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  • Many of the professors used the Socratic method—direct, repetitive, and adversarial questioning—which had the incidental effect of humiliating unprepared students.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, that thing you are dreading — it will happen on Friday the sixteenth of October.†   (source)
  • Some of the nominees had declined the offer for lack of interest or because they could not afford the $800 that being a debutante would cost, including the entrance fee, the price of a gown, the expense of hosting a social event, and incidentals.†   (source)
  • Oh yeah, incidentally, speaking of Stargirl: "Did you happen to get a card?"†   (source)
  • I went over after breakfast one day, after sharing Ty's wordless meal and hearing him recite his plans for the day and the incidental information that he wouldn't be home for dinner.†   (source)
  • The electric clocks in this building are useless, incidentally.†   (source)
  • As a person who lives near the beach, it made a lot of sense to me: These words I speak to you are not incidental additions to your life, homeowner improvements to your standard of living.†   (source)
  • In her most recent adventure, she is closing in on a giant kangaroo—an extinct species, incidentally, the size of a bounding bison—she can taste the meat.†   (source)
  • And incidentally'neither does the judge.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, from your description, the Bernini you refer to is the one in the Piazza Barberini, not the Piazza Navona.†   (source)
  • Chuck, incidentally, had decided that the best strategy was to shave off Lefty.†   (source)
  • Who, incidentally, vanished into thin air after my accident—never saw her again after that afternoon at the stupid Pixar film.†   (source)
  • My mother, incidentally, is also bursting with curiosity and simply dying to ask what we talk about, only she's secretly afraid I'd refuse to answer.†   (source)
  • On these occasions, a human audience was welcome, but entirely incidental.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, the time that elapsed between their founding and their arguably greatest artistic achievements, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and The Beatles [White Album], is ten years.†   (source)
  • And, incidentally, he was playing with fire again, helping an intruder to escape undetected from his father's house.†   (source)
  • Their conflict, however, reaches far beyond any incidental armed clashes.†   (source)
  • Along the way, Mameha told me we would be attending a sumo exhibition as the guests of Iwamura Ken, the founder of Iwamura Electric in Osaka—which, incidentally, was the manufacturer of the heater that had killed Granny.†   (source)
  • His contributions are incidental, and never fully his own: a stairwell, a skylight, a corridor, an air-conditioning duct.†   (source)
  • A carriage trundled by on the road and Lentaren stepped out of the way, incidentally brushing up against Denna as he moved.†   (source)
  • The Shrike Temple had used androids extensively, complying with the Church of the Shrike doctrine which proclaimed that androids were free from original sin, therefore spiritually superior to humankind and— incidentally-exempt from the Shrike's terrible and inevitable retribution.†   (source)
  • And they looked nothing like the other heroes I saw, the guys in the movies, white men like Steve McQueen and Paul Newman who beat the bad guys and in the end got the pretty girl-who, incidentally, was always white.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, you may not be aware, but the identity of the patient is already a matter of public record inasmuch as newspaper reports have completely identified the individual.†   (source)
  • In any case, the alcohol at supper and the marijuana after combine to relax the narrator so he can receive the full force of his insight, so he can share in the drawing of a cathedral (which, incidentally, is a place of communion).†   (source)
  • Incidentally, the word 'theater' comes from an old Greek word meaning 'to see.'†   (source)
  • And, incidentally, to Hiro.†   (source)
  • He also composed music for children, incidental music for radio plays, and more film scores.†   (source)
  • The basketball coach, John Harrington, had a similarly incidental encounter with Big Mike in action, inside the Briarcrest gym.†   (source)
  • He's incidental.†   (source)
  • I had quite a lot to ponder as I sat on that airplane, and incidentally I still had to pee.†   (source)
  • What Olmsted wanted were "minor incidents ...of a less evidently prepared character; less formal, more apparently spontaneous and incidental."†   (source)
  • Two things I could use right now, incidentally.†   (source)
  • They've also sent some incidental things—jewelry for the Lady Jessica, spice liquor, candy, medicinals.†   (source)
  • Then one afternoon, walking back home with the icy wind in his face (and incidentally feeling hungrier than he had ever felt before), his eye was caught suddenly by something silvery lying in the gutter, in the snow.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, In thirty-eight, at the Kotlas deportation point, I met my former squadron commander.†   (source)
