Sentence examples similar to a tangential answer from inspiring English sources

Again, she was stressing her record on a tangential point and either confusing the facts or getting them simply wrong in answer to a focused question from an experienced TV journalist.

The answer, logically, is nowhere – or at least not until every last person and organisation with at least a tangential relationship with, or the most tendentious gripe about, the Tevez affair has had their day in court.

"This is not a tangential issue," Mr. Heidinger said.

Gordin's cancer was only a tangential cause.

And, health care was — at best — a tangential topic.

"And it could be for a tangential reason".

An animation of a tangential intersection reveals its inner violence.

A new afterword to The Black Swan is a tangential reflection on those events.

"I'm in a position where I can explore things in a tangential way.

Some of his entries deal only in a tangential fashion with the subject of lost books.

Transactional systems express a tangential or just plain awkward social orientation.