Sentence examples for tangential he from inspiring English sources

But, even as he prepared for what could be his last chance to attain his city's highest office after more than 20 years in politics, it also showed just how tangential he had become and, to the end, dependent on the actions of others.

"The interest in security was tangential," he added.

"My fame is tangential," he said.

Marlon is tangential, and he knows it.

"I think this is a tangential direction," he says.

Sometimes — because it's highly improvised — I can feel Fred pulling in a direction that I find really obnoxious, and he's a very tangential performer, and he's brilliant, but he will take the center of a scene and just decide no, we're going left, and then we're going left, and then right, and I'm just trying to follow him.

Since comedy requires a tangential thought process, he was able to significantly expand his communication skills.

"When you get out there your thought process can be so tangential, arbitrary and random," he says.

On Thursday, Mr. Rumsfeld said the dynamics of daily briefings could result in a misplaced focus on issues he considered tangential.

Mr. Barna's camera captures the recycled beams (what Nova refers to as "noble old wood"); rustic, hand-carved furnishings that he calls "tangential art"; and womblike "couchettes," which are closet-sized rooms with built-in beds.

Well before he was asked to offer a prayer at Monday's ceremony marking the U.S. Embassy's move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, earning the enmity of Mitt Romney, Pastor Robert Jeffress offered tangential insight into why he and many evangelicals think the move was so important.