The beach and the ocean and the friends were sort of transitory and kind of incidental to the experience".
Parmigianino's talent overflows the requirements of his devotional and mythic subject matter, which becomes incidental to our experience of his pictures.
It was mentioned often that the game of cricket is largely incidental to the experience of cricket: the muggy heat; the wide, unfocused minutes; the smacked-cheek sound a bat makes when it slaps against a ball; the lazy open greenness of the field.
There's a line in Stendhal's biography of Rossini about his response to an opera being determined in large measure by how comfortable his seat is, and, while I think I'm experienced at filtering the incidental out of the experience, it's good to double-check.
Instead of passing off such experiences as incidental, what if synchronicity is telling us something crucial about reality, linking the inner and outer worlds because in the long run, they are completely unified?
The narrative seemed almost incidental to the visual experience, and some of the scenes were wholly ridiculous (the friendly interaction between a British and German soldier in No Man's Land), but I am so glad I went to see it, and so glad it's been such a success.
While I know the text is supposed to be the most important thing, and I'm well aware that the biographical details of a writer's life should be incidental to the reading experience, the acknowledgement pages can have a subtle effect on the way I read a book.
The particulars of that plot are both vague and complex, not to mention incidental to the overall experience of the film.
In a large multi-center lung screening trial, participants receiving a false positive or significant incidental finding screen result experienced no significant difference in health related quality of life or state anxiety at 1 or at 6 months after screening relative to those receiving a negative result.
Bell famously dismissed representational content as incidental anecdote, irrelevant to visual experience.
