He has created what Hitchcock called a MacGuffin – something whose specific nature may well be unimportant, but which drives the action by causing the characters to behave in ways which reveal their true colours.
It is suggested that the relative interfacial energies and volume thermodynamic terms are always important contributions, while the dispersion interaction is relatively unimportant well below the solidus temperature, but may be critical close to and above the solidus temperature.
The number of fracturing operations carried out per well is relatively unimportant, unless the well is refractured during its life, in which case the fugitives emissions from well workover become significant.
Moreover, the record trade deficit and unusually high value of the dollar, which so many economists have brushed aside as unimportant, could well tie the hands of the nation's policy makers.
Maeve Brennan may also have managed that female trick of being both well regarded and completely unimportant, one that played out in America, often enough – but the deafness to the female voice in Ireland made these issues of reputation moot.
There is a Burmese understanding of history in which their state was stolen from them by the British, who then let in foreign predators – Hindu and Muslim Indians, Jews, Chinese, and other Europeans – as well as empowering hitherto unimportant minorities such as the Shan and other hill peoples.
While this may seem unimportant… well, let's be honest.
The arrangement of the tips is unimportant as well, so long as the branching patterns are maintained.
41 The second broad theme was the patient's perception of previously not having been taken seriously, or symptoms having been dismissed as unimportant, as well as a sense of humiliation or concern about appearing hypochondriacal 21 34 36–40 42 44–46 (table 2).
Well, "better" is subjective and unimportant, even - I looked the way I personally want to look, but no matter how much I practise at home I almost always end up looking like Robert Smith, with lines so wonky around my eyelid that Edward Scissorhands might as well have applied it.
