Polly Samson's last book, Perfect Lives, was a collection of stories whose characters were tangentially connected to one another, its title freighted with heavy irony.
I first heard this news in the form of yelps of pain, since the new management had canceled an exhibition on the centenary of Times Square with which I was to be tangentially connected.
Ronald L. Kuby, who has been tangentially connected to Ms. Gristina's case, said he did not know whether she was seeking a book or movie deal but would not be surprised if she was trying.
Here is a band that uses its past to unite loyal fans – "a cult following", joked leader Jeff Tweedy on Sunday – but it also stepped beyond its catalog of songs to point followers in dozens of directions that are tangentially connected to different phases of the band's career.
But Eric Lewis, a lawyer for two Saudi charities that have been defendants in the continuing Sept. 11 litigation, said that lawyers for the plaintiffs would not be able to use the discovery process as a fishing expedition to depose any Saudi citizen they thought could be tangentially connected to the case.
By coincidence, I too turned out to be tangentially connected with this community.
Two other people are tangentially connected to the murder, by the Texas Rangers' estimation.
What really elevates James, however, from being a merely tedious Sloane marrying his female equivalent, is that he is already tangentially connected to the celebrity world.
Once he has finished testifying, prosecutors say they intend to call Goldman's stepmother, who will probably be questioned briefly about a shopping list that is only tangentially connected to the case.
Mr. McDonell said he believed that the investigation would lead to other suspects, but he indicated that they would probably be people who were only tangentially connected to the suspected plot.
In each of these stories, the animal in the title is only tangentially connected to the action, serving as a metaphor rather than a prompt for a pre-ordained conclusion.
