences with phrase «most tangential»

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.

«Here at the end of session I think lawmakers should be focused on ending corruption and this connects in the most tangential way.»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Two realms of thought meet in a tangential manner, which at first sight may seem eccentric, and each language illuminates the other, although in «the most selective and subtle way.»

There's nothing but tangential notes of story within the missions themselves, and most are presented directly as a timed challenge of your combat skills.

Since most of the film is set up to explore tangential story elements, I think the plot summary is practically superfluous.

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 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.

If President Trump's proposal becomes reality, the most likely outcome is that Wyoming — which, as stated above, does not currently have a voucher program — will not establish one, since doing so would be tangential to the challenges facing its students.

They are mainly concerned about how they can keep their credit or how this is going to affect their day - to - day expenses, not a legal principle, and in most cases have neither the means, the patience, the principle, or the money to pursue an issue against a powerful corporation that is probably basically tangential to the real concerns of their life.

I got most of the secrets and power - ups on my first play through (a benefit of getting lost and wandering through puzzles only tangential to the main storyline), and I still spent at most two hours in game.

Most of these characters have tangential links to the main plot but all have their part to play, and Cloud and Sephiroth take centre stage in one of the first games best sidequests.

There's nothing but tangential notes of story within the missions themselves, and most are presented directly as a timed challenge of your combat skills.

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.

Most are either tangential to the issue of anthropogenic climate change, or insufficient to convince the vast majority of their colleagues to change their minds.

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.

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.

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.

For starters, he has at least tangential ties to two of the most influential antagonists of the U.S. government: Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.