| 单词 | irrelevancy |
| 例句 | Regardless of what the best picture ever is, academy voters surely must have some vague awareness that they and their industry are headed straight off a cliff of irrelevancy. Review | Oscars 2017: From Blah-Blah Land to wait — what just happened? 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z The "verdict" is, in a sense, a moral irrelevancy, as deeper issues of shame and obligation are explored. Series: Watch this TV highlights 14/08/2012 2012-08-14T13:57:25Z And with the odd exception, such as Moonlight, an air of cultural irrelevancy has lingered about recent winners. Parasite's best picture triumph could begin a new era for the Oscars 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z And we’d do well to remember that even the most prestigious literary awards are sometimes given to self-absorbed, desiccated books that quickly evaporate into irrelevancy. Perspective | Goodreads Choice Awards: An annual reminder that critics and readers don’t often agree 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z And NBC begins showing clear signs of a comeback, improving ratings after nearly sliding into irrelevancy over the previous decade. Key dates in history of National Broadcasting Co. 2013-02-13T22:16:05Z Supernatural immortality becomes these fading stars’ best efforts at staving off irrelevancy. ‘American Horror Story’ Season 5, Episode 7: Gods and Monsters 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z The evening newscasts remain vital to each network's image, and after years of fighting off irrelevancy, are now seeing a ratings renaissance. In Internet age, ratings show TV news remains relevant 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Unfortunately for Laws, it is also an irrelevancy. The David Laws story is nothing to do with gayness. It's about money 2010-05-29T23:06:00Z The trivia piles up; it’s a lawn sale of irrelevancies. ‘Mitch, Please!’ Tours Kentucky and Roasts a Senator 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z The concerto's temper is that of inconsolable melancholy, a melancholy made all the more poignant given that Elgar would live for an additional 15 years in sad irrelevancy. Yo-Yo Ma is marvelous during a strange night at Hollywood Bowl 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z But Berman is building a hero: her story doesn't need a strong woman, let alone a status for her protagonist that is diminished, bordering on irrelevancy. A Hugh Hefner Documentary: Airbrushed 2010-07-31T06:45:00Z It is an anxious gasp about male irrelevancy and female ascendancy. Female success and male decline: what A Star Is Born tells us about fame, fear and feminism 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z It reveals how the movement’s ideology distracts from issues that matter — inequality, poverty, racism, environmental degradation, corruption — and encourages its followers to waste their energies on irrelevancies. How conservatives exposed ridiculous truth about their ideology as they flipped out about this shoe 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Contemporary academics mired largely within their own cults of irrelevancy are resentful and tormented by her popularity. Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z When the pioneering researcher Michael E. Lamb became interested in the role of fathers, in the mid-1970s, “there wasn’t much evidence for the irrelevancy of fathers” — it was just assumed, Mr. Raeburn writes. ‘Do Fathers Matter?’ Shows Why They Do 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z He described his life as a sprint to outrun the wolves of irrelevancy. Here’s Why Norm Macdonald Was Comedy Royalty. It’s Not ‘S.N.L.’ 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z "A vote against 'The Dark Knight' is a vote for your own irrelevancy," he wrote. "Scott Pilgrim": The end of the nerd as we know him 2010-08-12T15:01:00Z But that makes Spock an irrelevancy — the professor type from old sci-fi movies who tried reasoning with the evil or barbarous life forms before they swatted him into unconsciousness. Star Trek Into Darkness: The Young and the Reckless 2013-05-13T19:01:26Z Walter Blunt, a talkshow host and former Falkland Islands war hero, is facing slipping ratings and increasing irrelevancy. Blunt Talk: Patrick Stewart's new show is duller than it should be 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z But for Joel and Ethan Coen – whose film of the same name is out on Friday in the UK – Wayne is simply "an irrelevancy". New True Grit owes nothing to John Wayne, say directors 2011-02-10T19:39:35Z Abandoned — from its perspective, at least — by teams such as Washington and Oregon, who bolted for the Big Ten, Washington State football is fighting for its survival as irrelevancy looms. Pac-12 has become nation’s most interesting conference on its way out 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z It raised the question of how many lives would be saved across the country if DeSantis’ presidential campaign completes its glide path to irrelevancy, sapping his quest for the most politically expedient right-wing policy prescriptions. Column: Does Ron DeSantis even believe his dangerous B.S. about COVID vaccines? 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z After his victory, McKoon sought to turn the page, promising the state GOP that lurched to the party’s fringes and battled irrelevancy under Shafer’s watch will embrace a broader, forward-looking philsophy. Georgia GOP elects election deniers to key posts 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z Once on the verge of irrelevancy compared to football and basketball, baseball might have just saved itself. Plaschke: Falling in love with the pitch clock is easy. Embrace baseball's new reality 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z As the defending Super Bowl champion Rams sank deeper and deeper into irrelevancy during their lost season, one thing remained constant. Examining Rams' super collapse after season-closing overtime loss to Seattle 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z It’s been three weeks since Washington’s last win and its midseason skid has torpedoed a season that began with a little promise and is spiraling to irrelevancy. UW men’s basketball seeks ‘best version of us’ vs. Arizona State to turn season around 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z Interview after interview, he is talking himself into total irrelevancy. Column: Kevin de León is on an apology tour. When will he realize it's a farewell tour? