My life at that time was full of passing relationships: people I knew for days, or even hours, and who posed for Polaroid-like snapshots in my memory which outlast many of the long-exposure images I've collected since.
As ever, Trump's comment bore only a passing relationship to the truth.
Were there any companies with whom you forged more than a passing relationship – and what did they do?
Grendel here bears a passing relationship to the monster in the "Alien" movies: he has the same elongated snout, the same dripping, needlelike teeth.
He was the son of a young black woman, Cedella Marley Booker, who had a passing relationship with the much older Norval Marley, a British Army man of mixed race who was considered a white Jamaican.
To his paintings of people, still lifes, household interiors and landscapes, he brought not only the intimism of French artists like Bonnard and Vuillard, but also flat painterly areas of color and gesture that have more than a passing relationship to the nonrealist work of his peers.
To his reditions of people, still lifes, household interiors and landscapes, the realist painter Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) brought not only the intimism of French artists like Bonnard and Vuillard but also flat painterly areas of color and gesture that have more than a passing relationship to the art of his abstractionist friends.
The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, which bears only a passing relationship to the agreements arising from the Conference of Berlin, will, according to the US agency promoting it, "lift 50 million people out of poverty over the next 10 years through inclusive and sustained agricultural growth".
Lilly had more than a passing relationship with American intelligence agencies (Burnett turned up a folder labeled "Indoctrination, Forced" in the Lilly archive and through a Freedom of Information query found that J. Edgar Hoover personally attended to Lilly's F.B.I. file).
(Eugenics had only a passing relationship with actual genetics).
