But above all it was one more thing: utterly and completely beside-the-point. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Crist echoes Obama's vigorous support for building of a mega-mosque and Muslim community center near Ground Zero, using the same tone-deaf and beside-the-point freedom of religion arguments. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Mom could be fond of misty and beside-the-point musings. ❋ DEB CALETTI (2010)
The Connecticut senator - whose state includes Hartford, the so-called insurance capital of the world, and who has been the recipient of more than $800,000 in health insurance industry money this decade and - repeated his usual beside-the-point objections ( "It won't force one insurance company to give insurance to somebody who's got a pre-existing condition") before adding a new one. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Not to seize on a small beside-the-point detail, but I just want to point out that most Beatles songs you hear on the radio are just the hits. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Chuck's beside-the-point offense: If you can't respond to what's posted, respond to something else entirely and pretend it never happened. ❋ David (2006)
It's generally a choice between the open-source Linux and FreeBSD servers and the proprietary Windows Server 2003 from Microsoft, and although we're dangerously close to beside-the-point territory, the study yielded interesting results. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Of course, if you take the trouble to familiarize yourself with my blog as I've taken to familiarize myself with yours, I daresay you'll find me entirely innocent of "political correctness," which would make such a challenge even more beside-the-point than it already would be even if I did support it. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The more important point here is that Breslin — a master of the beside-the-point in his letter as well as in his book — tries to use this purported "slippage" to undermine my credibility. ❋ Hunter, Sam (1994)
It may seem trite to bring children into the political discussion - too beside-the-point when terrorists loom and the economy crumbles. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Christian is scolded for asserting his authority without honoring the order's communitarian ethic, and what seems like a beside-the-point procedural debate touches on the film's deepest spiritual and ethical concerns. ❋ By A. O. SCOTT (2011)
So do the president and his aides cite Chu's beside-the-point ❋ Unknown (2010)
Some things never change, of course, such as the beside-the-point opening and closing night films-Woody Allen's ❋ Unknown (2009)
And where some see beside-the-point fiction, I see a man in thrall to storytelling, as he has been since the early days when he hung with Bruce beneath the Asbury Park boardwalk and listened to Bruce's verbal riffs. ❋ Unknown (2009)
If you're wondering why a formerly honorable man like John McCain would build his presidential campaign around issues that are simultaneously beside-the-point, trivial, and dishonest (sex education for kindergartners, lipstick on pigs), the numbers presented here may help to solve that mystery. ❋ Unknown (2008)
