Sentence examples for something of a sideshow from inspiring English sources

That letter is something of a sideshow".

Dexter's killings are something of a sideshow, however.

The trip is, however, likely to focus on trade and counter-terrorism, with the family reunion something of a sideshow.

The Chilcot inquiry, though important, is also about the past and indeed looks something of a sideshow today.

"Tax havens are always going to take a bashing from the chancellor, but it's something of a sideshow.

But like Rod Blagojevich, the stunt governor of Illinois who had been arrested days earlier, Madoff was something of a sideshow to that dark month's main events.

The failure in Geneva, where the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is based, seemed something of a sideshow.In a global survey of business executives, conducted for this special report by the Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister company to The Economist, over half the respondents regarded the Doha round as minimally or not at all important, and only 10% thought it very important.

The elections are for half the seats in the upper house of the Diet (parliament), and are ordinarily something of a political sideshow: after all, it is the lower house that chooses the prime minister.

But Rowling hinted in the first instalment that Newt's magical pets will be something of a spectacular sideshow to the main event, the story of the world's pre-war battles against Grindelwald and his followers.

Their claim to be the first-ever virtual band (as if The Archies or Josie and the Pussycats never existed) was indulged all too eagerly by the media, who played along with Damon Albarn, Jamie Hewlett and Danger Mouse's stunt with depressing sycophancy, while the actual music was something of a redundant sideshow.

He became something of circus sideshow, racing against horses and greyhounds.