A bit of incidental knowledge for whoever comes along next.
Every camera movement, nearly every bit of incidental business — a plastic bag blowing along a dark, empty street like a tumbleweed; a pigeon fluttering into the frame — was blocked out, controlled, adjusted, repeated.
Professor Lynch again: "If you take the view that the legislation establishing the plebiscite is not in and of itself a law with respect to marriage, but a process whereby the people are merely asked their opinion on a question about marriage, then it may be that the plebiscite itself already relies quite a bit on incidental power rather than the main grant.
Sure, it musters bits of incidental theater: in keeping with its French background it serves many appetizers and entrees with a final, fancy application of broth or sauce at the table.
It may have been at the end of that meal, when Baehrel took me on a tour of the property, sticking to the perimeter of the lot, making a great fuss over bits of incidental vegetation that would seem hardly ample, even in high summer, to provide for, say, dozens of guests a week.
Indeed, especially in a freewheeling mode like Abstract Expressionism, a bit of awkwardness, incidental to the branded appearance, may impress a smitten chump as a marker of sincerity — even as something new and endearing about a beloved master.
Although her best pictures evoke nineteenth-century masters like Timothy O'Sullivan and Albert Bierstadt, mothers and babies are often reduced to tiny, incidental bits of data in magnificent vistas.
Written by Mr. Jia and two collaborators, Sun Jianmin and Guan Na, "Still Life" unfolds as a series of minor events and incidental bits and pieces with little obvious connective tissue.
Alex Nicol, as a worn and frightened interne, and John Alexander as a stern detective chief, round out a cast which is sprinkled with good performers doing incidental bits.But for all its performance and direction by George Sherman in a tensile thriller style, "The Sleeping City" is just a mystery-chase film with a hospital as its locale.
He will fight to investigate his dumb dust motes, his stray emails, his incidental bits of language that washed over the transom, for as long as the media is willing to pretend there is anything real at stake.
