To make something bigger or smaller than it is, besides prompting a possible laugh, evokes mostly vulnerability.
So unimportant is the pastry base in this particular tart that, unusually in Gallic cuisine, one has a certain freedom to drape whatever sort one likes on top of the apples – because really, it's besides the point.
Who else could it be besides You? OK, it is you!
Anyway, it's besides the point, because making a Green Lantern movie at that point was just a huge tactical mistake.
The downside of it is, besides the money we spend, is that it instills a belief in people's minds that we could really defend ourselves against a large-scale attack; and that, I say, is a fantasy.
This significant relationship of religiosity is of interest as it is, besides gender attitudes, an important cultural factor influencing adolescents' sexual health and wellbeing.
Overly orchestrated, with its chanterelle mushroom garnish and white truffle essence, it was spicy besides, an unpleasant surprise.
It didn't have that much history, and it was ugly besides.
"If it was anything besides my two brothers' names, I wouldn't have got them there," he said.
The cabin was still cold, and it was silent besides a few flies flying around.