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z They no longer stop and start it with their petty irrelevancies and VAR is less inclined to interfere. Garth Crooks' Team of the Week 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z One reason the GOP has fallen into irrelevancy in Sacramento is its stubborn opposition to social issues such as abortion. California has long been a voice for abortion rights. But there's a political ring to it 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Unwilling to be promoted into desk-job irrelevancy, he is a captain by rank and a rebel by nature. Review: Tom Cruise flies high — again — in the exhilarating 'Top Gun: Maverick' 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z “We are the United Methodist Church not interested in continuing sexism, racism, homophobia, irrelevancy and decline,” he said. United Methodist bishops acknowledge breakup is imminent 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z We saw White Christians in the South sit serenely in their pews listening to what the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. called “pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities” as blatant injustices were inflicted upon Black people. Opinion | Silence in the face of injustice is a sin, too 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Instead, the copycat convoy wound up detouring into irrelevancy. Opinion | The trucker convoy detours into conspiracy — and irrelevancy 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Other leagues compromise, grow and prosper while baseball bickers and battles and points its fingers at each other on a path toward national irrelevancy. Plaschke: MLB lockout will impact baseball fans as much as anyone 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z "I want to be part of an extinction event for the political woke left to put them into complete and total irrelevancy for the next 20 or 30 years," he said. CPAC opens and immediately dissolves into GOP dissent over Ukraine 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Just about one year ago, a consumer chain lumbering its way toward business irrelevancy suddenly became the lodestar of a stock market craze. Column: Remember the GameStop stock craze? Looks like it's over 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z His strategy has certainly changed as labor-backed Democrats have grown into one-party rule and pro-business Republicans have fallen into virtual irrelevancy. After decades in California politics, Allan Zaremberg has some parting advice for the GOP 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z Detroit drafted Cunningham, a savvy scorer and shot creator, No. 1 overall earlier this year to hopefully lift itself out of years of irrelevancy. N.B.A. East Preview: The Bucks Aren’t Finished Yet 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z It’s just one of those marring historical irregularities from the white linen and wood era that drive you crazy with their irrelevancy and injustice. Perspective | Serena Williams doesn’t need another Grand Slam. She has nothing left to prove. 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z He led the conference into irrelevancy years ago! Letters: Saying goodbye to Hammerin' Hank Aaron 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z The Trojan image is one bordering on irrelevancy. Plaschke: Soul-crushing defeats have become the norm for once-mighty Trojans program 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z Unable to capitalize on the PC boom that began in the mid-eighties, it also found itself largely on the outside of the portable device revolution of the aughts and drifting toward irrelevancy. Left for dead, twice, RadioShack gets another shot online 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Unable to capitalize on the PC boom that began in the mid-eighties, it also found itself largely on the outside of the portable device revolution of the aughts and drifting toward irrelevancy. Left for dead, twice, RadioShack gets another shot online 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z HealthMap tries to address this problem by using artificial intelligence to filter out repetition and irrelevancies. Social Media Posts and Online Searches Hold Vital Clues about Pandemic Spread 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Instead, it relies on bare conclusions, pointless irrelevancies and outright misstatements — including whether Trump “raised the important issue of corruption” in his July 25 phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. Opinion | George Conway: The worst thing about Trump’s answer to the impeachment articles 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z The ASRM’s pitch to legislators bristles with irrelevancies and misleading claims. Column: Paying women to donate their eggs for research is still a terrible idea 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Nadler told Fox News Sunday any Republican questioning of Mueller about supposed FBI misconduct, an attack line meant to discredit the special counsel’s work, would be an “irrelevancy” and a waste of time. Nadler: Mueller has evidence of Trump high crimes and misdemeanours 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Nadler dismissed Republicans’ approach, saying, “If they want to debate, or discuss I should say, this irrelevancy, let them waste their time.” Rep. Jerrold Nadler: Mueller testimony could tip scales for ‘holding the president accountable’ 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z Clearly, then, some lifters still aren’t getting the message that because of systematic doping, they and their sport are on a slippery slope toward becoming an irrelevancy and a joke. Column: IOC must wield big stick to clean up weightlifting 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z That shocking pledge was met with a roar of approval from the Democrats - including Speaker Nancy Pelosi - who celebrated the notion of their own institutional irrelevancy. Will Trump win his legal fight over the wall? 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z Senator Jeff Flake, a retiring Republican from Arizona, said the party is “writing ourselves into irrelevancy if we don’t appeal to a broader electorate.” Trump’s Judicial Nominees Take Heat but Largely Keep Marching Through Senate 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Short of Elon Musk’s dire warnings about computer learning creating “immortal dictators” and fostering human irrelevancy, many in computer science including Schrittwieser agree the field should proceed with caution and transparency. "Superhuman" AI Triumphs Playing the Toughest Board Games 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z If suburbanites have become permanently alienated from the GOP brand, then moderate Republicans seem likely to follow the Blue Dog Democrats into political irrelevancy. Perspective | Moderate Republicans aren’t dead. They’re hiding in plain sight. 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Because of the brand’s mechanical distinctiveness, the cars are harder to evolve and so risk technical irrelevancy in a market pursuing low and no emissions. 2019 Subaru Forester: Do You Want Your Car to Spy on You? 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The primary reason New Jersey’s proud high school football tradition is plunging toward irrelevancy is the growing concern about head injuries, many coaches and administrators said. Across New Jersey, the Friday Night Lights Grow Dimmer 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Losing one or more of the House districts would be a humiliating blow to a party that has been drifting toward irrelevancy in California for years. California’s Orange County could determine Congress control 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z In all our encounters, Monáe seemed as if she was bracing herself for anything, including the worst — harsh reviews, irrelevancy, dismissals. How Janelle Monáe Found Her Voice 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z As their members struggled with poverty, they mouthed “pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities.” Opinion | We Forgot What Dr. King Believed In 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z In 2020, California’s presidential primary, which usually has been a June irrelevancy, will occur in March. Opinion | Los Angeles’s mayor deserves a presidential hearing 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z The friction within the club and grumbling from Conte suggests all is not well as another Chelsea title defense drifts into irrelevancy. Moans, lack of support signal Conte’s Chelsea future on line 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z At that point, his death, his literal death, was almost an irrelevancy. 