Sentence examples similar to a tangential discovery from inspiring English sources

In recent decades, with the movement of much material to offsite collections and the replacement of more and more print texts by online electronic ones, many scholars have lamented the declining opportunities for this kind of tangential discovery.

Gordin's cancer was only a tangential cause.

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

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

"And it could be for a tangential reason".

An animation of a tangential intersection reveals its inner violence.

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

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

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

A tangential section through the membrane shows clusters of crystals with flower-like arrangements (Fig. S3).

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