  • For two hours I worked, interrupted only by my mother bringing Quentin and incidentally me some milk and cookies.†   (source)
  • Murray seemed engrossed in the incidental mesh.†   (source)
  • Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?†   (source)
  • The privileges affected by these classifications included visits and letters, studies, and the opportunity to buy groceries and incidentals—all of which are the lifeblood of any prisoner.†   (source)
  • Pol explained to Sophos, and incidentally to me, that if you are already rising when the horse's shoulder bumps your backside, you have a more comfortable ride.†   (source)
  • They did not belong to those generations of prostitutes created in novels, with great and generous hearts, dedicated, because of the horror of circumstance, to ameliorating, the luckless, barren life of men, taking money incidentally and humbly for their "understanding."†   (source)
  • Which, incidentally, were bullet-pointed and divided into headings and subheadings†   (source)
  • At times it seemed to her they were so focused on disease that patients and suffering were incidental to their work.†   (source)
  • For what purpose had he broken into the Clutter house, and how, incidentally, had he managed it?†   (source)
  • He had a tremendous wang, incidentally.†   (source)
  • I don't mention my need to escape the confines of her house, but I do confess, "And a little cash for gas, diapers, and incidentals (!)†   (source)
  • Incidentally, it's been brought to my attention that you two have made some arrangement with your medication-you are letting Bruce have your medication, aren't you, Mr. Sefelt?†   (source)
  • Often we will take advantage of patterns in the data that were incidentally left behind, like an airplane's sharp contrail in a high sky.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, Sam, he was somebody else who, to quote ..."did not distinguish himself, scholastically."†   (source)
  • Dr. Korb read about Cedric in the Wall Street Journal story and has paid for periodic tutoring and incidentals, mostly books and some school clothes.†   (source)
  • Suddenly: "Can I get to the railroad down this side?" the man asked her in that odd, incidental voice of his which suggested that what he said was merely a small portion of what he thought.†   (source)
  • But there's some chemical in human spit, you see, and if you spit into the beer and then sing the beer song, it turns the poison into something harmless with a lovely nutty flavor that, incidentally, I have improved very considerably, everyone says.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, she prefers dark chocolate.†   (source)
  • Spearheaded by visionary architects such as William Le Baron Jenney, Louis Sullivan, H.H. Richardson, Daniel Burnham, and John Root, the new architecture stripped away incidental ornamentation.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, Chaplain, not a word about this beforehand to Colonel Korn.†   (source)
  • Her son squatted beside Grey Wind, ruffling the wolf's fur and incidentally avoiding her eyes.†   (source)
  • Promise me—incidental to the issue—Anglo-Saxon—dirty word—Childe Roland.†   (source)
  • The simplest, most ordinary things, that in other times had seemed incidentals, could lift his heart and set his mind soaring.†   (source)
  • "Don't make it what it wasn't" You are incidental, Doctor.†   (source)
  • But comeliness was an incidental matter.†   (source)
  • If incidental parts look worn or damaged or loose this is the time to note it so that you can make all your parts purchases at the same time.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, He's flying your plane.†   (source)
  • Whether or not he has sex with his victims is incidental.†   (source)
  • The population of Best, incidentally, is one.†   (source)
  • I think of Gauguin or D. H. Lawrence or Ernest Hemingway, who, incidentally, used to go fishing with my Abuelo Guillermo in Cuba, and I become convinced that you have to live in the world to say anything meaningful about it.†   (source)
  • Pollack, not incidentally, also worked under Secretary Stanton as a War Department employee.†   (source)
  • Sky noises and the abrupt light told her details of careers, incidental wisdom, allowing her to risk everything because the thunder would warn her along with the snake of lighming.†   (source)
  • Or will you dream of something a little more cosmic—zum Beispiel, playing Pierre or Andrey in a Technicolor production of War and Peace, with stunning battlefield scenes, and all the nuances of characterization left out (on the ground that they're novel-istic and unphotogenic), and Anna Magnani daringly cast as Natasha (just to keep the production classy and Honest), and gorgeous incidental music by Dmitri Popkin, and all the male leads intermittently rippling their jaw muscles to show they're under great emotional stress, and a World Premiere at the Winter Garden, under floodlights, with Molotov and Milton Berle and Governor Dewey introducing the celebrities as they come into the theatre.†   (source)
