Sentence examples for incidental colour from inspiring English sources

The Arab corpses that lay strewn in the streets and along the coastline were no more than incidental colour to the Parisian spectator watching the slaughter through opera glasses from the deck of his cruise ship.

Copeland's has the great advantage (if you are prepared to forgive some repetition) that he has gathered first-person accounts from many of the protagonists, which provide a wealth of incidental colour.

Something as genetically incidental as eye colour became an analogue for the genetic superficiality of skin colour, and it was shown that when one group was favoured over the other, both groups quickly assumed their designated roles as oppressed and oppressor.

Speak to some black standups and they'll say their skin colour is incidental.

He built on the success of Magic Johnson to became the first black athlete warmly welcomed by the white advertising world; his colour was incidental to his appeal.

Intriguingly, though, issues of race and colour are ostensibly incidental to Creed.

"It's nice to be on a show where your skin colour or religion is incidental".

The effect has also been found when the colour stimulus was entirely incidental to the task.

Her color is incidental".

Keep an eye on these tiny incidentals, and be sure to watch Upstream Colour on the big screen – it pays off when it comes to spotting the fine detail.

At others, such as Adrian Lester's modern-dress performance at the National Theatre in 2012, the colour of the hero's skin can seem almost incidental; the play's tragedy primarily one of jealousy.