'Young Charlie' podcast explores a different side of Manson — a kid before a murderer 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z I think there’s relief in this sort of irrelevancy. Welcome to Radio Garden, free from the internet’s sin 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z This is it, the long slow fall into irrelevancy, with only my CD collection of Drive Time 4 to soundtrack my decline. Not happy – why Pharrell Williams needs to update his views on childcare 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z He wants Trump to stop his town’s slow slip toward irrelevancy. How a community changed by refugees came to embrace Trump 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z During the past century, most professional cosmologists have come to see “Titius-Bode” as a quaint irrelevancy, yet every generation or so it is revived by people seeking to justify it with further theoretical extensions. Opinion | Whose scientific theories are permitted into the mainstream? 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z With Trump as president, is rustic Camp David doomed to irrelevancy? He was almost killed in Afghanistan. Now he’s been painted by the president who sent him there. 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z “Before our highly politicized news media slides into complete irrelevancy, I strongly advise reporters and editors to pause and evaluate their reporting — set aside personal biases, reinvigorate journalistic standards — then get back to reporting facts.” Trump keeps William Henry Harrison’s record safe for shortest presidential term 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z The accusers' presence in the courtroom will be determined after what will likely be two days of arguments over whether their testimony is critical Cosby-related information or a jury-biasing irrelevancy. Lawyers in Bill Cosby sexual assault hearing argue about whether accusers can testify 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z To use those same measures, weighted in exactly the same way, for this new mode seems like an irrelevancy, like criticizing a self-driving car because it lacks a comfortable steering wheel. NYFF: Ang Lee's war film 'Billy Lynn' divides audiences. But are traditional assessments beside the point? 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z In doing so, Comey employed a time-honored rhetorical device used by criminal lawyers every day in courtrooms across America, i.e., raising an utter irrelevancy to divert, distract, confound and confuse the jury. If Hillary didn’t mishandle classified information, no one can 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z But sub-.500 teams don’t need to slog through June, July, August and September in a haze of irrelevancy and depression. What does a baseball team do when its season is over with 100 games to go? 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z It was Tiger Woods, only 40 years old but beset by back injuries and quickly approaching irrelevancy in a sport he dominated not so long ago. Jordan Spieth is ready to vanquish Tiger Woods’ ghost once and for all 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z One of his favorite techniques is to not answer questions with a spray of non sequiturs and irrelevancies, counting on reporters eventually moving on. Make the Media Great Again 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z “The five would narrow Heller to the point of irrelevancy,” he said, speaking of the law that said Americans had a constitutional right to keep handguns at home. Scalia’s Death Offers Best Chance in a Generation to Reshape Supreme Court 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Cruz hopes a strong debate performance will help prevent him from becoming yet another Iowa winner who quickly faded into irrelevancy. The Republican Party's leading presidential candidates will meet on the debate stage once again Saturday night _ with a new sense of urgency 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z All along, it's been this attitude for the Clinton campaign: "let's ignore Bernie as an irrelevancy in my path to coronation." Clinton Campaign Underestimated Sanders Strengths, Allies Say 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z The Girl on the Train was widely and excessively trumpeted as “the next Gone Girl”, a phrase now overused to the point of irrelevancy. Crime fiction in 2015: the rise of the Girl that could be any of us 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z In fact they risk alienating its existing base and pushing the product into irrelevancy. The 'hearts' are the final straw: it's time to nationalise Twitter | Osman Faruqi 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z With irrelevancy lurking in the shadows, like one of his fictional boogeymen, the director needed to save his career. The Visit review: the most shocking Shyamalan twist is a good movie 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z The third season maintains and introduces a raft of interesting personalities, but suffers slightly from the increasing irrelevancy of its top-billed character, Piper Chapman. Netflix lets new season of Orange is the New Black out a little early 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Eight years later few are sad to see him leave, probably the most salient proof of Blair’s growing diplomatic irrelevancy. How Tony Blair Became the Devils' Advocate 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Jocelyn Webster, a spokeswoman for Walker, later phoned the Washington Post to say the governor was trying to point out the irrelevancy of the reporters' question, not challenge Obama's faith. Criticism of Obama Reaches New Level 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Idiocy is the order of the day, as the country slides ineluctably down the slope of second-rate irrelevancy and other nations, starting with China, eat up our capital and our very soul. Better but Still Troubled: Our Take on the State of the Union 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Barack Obama has made a geopolitical irrelevancy suddenly relevant to American presidential politics. George Will: Cuba Derangement Syndrome strikes again 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Seven weeks ago, President Obama was apparently supposed to be a defeated man, crushed by an electoral rebuke, pushed into irrelevancy by an ascendant far-right majority in Congress. The 'Obama refuses to lead' crowd falls silent 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Sometimes it seems to me that young people are, indeed, entirely too quiet, too narcotized by gadgets, games and irrelevancies to notice the world is going to heck around them. Some thoughts as we wait to see whether Ferguson burns 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Is it a surprise that employees consider the irrelevancy of policies and ops of HR department as an obstacle to getting things done? Up-skilling HR Is That First Domino To Performance Gains 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z As Bob Kane himself said, the Batman television series basically saved the Batman comic book from, if not outright cancellation, cultural irrelevancy. The 'Batman' TV Series Is The Greatest Batman Story Ever Told 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z As they brawl about Cuba, a geopolitical irrelevancy, neither seems presidential. George Will: Cuba Derangement Syndrome strikes again 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z If the Republicans win, then it’s an unquestioned affirmation of conservatism and/or a crippling rebuke of liberalism that Democrats and the left will scarcely be able to recover from as they slide towards irrelevancy. Krauthammer’s hackery, explained: Conservatives always win, no matter what! 