Like many New Yorkers, I had a tangential relationship with the towers.
Yet some of the measures under consideration have, at best, a tangential relationship to the electricity shortage in California.
They have the moves and the range, but most favour a straightforward, indicative performance style that has only a tangential relationship to stage acting.
Yet, just looking at my Facebook feed, the origins of the fear bear only a tangential relationship to the actual Trump campaign.
"They do have a tangential relationship, but this scenario -- the work we publish in the Neighborhood and now the book -- suggests that the medium isn't the message.
The first and most crucial is that they are not clear how, or where, they would fit into it: until the parameters of the EEAS are established, everyone who has even a tangential relationship to foreign affairs feels insecure.
Our obsession with the spectacle of politics may blind us to the truth that politics of the Presidential kind sometimes has, or can be made to have, a tangential relationship to our lives.
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.
Arguably, you could look back at John Cage's music, his writings and strange hieroglyphic musical notations, or at Cunningham's dances and his collaborations with artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, and see that they have at least a tangential relationship to what came to be called conceptualism.
This compulsion to weigh in on a news event, even one with only a tangential relationship to one's own life, is endemic among people who use social media, according to Jonathan Taplin, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California who has studied sentiment on Twitter.
It was particularly important to Mr. Karzai that it come under his government's jurisdiction, that the forces be uniformed and that their chain of command run through the Interior Ministry because several other local forces created during nearly nine years of war here had only a tangential relationship to the Afghan authorities — or undermined them.