  • And in what incidental details did their future fate lie?†   (source)
  • Incidentally....†   (source)
  • The one, incidentally, we still have and use.†   (source)
  • There was no need to present a credit card; ISIS had already paid for her room charges and incidentals.†   (source)
  • A wealth of combed and clipped mustache gave him the appearance and attitude of a French rake of the nineteenth century, and incidentally concealed his crooked front teeth.†   (source)
  • Such a captive maiden, having plenty of time to think, soon realizes that her tower, its height and architecture, are like her ego only incidental: that what really keeps her where she is is magic, anonymous and malignant, visited on her from outside and for no reason at all.†   (source)
  • We discovered, incidentally, that although Mr. Allen was not involved in civil rights, as the officials stated (as though that were a good enough reason for getting killed!)†   (source)
  • That it was criminal was incidental to my moral shock.†   (source)
  • Incidentally we've got a very fine symphony orchestra-probably among the world's half-dozen best.†   (source)
  • The first obliterated the SAC base at Homestead, and incidentally sank and returned to the sea a considerable area of Florida's tip.†   (source)
  • She was shown this mercy because she was judged an incidental accomplice only, one misled by Kubera, whom she had trusted.†   (source)
  • But in the middle of the night she went down and asked him to come up where he belonged, but he was grieving and wouldn't come—it had come to his poor slow wits, finally, that though all she had said she had said in rage, and the words had nothing to do with the rage, they were incidentally true.†   (source)
  • He also contributed $ iso for the trip for gas, food, and incidental expenses.†   (source)
  • Komarovsky is still there, we saw him-and incidentally I don't think he saw us.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, brother, when you go back—†   (source)
  • But that is only incidental, you understand, and in a way, unavoidable.   (source)
  • "Precisely," said Schliemann; "the low knavery and the ferocious cruelty incidental to them, the plotting and the lying and the bribing, the blustering and bragging, the screaming egotism, the hurrying and worrying."   (source)
    incidental = that comes with
  • Consider the wastes incidental to the blind and haphazard production of commodities—the factories closed, the workers idle, the goods spoiling in storage; consider the activities of the stock manipulator, the paralyzing of whole industries, the overstimulation of others, for speculative purposes; the assignments and bank failures, the crises and panics, the deserted towns and the starving populations!   (source)
  • Consider the wastes incidental to the crowding into cities, made necessary by competition and by monopoly railroad rates; consider the slums, the bad air, the disease and the waste of vital energies; consider the office buildings, the waste of time and material in the piling of story upon story, and the burrowing underground!   (source)
  • Consider all the waste incidental to the manufacture of cheap qualities of goods, of goods made to sell and deceive the ignorant; consider the wastes of adulteration,—the shoddy clothing, the cotton blankets, the unstable tenements, the ground-cork life-preservers, the adulterated milk, the aniline soda water, the potato-flour sausages—   (source)
  • ...and Jurgis, who was learning things fast, spent all Sunday making a bargain for these, and he made it in the presence of witnesses, so that when the man tried to charge him for all sorts of incidentals, he did not have to pay.   (source)
    incidentals = things that come with something else but are less important than it
  • Gay sex, incidentally, was something we were even more confused about.†   (source)
    incidentally = of something that comes with something else, but is less important than it
  • There was, incidentally, something I noticed about these veteran couples at the Cottages—something Ruth, for all her close study of them, failed to spot—and this was how so many of their mannerisms were copied from the television.†   (source)
  • None of us, incidentally, was particularly bothered about it; in fact, I remember some people being pleased we could have sex without worrying about all of that—though proper sex was still some way off for most of us at that stage.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, can Squibs see Dementors?' he added, looking left and right along the bench.†   (source)
  • Yes, indeed ...and incidentally ...I'm guessing you werent Just taking that egg for a walk tonight?†   (source)
  • "And incidentally," said Hermione, after a few moments, "you need to be careful."†   (source)
  • "Incidental?" asked Strigan, disbelieving.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, young Prozanski escaped from the Umschlagplatz and thus survived a little longer.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, my dad did have a serious talk with the boy's parents.†   (source)
