(Whether or not the bibelot sold and, if so, fetched its asking price of fifty million pounds — some have doubted Hirst's word on it — is an interesting but tangential question).
While immediately created much online amusement (my favorite: "It's pronounced 'Heb' Bush"), it does raise an interesting but tangential question -- and not just for Bush -- in the upcoming presidential primary process: Do Republican ballots in all states require full legal names for candidates?
Running for New York State attorney general in the 1994 Democratic primary, he was brash, energetic and blatantly opportunistic, with a disturbing inclination to play to the tabloids on the tangential question of the death penalty.
At first I did not connect this seemingly tangential question to my article, but now I find myself weaving my understanding into the very concept of free choice inherent in a democracy.
A couple of tangential questions - firstly Leveson.
In the future, DIY Co. aims to make its bot interface more sophisticated, using artificial intelligence, so that kids who have a lot of seemingly tangential questions can interrupt a course and speak with the JAM bots as they would an understanding parent or teacher.
We get misunderstanding, and that's actually the cause of a lot of those horrible tangential questions you get.
"Scientists spend a lot of time thinking about tangential questions, that are academically interesting but not so important for getting a drug approved," says Schafer. "To accumulate the appropriate data to put into a regulatory submission, you just need to focus on the required information," he says.
But there are tangential questions well worth pondering: If movie culture reflects who we are, then who the hell are we?
EU negotiators spent hours answering tangential questions, and listening to declarations about the greatness of the Persian people—"going back to Cyrus the Great", he sighs leading up to its right to civilian nuclear technology.