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z They may still be following some invisible, handcrafted line through portions of the game, but it's concealed to point of irrelevancy for the player. After a year of waiting, we're finally seeing the new generation of video games 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z “As we learn more about the detailed mechanisms in the brain, the question of ‘What is consciousness?’ will fade away into irrelevancy and abstraction,” he said. The Anatomy of Attention 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z “Bonds’ ‘child of a famous father’ irrelevancy was literally true, but not at all misleading - merely irrelevant - and therefore not corruptly obstructive as the statute commands. Barry Bonds appeal heads back to court 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z The general conclusion of the panel, hosted by BrightTalk, is that private cloud is quickly slipping into irrelevancy. Private Cloud Destined To Fade Away, Some Argue 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z Look at the cautionary tales from the last shift: companies like RIM; it went from market leadership to irrelevancy in three years. Where's the Value Going to Be in Value Added Resellers? 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z His departure from Chavez Ravine was the beginning of a spiral into more deceit, desperation and, ultimately, irrelevancy. Manny (Ramirez) is still being Manny, but it's not nearly the same 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z In their first years the Bretton Woods institutions flirted with irrelevancy. Not floating, but flailing 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Boehner answered with another irrelevancy about how “the president continues to ignore laws.” Dana Milbank: John Boehner chooses job security over leadership Indeed, the only thing more surprising this season than Manchester United’s collapse to irrelevancy may be Liverpool’s rapid ascent. Liverpool 3, Manchester City 2: Liverpool Edges Manchester City and Edges Toward Premier League Title 2014-04-13T18:29:18Z The evolution into older irrelevancy is soothed with the delights of a ski house in Tahoe, a rich suntan or a Porsche collection. Snubbed By Oracle, Workday's Duffield And Bhusri Hit Jackpot 2013-09-16T11:50:00Z The life cycle of innovation, adoption, missteps and irrelevancy is the inevitable fate of all companies. What’s behind Microsoft’s fall from dominance? 2013-09-06T13:17:00Z Continuing to contract by cutting the staff would lead to extinction, he said, “or, at best, irrelevancy.” Bezos courts Washington Post editors, reporters 2013-09-04T18:40:52Z The death of Google Reader was greeted in some quarters as the potential death – or at least a continued slide into irrelevancy – of RSS. Digg Reader RSS app to launch before Google Reader shuts down 2013-06-17T17:23:17Z I don't necessarily doubt DIA supports that, but to admit it blows him into irrelevancy as no sane American would accept it. Rand Paul's truthiness: Beware the spectre of inflation 2013-05-28T11:28:57Z We fear irrelevancy as people choose cheaper ways to play, via games that are free or a few dollars at most. Zynga Reaps What They've Digitally Sowed 2013-06-04T13:16:43Z Fortunately, Bitcoin transcends the conventional philosophy of regulation by reducing certain aspects to irrelevancy. Bitcoin Foundation Expands Global Media Opportunities 2013-04-22T12:19:18Z Ahead of them was a bye week, followed by what appeared to be a slow winter’s slog toward irrelevancy, with all its attendant discontent and pointed questions about the franchise’s direction under Shanahan’s rule. Washington Redskins’ season turned around in two weeks 2012-12-22T19:37:00Z “The electoral college was set up with the idea that electors would not be influenced by irrelevancies or propaganda.” Electoral college set to vote on President Obama’s reelection 2012-12-16T22:51:00Z The slip into irrelevancy is the inflection point into failure. Irrelevancy Leads to Failure - Worry for Yahoo, Microsoft, HP, Sears, etc. 2012-11-30T01:05:47Z Sometimes that means when you are framing it you should try to remove any distractions or irrelevancies. Sport photography: Tom Jenkins 2012-11-16T23:39:01Z Which created to revenue stagnation, margin erosion and an increasing irrelevancy of Kraft in the marketplace – despite its enormous size. Innovation Matters; Why You Care More About Apple than Kraft 2012-09-18T21:04:52Z The sanctions will test the commitment of the players, coaches and recruits tied to the Penn State program, which is almost certain to enter a period of irrelevancy on the field. Penn State penalties include 4-year postseason ban | College football 2012-07-24T04:43:03Z But as they proceed, the Newhouses should remember that cutting corners ignores a fundamental fact: great journalism, on any platform, is the one sure hedge against irrelevancy. The Media Equation: Newspapers Are Running Out of Time to Adapt to Digital Future 2012-07-08T22:39:25Z Similarly Kodak was the darling of Wall Street for years as it was losing the digital war, a superbly managed slide to irrelevancy and collapse. That's All Folks: Why the Writing Is on the Wall at Microsoft 2012-06-19T21:09:28Z But Mr. Gingrich’s increasingly quirky campaign is in danger of descending into irrelevancy, at least as far as the Republican nomination is concerned. Gingrich Soldiers On, Despite Dearth of Delegates 2012-03-26T05:28:01Z An N.C.A.A. investigation and sanctions crippled the program, sending it into five years of irrelevancy. Andrew Nicholson Leads St. Bonaventure Into N.C.A.A. Tournament 2012-03-16T01:27:52Z "Windiness" and irrelevancy are the twin evils of conversations in fiction. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z It was embroidered at the corners with anchors in white cotton, and it recurred to me with a quaint irrelevancy that the man had been a sailor in his youth. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z For the moment, extenuating irrelevancies were to be the order of the day. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Your best reasoning is worsted by gracious irrelevancy; your protesting attacks are turned by acquiescing politeness; and the East moves on its smiling, unalterable way. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z Still, questions endure about whether, absent Zuccotti Park, the movement might lose momentum or drift into irrelevancy. Occupy Wall Street Organizers Consider Value of Camps 2011-11-15T23:49:30Z Since the plot of a one-act play is highly simplified, determine whether there are any complexities, any irrelevancies, any digressions. Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-11-12T03:00:36.860Z Over and over again he was interrupted by the committee, who complained of the irrelevancy of his testimony. The Woman Who Vowed The Demetrian 2011-10-24T02:00:18.500Z “AMD is on the verge of sinking into irrelevancy as ARM-based competitors gain share in low-end computing and extends its advantages in performance and manufacturing.” AMD Now 'Verging On Irrelvancy,' Analyst Says 2011-10-13T15:31:56Z The continent's leaders must seize that momentum to avoid slipping into irrelevancy in ... Africa's Middle Class to Boom 2011-10-13T01:35:02Z Knowledge, scientific thinking, and historical facts are all being relegated to the level of irrelevancy by some of our political leaders. Parent trigger laws: Part of school reform?s ?silly season? 2011-10-12T08:00:00Z "Yes," said Judith, faintly; "I'm so glad——" Of what she did not say, but irrelevancy did not seem to matter. The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 2011-09-21T02:00:33.023Z She cleared her throat, and added with tart irrelevancy, "I had a letter from Angelica a few weeks ago." The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z The total irrelevancy of the saying to its context, its omission by the oldest authorities from Matth. xx. Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:33.183Z The irrelevancy of this latter contention,—the groundlessness of the former,—may not be passed over without a few words of serious remonstrance. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z A draft of that reply says that the technical comment contains "a mix of criticism with little scientific basis, false statements, irrelevancies, and suggestions of scientific misconduct", and that the group has been cleared. Misconduct at the DOE: Investigation closed 2011-07-06T17:20:18.643Z The taste which overloads dress and architecture with superfluous irrelevancies, is often quite in opposition to that true sense of beauty which is indispensable to the artist and precious to the philosopher. Modern Society 2011-06-23T02:00:27.897Z Do you know," she said, surprising him by what seemed the utter irrelevancy of her remark,—"we have always been much interested in the history of little Cecilia's mother. Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time 2011-05-30T02:00:12.077Z We talked irrelevancies for a moment more—the passion of the convolvulus moth for petunias, and the other flowers the different sorts of moths and butterflies preferred. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z In those days they allowed a degree of irrelevancy in counsels' speeches that would not be tolerated for a moment in the twentieth century. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z Nor can the traditional Chinese fear of political chaos be dismissed as an anachronistic irrelevancy needing only ‘correction’ by Western enlightenment.” Dr. K's Rx for China 2011-05-15T05:00:00Z For centuries the King’s Bench judges have worked off their natural irrelevancy in charging the grand juries at assize towns to the great benefit of themselves and the local papers. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z At the same time the digressions and irrelevancies are as good as ever. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z These are mere irrelevancies; they fall short of the point in dispute; and they only seem to reach it by means of a very “convenient ambiguity” of words. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z Team officials waited too long to rebuild, and the Kings slipped into competitive irrelevancy. Feelings of Foreboding in Sacramento as the Kings Wither 2011-04-09T17:30:29Z David Cameron is doing these things while you rail against irrelevancies. So Sarah Brown didn't make Gordon a boiled egg and soldiers. Get over it 2011-02-27T00:05:36Z This national safeguard, this barrier between judicial irrelevancy and the public at large, should not be removed in a careless spirit. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z Harmonix might have outlasted Guitar Hero, but it’s now got a larger battle to fight: irrelevancy. With Guitar Hero Dead, Rock Band Marches on 2011-02-11T16:02:09Z International friendlies tend to be viewed either as irritants or irrelevancies - much like seaweed, the human appendix or that Welsh appendage, Robbie Savage. The Fiver: Jack Wilshere, and a demolished David Trezeguet shirt from France 98 2011-02-09T16:40:05Z Its managers were worse than irrelevancies, they were calamities. Wayne Rooney symbolises the greed that laid us low 2010-10-23T23:04:00Z Arm those vulnerable to its message with the truth, and they will laugh it into irrelevancy. My Turn: A Novel Approach to Battling Al Qaeda 2010-08-13T05:00:00Z Now, with Nebraska's move to the Big Ten, Osborne is one of the key architects in putting the Big 12 on the brink of irrelevancy, if not destruction. To Nebraska's Osborne, future trumps tradition 2010-06-12T18:44:00Z "I object, Your Honor, on the ground of irrelevancy." Manslaughter Ultimately I believe Aristotle's remark to be the truest guide, and I am tempted to hope that with the publication of the second volume many irrelevancies have established their relevancy. Sinister Street, vol. 2 They are assumed in a sort of triumphant strain to prove the point in question, while, to the student of antiquity, their weakness, or, sometimes, their irrelevancy, only proves the reverse. The Church of England cleared from the charge of Schism Upon Testimonies of Councils and Fathers of the first six centuries Now, the æsthetic aspect of the philosophic system, its autonomy, and consequent irrelevancy, are undeniable. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude But interspersed with lines of great force and beauty are cumbrous irrelevancies, wholly superfluous details. The Vagabond in Literature He always had a way of ignoring all side issues or carefully introduced irrelevancy. Through the Postern Gate A Romance in Seven Days The remark broke in upon her thoughts as something almost silly in its irrelevancy. John Dene of Toronto A Comedy of Whitehall The Rector was turning over the pages of a seed-catalogue and answered Pauline's question with that engaging irrelevancy to which his family and parish were accustomed. Plashers Mead A Novel The relevancy of this or that remark may not at first sight be apparent, but irrelevancy is impossible to this writer. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I When Constance, with averted eyes,— Soft-bonneted as some sweet-pea,— If I speak marriage, just replies With some such quaint irrelevancy, As, While the red-bird sings his best, His loving mate sits on the nest. Shapes and Shadows It has none of the whimsical irrelevancy to surroundings characterizing so much of the work to follow, nor its hasty execution. Cathedrals of Spain A very striking point of similarity is the occasional irrelevancy of the answers. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 For the sake of the traveller in Venice the reader will, I think, pardon me the momentary irrelevancy of telling the meaning of these symbols. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) “Madam,” replied Denis, with a fine irrelevancy, “if 268 I have said anything to wound you, believe me it was for your own sake and not for mine.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) The irrelevancy of the question only added to its staggering effect. At the Crossroads Flippant interruptions the sage seemed to disregard, and if the topic dribbled out into irrelevancies he fell silent. Dreamers of the Ghetto The very irrelevancy of the statement, coupled with her calm serenity, was appalling to the old man. Once to Every Man It did not in the slightest detract from the interest of a meeting that many of the remarks erred on the score of irrelevancy. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland In fact, irrelevancy appears to the European the chief characteristic of what he sees on the stage of a Japanese theatre. The Empire of the East These words were rattled off with great volubility, which seemed all the greater because of their surprising irrelevancy; while the head, thrown gayly to one side, balanced the quid in the bulged cheek. The Young Surveyor; or Jack on the Prairies He cursed at Pitcairn as they dragged him out," she said, and then bringing her little fists down on my knee, she cried with apparent irrelevancy: "It's not the way, Jock! Nancy Stair A Novel Especially shall we require him to adhere to the point he has undertaken to discuss, and to retrench all irrelevancies. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Many of the young scribes on the mainland can also indulge in a deal of brilliant irrelevancy. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland There are, then, roughly three main characteristics of Thackeray: his irrelevancy, his rambling style, and his frequent reference to the past. Gilbert Keith Chesterton "But no more there is here on board," she said, struggling with the laugh which the dry irrelevancy had brought to her lips. The Sign of the Spider She stands before a tribunal on a matter of life and death, and with that rapt look offers a plea of such irrelevancy! The Wagnerian Romances It is a great book because the romance of it emerges into undisturbed amplitude of space, and asserts itself in large, grand, primitive forms unfretted by teasing irrelevancies. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations An airy irrelevancy was quite as common as the serious note. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland It comes to this: if you want to make an extract from Thackeray you must dive about all over the place to make apparent irrelevancy become relevancy. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Indeed, he continued to make a fairly logical sequence of incidents out of the famous nonsense paragraph invented to confound mnemonics by its absolute irrelevancy. Children's Books and Their Illustrators It is a most remarkable exhibition of energy, a case from which flippancies and irrelevancies have been removed, and where the central conviction advances irresistibly. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study It is amusing to watch the thousand and one devices by which he disentangles his people from the intrusive irrelevancy of work. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations By the irrelevancy of the punishment to the crime, and by the intrusion of secondary matters into the complaint, the "Chesapeake" issue, essentially clear, sharp, and impressive, became hopelessly confused with other considerations. Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 The charge that his irrelevancy was a weakness is based on another false but popular premise, that the direct method is always the best. Gilbert Keith Chesterton The curious irrelevancy of such applications never strikes persons; unless, indeed, a perception of incongruity is the soul of wit, a definition which I think I have heard. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life The temptation to diffuseness and irrelevancy is as embarrassing and dangerous. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography He loved the incongruities and inconsistencies of such a world; its outrageous Rabelaisian jests, its monstrous changes and chances, its huge irrelevancy. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations The scientific irrelevancies and solemn popularities, less elaborately embodied, I seem to have met with before—in papers signed by more than one serious and unqualified sage, whose mind also was not narrowed by knowledge. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies Sometimes Thackeray became lost in his irrelevancy, sometimes he became almost unintelligible in his rambling style, now and then his use of ancient quotation became irritating. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Finally, Arethusa felt that she could not stand all this irrelevancy another second; her impatient longing had to be expressed. The Heart of Arethusa "Yes," she answered, surprised at the irrelevancy of the question. The Music Master Novelized from the Play There was something of women’s highly practical sanity and also of their irrelevancy in the conduct of Miss de Barral’s amazing governess. Chance A Tale in Two Parts That the accidental owners of the Gallery should introduce themselves to the situation, is of a most marked irrelevancy. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies The fault, therefore, of its imputed irrelevancy is not mine: it is the Reviewer’s, who has thought proper to review the work before it was complete. Diary in America, Series Two Mr. Philip Callan, M.P. for County Louth, was speaking on an amendment to one of the new Rules, and Mr. M—— L—— thrice tried to call him to order on the ground of irrelevancy. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography My dear friend!" the Countess exclaimed, with truly feminine irrelevancy, "I am delighted. High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn Hers was not a rare temperament, except in its fierce resentment of repression; a feeling which like genius or lunacy is apt to drive people into sudden irrelevancy. Chance A Tale in Two Parts In the book which is called "Letters from America", the attraction lies in its preface, despite the so noticeable irrelevancy of style. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets "He fooled me—too," she said, in what sounded like a complete irrelevancy. Highways in Hiding When his blood was up, he must either speak or burst; but his indignation, though it found vent in flashing sarcasms, never betrayed him into irrelevancies or inexactitudes. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography He talked with cheerful irrelevancy and bustled about, heating a bowlder for her feet and warming her overshoes. The Moccasin Ranch A Story of Dakota Then the same process was repeated over the Council of Trent; and the debate whirled off once more into details and irrelevancies about imputed righteousness, and the denial of the Cup to the laity. By What Authority? "I have so little luggage," I broke in, trying to make up with emphasis for irrelevancy. Set in Silver I let my mind merely ramble on with the usual pile of irrelevancies that the mind uses to fill in blank spaces. Highways in Hiding Yes," interrupted the first clerk, with amazing irrelevancy, "but a man of Henry Clay's experience ought to have known better. Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi "Why?" asked Diana, secretly astonished by the irrelevancy of the remark. The Silent House And so with a few more irrelevancies the debate ended. By What Authority? "Have you invited your freshman yet?" she asked with sudden irrelevancy. Jane Allen: Right Guard He finds the charm in such hazards in their utter irrelevancy, and truly they can only be excused as flowing from a wild and unchastened fancy. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 At other times, following the course of her ideas, she would interrupt the conversation, without noticing the irrelevancy of her words. Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda) Though the rhetoric of Cleanthes may be admired, its irrelevancy to the point at issue must be admitted. Hume (English Men of Letters Series) Sterne is not suited to readers who are disheartened at irrelevancy. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters "If the sahib says so it must be so," he pleaded, adding with truly Oriental irrelevancy, "I am a poor man and have many children." Leaves from a Field Note-Book All the free lines in the room were the tangents of irrelevancy and disorder. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel But his eyes had something wistful in their direct appeal, which perhaps the older man understood, for his expression was unusually kind as he asked with apparent irrelevancy, "Have you heard from Nina?" The Title Market But there was the strange irrelevancy, levity, the enmity—the irrational, baffling nature of the anguishing conversation, as if with the unapproachable men we meet in nightmares. Romance "I see by the paper," he remarked, "that the' was a man died in Pheladelphy one day last week," which piece of barefaced irrelevancy elicited no notice from Mrs. Bixbee. David Harum A Story of American Life The train might start at any moment, and such things as we did say were trivial irrelevancies. Leaves from a Field Note-Book The characters had the same adventurous irresponsibility, and exhibit the same irrelevancies and futilities. Adventures in Criticism The ground for refusing to permit him to continue his address was stated to be irrelevancy to the question at issue. The Awakening The Resurrection ‘Your collaboration in the search, the hunt for money, the quest, consists merely in irrelevancies and objections,’ growled Merton, lighting a cigarette. The Disentanglers His normal handlers — sour men with nasty minds who glommed onto irrelevancies in V/DT's strategy and teased at them until they conjured up shadowy and shrewd conspiracies where none existed — weren't on that call. Eastern Standard Tribe There were irrelevancies introduced into pictures for other purposes than that of statement. Art What may seem an irrelevancy turns on this very point. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas As has been said above he is often led off by his many-sided interests into irrelevancies and subtleties that interfere with simplicity and beauty. Browning's Shorter Poems Many a reply loses its point because the speaker is so much interested in what he is about to say that it is really no reply at all but merely an irritating and humiliating irrelevancy. The Art of Public Speaking "Pardon my irrelevancy, but I confess that it excites my amusement to be called 'son' by one who can not be older than myself." The Grey Cloak The plague of girls' answers is usually irrelevancy from want of thought as to the scope of questions or even from inattention to their wording. The Education of Catholic Girls "I don't know, I am sure," replied Cornelia, in some surprise at the irrelevancy of the question. Bressant For closest friends he had two of the most irrelevant thinkers on earth and he delighted to distinguish between their irrelevancies. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Her clear-cut thinking sheared away accidental things, fringes of irrelevancy. Children of the Market Place "Only four years ago," she murmured, with apparent irrelevancy. Success A Novel We began to break up our formation immediately, gabbling tactful irrelevancies about the delightful evening, the delinquent Carter, and the foolishness of Sabbatarianism. The Jervaise Comedy "I expect he was attending strictly to his own business," retorted Mr. Shrimplin, offended by the utter irrelevancy of the question. The Just and the Unjust In the first place, it may be hardly necessary to point out the irrelevancy of the reference, alleged to have been made in the Russian Note, to "Article 25 of The Hague Convention." Letters to "The Times" upon War and Neutrality (1881-1920) The irrelevancy of the question was in keeping with the odd horror of the dream. The Inner Shrine Etching demands only the most autographic features of a man's draughtsmanship; it prevents him from spreading himself in the irrelevancies of space-covering lines necessary in work done to meet the demand of the Editor's measure. George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians Made to pick these up, the result was still a droning monotony burdened with many irrelevancies. Somewhere in Red Gap Her surprise seemed to him to be more at the thing he had asked than at its amazing unexpectedness and amazing irrelevancy. If Winter Comes I am growing used to a certain irrelevancy in YAHKOB's conversation. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891 I hope, at least, that this irrelevancy will give neither pain nor offence to any one, for nothing could be further from my wish or intention than such an effect. Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850 "By the bye." said the squire with the bold irrelevancy of a man who wants to turn the subject, "are you fond of flowers?" A Tale of a Lonely Parish Thirty answers have been thrown out for irrelevancy or defectiveness. A Librarian's Open Shelf To us it seemed, in those days, that a mass of scientific irrelevancies and intellectual complications had come between the artist and his vision, and, again, between the vision and its expression. Since Cézanne For instance, to "What is your favorite flower?" he answered, "My favorite flower is the carnation;"—and with utter irrelevancy, added—"and I adore dolls!" Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 She was silent a few moments, then with apparent irrelevancy said, "Do you believe in premonitions?" Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 Declining to be drawn into impromptu irrelevancies, Mucklewame stuck to his text. The First Hundred Thousand When the irrelevancy of his remarks became apparent, he was rudely howled down and his neighbors pulled him into his seat, where he gibbered and mowed inaudibly. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People Do they ever get prawns here?" say I, with apparent irrelevancy, not being able to disengage my mind from the thought of shell-fish, "or is it too far inland? Nancy The common pantomime seems like some horrible satiric picture of a world without cause or effect, a mass of 'jarring atoms,' a prolonged mental torture of irrelevancy. The Defendant Let me cite another more grotesque piece of irrelevancy with a similar drift. Studies in Literature He must fire his volley of new vocables out of his conceptual shotgun, for his profession condemns him to this industry, but he secretly knows the hollowness and irrelevancy. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature "There isn't anybody like you," said she, with no explanation of her apparent irrelevancy. The Price She Paid By the extraordinary irrelevancy of this anecdote, I am so taken aback that, for a moment, I am unable to utter. Nancy She perched on the stool and treadled at her machine all day, turning out collars, the name of whose brand could be noted for its irrelevancy to anything in connection with collars. Maggie, a Girl of the Streets His mind seemed to have freed itself of all irrelevancy and superfluity, as a stream often runs from a faucet with much spluttering and rather muddy at first, then steadies and clears. The Grain of Dust It was a mental peculiarity of his—this irrelevancy—and it was like him to end a matter of life and death in just that way. Hell Fer Sartain and Other Stories His Honor was visibly affected and to cover it—his methods being informal—he said with sharp irrelevancy: "Who bailed this young feller out last night?" A Knight of the Cumberland He flattered himself that the civil indifference of his manner, the abstract character of the topics he selected, the irrelevancy of his