  • Presently, the Baron said: "Incidentally, you will make my own supply one of your first concerns.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, Sam took Patrick to the dance after Craig said he was too busy.†   (source)
  • That did not prevent them from forming a police jazz band which, incidentally, was excellent.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, I got a perfect on my math final last week.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, I have thought of my second gift for Patrick.†   (source)
  • Ruth, incidentally, was only the third or fourth donor I got to choose.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, I have not told you about Bill in a while.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, the book Bill gave me was Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie.†   (source)
  • Oh, incidentally, my sister asked for her "Autumn Leaves" mix tape back.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, the book is To Kill a Mockingbird.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, my dad is a very good husband.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, Sam has brown hair and very very pretty green eyes.†   (source)
  • Who is, incidentally, a Jace I like much better than the old one.†   (source)
  • "For incidentals," Lola had said as she pressed it into my hand.†   (source)
  • Only they said the woman was incidental, the driver was the target.†   (source)
  • Which, incidentally, cost three hundred dollars a pair.†   (source)
  • That the shooting took place on the subway seems incidental.†   (source)
  • After a moment Peters said, "You heard about that woman, incidentally?"†   (source)
  • Incidentally, you have a two-bedroom suite at the Metropole on the Marx Prospekt.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, Major, you'd better hurry up with these details and clear out before he gets here.†   (source)
  • I should say, incidentally, that I am not so foolish as to be unprepared for disappointment.†   (source)
  • And furthermore, I will not consider-incidentally, why don't you sit down?†   (source)
  • It's a painful exercise in incidental recollection.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, the doctor tells me Lin Wenzu will pull through.†   (source)
  • It would be my opinion the women are incidental.†   (source)
  • When Dresden was destroyed later on, incidentally, Lazzaro did not exult.†   (source)
  • The Negroes were—" Incidental to the issue in this war ...to your own private war.†   (source)
  • You're going to burn your fingers, incidentally, if you don't put out that goddam cigarette.†   (source)
  • Not that I would mind the incidental contact.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, we don't trust the bookkeeper.†   (source)
  • And if I were you, incidentally, I'd go look in there for a second.†   (source)
  • Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, give our people the name and address of your physician in the United States.†   (source)
  • That is my own way of having a good time, which, incidentally, you are not having, are you, Dagny?†   (source)
  • God keeps an apartment in New York, incidentally, because this is a swinging town.†   (source)
  • On your backl Incidentally, you can shout as loud as you want, no one will understand you.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, I should before now have explained myself as regards my referring to 'Miss Kenton'.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, do you happen to know why he was busted to private and is only a corporal now?†   (source)
  • Incidentally, Alex, a "I've got it-Peter.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, that's a beaut; it's very sinister, very ominous.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, I've moved to an office down the hall.†   (source)
  • Incidentally I'll kill you if there's a receiving line at this thing.†   (source)
  • "incidentally," he said, "this is not my first trip.†   (source)
  • And that's what this crisis is all about, incidentally.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, she got in several hours ago.†   (source)
  • He never understood its importance to himselfwhich, incidentally, is what destroyed him.†   (source)
  • 'Incidentally, who did make those arrangements?†   (source)
  • Incidentally, somebody around here's been shaving their armpits or their goddam legs with my razor.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, I'm in the same suite at the Ritz that you were in when I came to see you.†   (source)
  • These people have a name, incidentally, that totally defines their existence.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, those were London's words.'†   (source)
  • Why are you breaking down, incidentally?†   (source)
  • Incidentally-this is not my question-who was the third?†   (source)
