Sentence examples for incidental rather than from inspiring English sources

Swing now is incidental rather than by design.

Within the play, references to the specific disabilities of the performers are incidental rather than integral.

The contributions of John Maynard (Lord) Keynes to capital theory are incidental rather than fundamental.

Thus, in the late 1990s, the liquidity trap in Japan has been externally imposed as an incidental, rather than deliberate, outcome of American policies.Taking this long-term exchange-rate expectation as given, consider Japan's current monetary-policy dilemmas.

She still loves the classic British fiction she read as a child, and her ambition has been to write stories where matters of race are incidental rather than either the main theme, or else ignored altogether.

The best comic writing is incidental rather than deliberate, according to Alexander McCall Smith, whose tale of a rotund American's trip of a lifetime to Ireland, Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party, has just won the UK's top award for humorous fiction.

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.

A number of subjects tended to favour an optimal type of incidental collaboration rather than structured collaboration.

Because the proportion of oscillating genes is very large - one quarter to one half of all genes in the organism - we suggest that many of them may be oscillating for incidental reasons, rather than because the oscillation is necessarily adaptive.

Nevertheless, Pragma-dialectics prefers to keep the appearance condition outside the definition of 'fallacy', treating the seeming goodness of fallacies as a sometime co-incidental property, rather than an essential one.

In Metaphysical Disputation 39, he is primarily concerned with the division of accidents into nine highest genera, and the discussion of categories is incidental and indirect, rather than deliberate and explicit.