allusions and the laxity of his attention, all contributed to this result. Confidence He derived this incident from Nicholas' history, and thus contrived to eke out the obscurity of the third century B.C.E. with a few irrelevancies. Josephus Infinity waited a-tiptoe, tense for the coming miracle, and against this vast repression, her grief dwindled into irrelevancy: the leaves whispered comfort; each tree-bole hid chuckling fauns. The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages She was too impenetrably healthy to be touched by the irrelevancies of disease. The Greater Inclination But the principle is rested not on the statesman's ground of the irrelevancy of religious dispute to good government, but on the theological ground of the venial nature of religious error. Milton "Of course, what you say about their total irrelevancy is quite true," said George, making the concession so that it had all the belligerency of a challenge. The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors The fact thus elicited of the variability and variation of the specific gravity is of fundamental importance and involves the irrelevancy of the mathematical demonstration of the hypothesis. Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881 Paul was astonished at the irrelevancy of the question. The Ghost of Guir House This irrelevancy of Burke suggests our first criticism: that he is always eloquent, and usually right; but he is seldom convincing, and his eloquence is a hindrance rather than a help to his main purpose. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived He confessed, and, willingly, that he was a bit tired of disconnected remarks, and the wit of irrelevancies; and Mortimer, he said, fell to sulking if you didn't laugh at his jokes. A Mummer's Wife From sport and its justification, they became inconsequential; and she was beginning to enjoy the freshness of their chance acquaintance, his nice attitude toward things, his irrelevancy, his gaiety. The Fighting Chance It is solid standing-ground, and neither apparent irrelevancy nor real antagonism will dislodge the argument. Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates To secure these things which most men make the entire objective of their lives is, or should be, an irrelevancy to the man of exceptional gifts. Mankind in the Making As to the relevancy or irrelevancy of the clause in Matt. xxii. The Gospels in the Second Century An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled 'Supernatural Religion' In the same way, it is sheer gross irrelevancy to speak of Britain as an island, unless indeed the word be understood as a mere modus loquendi arising out of a rather poor geographical pleasantry. Prince Zaleski In the two following chapters I shall show the futility and irrelevancy of the above reasoning - if, indeed, that can be called reasoning which is from first to last essentially unreasonable. The Fair Haven It is almost insufferably long; it reads as though it had never been revised; it abounds in irrelevancies and superfluous characters. Essays on Russian Novelists "I feel as though a blight had settled upon my house party," Dominey remarked with bland irrelevancy. The Great Impersonation But it is enough that such assertions should be either contradictory to the known laws of nature, or exceed the limits of our experience, that their fallacy or irrelevancy to our consideration should be demonstrated. A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays The tendencies must exist in some shape anyhow, but their fruits are truth, falsity, or irrelevancy, according to what they concretely turn out to be. Meaning of Truth Thoughts partake of it directly, as they partake of falsity or of irrelevancy. Pragmatism "You know that mustard-colored linen with the black embroidery that Dolly's worn once or twice, don't you?" asked Connie, with apparent irrelevancy. Saturday's Child Had the sub-committee waited till the crack of doom, it would have made no difference whatever to the general trend of Mr. Keith's sententious irrelevancies. South Wind It is humiliating to admit it, but it is so; the substance of our lives is woman; all other things are irrelevancies, hypocrisies, subterfuges. The Untilled Field The chain of workings which an opinion sets up IS the opinion's truth, falsehood, or irrelevancy, as the case may be. Meaning of Truth Notice, however, that the customary dragging in of these irrelevancies, to confuse the main issue, is not to be wondered at, seeing that Orangeism itself is based, in a large, general way, on the Bible. Such Is Life He added some irrelevancies, and got for all answer that they had made Boyne's arrest for sufficient reasons, and were taking him to prison. The Kentons "Pardon my irrelevancy, but the remembrance of a recent adventure of mine was too strong." The Puppet Crown "Do you happen to know," continued Mrs. Bellmore, with sudden irrelevancy, "if I resemble any one of the female relatives of your restless ancestor, Captain Kinsolving?" Sixes and Sevens I, on the other hand, demand a cosmic environment of some kind to establish which of them is there rather than utter irrelevancy. Meaning of Truth The apparent irrelevancy of the request at such a moment, angered her. The Lion's Skin The unexpectedness and irrelevancy of this for a moment startled Seth. Trent's Trust, and Other Stories "You have seen Ta-den and spoken with him?" she asked with apparent irrelevancy. Tarzan the Terrible Danger often puts odd irrelevancies into the human brain. The Drums of Jeopardy It being given, whether truth, untruth, or irrelevancy shall be also given depends on something coming from the statement itself. Meaning of Truth "The operation of time is a singular one," he said with his imperturbable irrelevancy. The Club of Queer Trades "I think," said Gregory, with placid irrelevancy, "that we will call a cab." The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare They abound in obscurities, irrelevancies, solecisms, pleonasms, inconsistencies, awkwardnesses of construction, wrong uses of words. Charmides Hers was not a rare temperament, except in its fierce resentment of repression; a feeling which like genius or lunacy is apt to drive people into sudden irrelevancy. Chance A Tale in Two Parts "Still," insisted Richard, endeavouring in spite of these irrelevancies to make good his point, "there be many men who drink daily to the prosperity of the late King's natural son." Mistress Wilding They remind us of that neutral drab which certain religious sects assume to show their own irrelevancy to the world. The Soul of the Far East The excitability is opposed to slowness and one-sidedness in thought; he is easily surprised by irrelevancies; he is torn from his drowse, and behaves like a somnolent drunkard…. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students Unfortunately, time does not permit my giving the examples I would like of the varieties of resolutions in dreams—with their every degree of relevancy and irrelevancy, of a propos and bizarrerie. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 There was something of women’s highly practical sanity and also of their irrelevancy in the conduct of Miss de Barral’s amazing governess. Chance A Tale in Two Parts He was ever a short-tempered man, intolerant of irrelevancies. Mistress Wilding The broader lines appear, but then come a rush and excitement and irrelevancy, and forthwith the incipient order has vanished and the marshals must begin the work over again! The New Machiavelli |
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