  • ...Incidentally, I've doubled the patrols on the road and the beach.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, Washburn's passport wasn't even U.S. It was British.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, you just put a new razor blade in yesterday.†   (source)
  • ...Incidentally, the man with the boat, he won't be dealt with too harshly, will he?†   (source)
  • Incidentally, we'll be followed, you know that, don't you?'†   (source)
  • Incidentally, what would you have done if I'd said I couldn't deliver your rails sooner?†   (source)
  • Incidentally, do you know where that sign comes from?†   (source)
  • Incidentally, to jog your memory, I'm the only one who talked to David before he came over here.†   (source)
  • In case of an American attack, incidentally.†   (source)
  • Incidentally she sent her regards to you, so you can relax about that Friday night.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, how far are those islands from here?†   (source)
  • Which, incidentally, he won't have much longer.†   (source)
  • Then I'll get the headwaiter and call off the spirits of ammonia—and, incidentally, pay the check.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, why is he to stay out of Macao?†   (source)
  • Incidentally, I don't expect to lose this money.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, you ingrate, you'll find your weapons in your bedside table drawers.†   (source)
  • I proved that, too, over the last twenty-odd years, incidentally.†   (source)
  • The Coeur du Soldat is part of that question, incidentally.†   (source)
  • Yours is far more personal than mine, incidentally.†   (source)
  • The wanderings to the bedrooms, the payments, were so soft and casual they seemed incidental.†   (source)
  • Morris Fink, incidentally, had not been the culprit†   (source)
  • Which, incidentally, is ridiculous.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, some vandal has added that butt hinges function well because they are powered by farts.†   (source)
  • Which is part of the brain, incidentally-if you stare into a person's pupil, you can see the terminal of the brain.†   (source)
  • Right you are, Professor — just giving a bit of background information — the Firebolt, incidentally, has a built-in auto-brake and —†   (source)
  • From her perch atop her bed-a bed, incidentally, that she shared with no oneRosetta sat regally on a throne of bed pillows, legs crossed Buddha fashion, while drinking ice water, listening to her favorite public radio station, WBAI, and giving commands all day.†   (source)
  • Nothing incidental.†   (source)
  • The Shaba Province, incidentally, roars with waterfalls, more than enough to generate its own electricity.†   (source)
  • And incidentally," said Snape, standing back to allow Harry to pass him, "I was interested to see your new Patronus."†   (source)
  • The incidental clutter was astounding to me, after the order of Professorji's apartment: chair frames without seats, wet towels on the floor, magazines and newspapers stuffed into a wicker clothes hamper, cardboard containers from a takeout place on the window ledge.†   (source)
  • There were rumors that Joe had squandered the money from the construction loan for the Lafayette, that he had chartered a private plane and taken a dozen friends to New Orleans to select a chandelier for the lobby and, incidentally, attend the Sugar Bowl game.†   (source)
  • I have wondered, incidentally: does Our Father have his Bibles so entirely in mind that he can select an instructive verse and calculate backward to the one-hundredth previous?†   (source)
  • "What kind of blood was that, incidentally?" asked Dumbledore loudly over the chiming of the newly unsmashed grandfather flock.†   (source)
  • They reminded me of the groups of black men called gandy dancers in the Old South, who would come along the railroad track chanting, nodding, stepping forward and back in unison, banging out a rhythm with their steel rods, captivating children and moving on before you realized they had also, incidentally, repaired the track.†   (source)
  • 'He was deeply impressed, of course, deeply impressed ...I was staying at the Hog's Head, which I do not advise, incidentally — bed bugs, dear boy — but funds were low.†   (source)
  • Incidentally, we have decided, in the interests of Buckbeak's safety, to rechristen him 'Witherwings' for the time being, though I doubt that the Ministry would ever guess he is the hippogriff they once sentenced to death.†   (source)
  • Said Mrs. Augusta Longbottom, "My grandson, Neville — a good friend of Harry Potter's, incidentally, who fought the Death Eaters alongside him at the Ministry in June and — But the rest of this story was obscured by the large birdcage.†   (source)
  • It is Voldemort's fault that you were able to see into his thoughts, his ambitions, that you even understand the snakelike language in which he gives orders, and yet, Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort's world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have never been seduced by the Dark Arts, never, even for a second, shown the slightest desire to become one of Voldemort's followers!†   (source)
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