(1) They are frankly tangential to the drama, and could have been cut from the story altogether without any great loss.(2) In this case we deal with the situation of a local tangential force applied to the surface of a large body.(3) You've got to have a game in your head, you have to have a strategy and you have to know what the points are on the horizon because you get quickly buffeted to run off in tangential ways.(4) He continues to work as an environmental biologist - less tangential to his career as a writer than it might appear.(5) Title aside, this is less a book with a single evolving argument than a series of tangential essays.(6) Formally then, utility is maximized at the point where the budget line is tangential to an indifference curve.(7) This story is tangential to the subject I intended to approach, which is the true subject of my teenage crush.(8) In Chinese, each different tangential reference to the topic presents the idea from a different indirect perspective; however, the topic is never presented directly in the text or in the conclusion.(9) Barreto did a fair job of explaining the process of making this movie, but he often got sidetracked onto more tangential anecdotes.(10) Despite a number of tangential references to the shady dealings of American corporations in the Balkans and their connections to organized crime, I have not yet seen a serious and comprehensive analysis of this interesting subject.(11) Though tangential to the main thesis, this book also serves as an excellent briefing for the general reader on the often uninspiring and sometimes off-putting technical language of the financial world.(12) Thin-sections were made in the transverse, radial, and tangential planes.(13) It is hard to believe that a theologian so bent on providing justification for preemptive armed conflict would find a theological account of violence tangential to the question of war.(14) Second, we have examined perturbations in a normal rather than a tangential direction along the limit cycle.(15) Still, the music, though admittedly provocative, almost always plays the role of sonic backdrop to her ridiculous tangential meditations, which ultimately sink the album.(16) When we overlay Figure 4.2 onto Figure 4.1, we will see that the budget constraint will be tangential to some I-curves and cut across other I-curves.
