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  • "Don't bring up irrelevant matters.†   (source)
  • The news was interesting, but it had become increasingly irrelevant to our immediate situation.†   (source)
  • That doesn't mean the strength of your résumé or interview performance is irrelevant.†   (source)
  • But his uncle looked at him and exclaimed: "After fifty-six years in this country, I'm told that a Jew isn't a German citizen anymore, that I'm politically irrelevant and inferior.†   (source)
  • Our birth names were irrelevant, as were our past acquaintances and past accomplishments and past failures.†   (source)
  • An entire childhood memorialized in four nearly irrelevant photographs.†   (source)
  • Both irrelevant.†   (source)
  • But equally, without exception, so that no one felt shut out by some irrelevant mischance of birth.†   (source)
  • Instead. the prosecutor brought Myers back up to repeat his accusations as if the logic and contradictions in the testimony were completely irrelevant, as if repeating his lies enough times in this quiet room would make them true.†   (source)
  • If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elephant, and a scarlet unicorn astride which was the King of England in his Royal Robes, I do believe that it is you and you alone that people would stare at, dismissing the others as minor irrelevancies.†   (source)
  • That made him biologically irrelevant.†   (source)
  • Because no jury is going to believe a street hustler, and anyway what he has to say is irrelevant.†   (source)
  • That our misery, confinement, and pain were irrelevant to their lives was simply incomprehensible.†   (source)
  • She cared about what we did or failed to do—our homework, our chores, our share of the cooking and cleaning—and expected our feelings about these doings to rise and fall according to some sort of childhood barometer, irrelevant to her, having to do with "phases."†   (source)
  • I read through pages and pages of his old entries, all of them about irrelevant, mundane things.†   (source)
  • Any words would serve, the more irrelevant and superficial the better, any words which would stop him; I didn't want to see this.†   (source)
  • One could drown in irrelevance.†   (source)
  • With the reduced load of only supporting one human instead of six, a 14 percent energy production loss is irrelevant.†   (source)
  • But it seemed that to Dumbledore, the fact that their families lay side by side in the same graveyard had been an unimportant coincidence, irrelevant, perhaps, to the job he wanted Harry to do.†   (source)
  • The first twenty-three years of my life are the ones that shaped me, and the fact that I've lived almost seven decades since then is irrelevant.†   (source)
  • This silk dress is not warm enough for New England, she thought irrelevantly.†   (source)
  • What dismays him most is the irrelevance of it all.†   (source)
  • "Irrelevant," Eleanor answered.†   (source)
  • It had been a decade or so since I'd eaten pork, but suddenly that seemed irrelevant.†   (source)
  • But how could I explain to him, in the chain of disorder and senselessness that had followed her death, exactly how irrelevant those old wishes were?†   (source)
  • The excuses seem irrelevant: As I'm speaking I realize there's only a single thing that really matters.†   (source)
  • His aborted medical training was almost irrelevant.†   (source)
  • An irrelevance.†   (source)
  • But irrelevant to the overall scheme.†   (source)
  • He paid keen attention to many things Eragon considered irrelevant, such as his mother, Selena, and seemed to linger on purpose so as to prolong the suffering.†   (source)
  • But to us on the ground, all of this was irrelevant.†   (source)
  • Some notions of time are irrelevant.†   (source)
  • What the Cantos lacked in sales it made up for in negative reviews: "Indecipherable… archaic… irrelevant to all current concerns," said the Times Book Section.†   (source)
  • Jessica, Mike, the dance, the school — they all seemed strangely irrelevant at the moment.†   (source)
  • They're good for dramatic effect but practically irrelevant.†   (source)
  • The ultimate disposition of the material was irrelevant, a recreation.†   (source)
  • All of these questions and concerns were irrelevant now, because it was dark, no one could see her, and no one would ever know she was here.†   (source)
  • "What I'm open to is irrelevant at the moment.†   (source)
  • Absolute occurrence is irrelevant.†   (source)
  • He devoted himself to the common problem of sifting through vast amounts of irrelevant detail in order to find significant gems of information.†   (source)
  • And the defendant's intentions are irrelevant — a British libel case can be lost because of a truly innocent mistake.†   (source)
  • NW: Whether I approve or not is irrelevant.†   (source)
  • "A, B, C, D, X, Y, Z," somebody else said, irrelevantly.†   (source)
  • She wished, irrelevantly, that it would rain.†   (source)
  • In any case, such organizations were a complete irrelevance to the heart of political life in this country.†   (source)
  • Urging students not to invest time on irrelevant details, I'd tell them: "It doesn't matter how well you polish the underside of the banister."†   (source)
  • My father had consistently looked for facts, which were irrelevant to people like Hegbert.†   (source)
  • No matter how small or irrelevant it might seem, please let us know.†   (source)
  • Irrelevancy….†   (source)
  • To Nathaniel, as well, the past is irrelevant.†   (source)
  • Regardless of the reputation of the critics or their popularity, power, or how much they think they know, their opinions become irrelevant.†   (source)
  • The fact that he was insulting people was irrelevant to the truth or falsehood of what he was saying and he couldn't ethically be struck down for this.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Shigemura taught her to seek union with the Greater Life and to imagine herself as a leaf on a great tree: The prospect of death in autumn, she said, was irrelevant next to its happy recognition of its participation in the life of the tree itself.†   (source)
  • Kierkegaard idicated that the sort of 'objective truths' that Hegelianism was concerned with were totally irrelevant to the personal life of the individual.†   (source)
  • That they themselves were black, or that their own father had similarly relaxed habits was irrelevant.†   (source)
  • Sometimes completely irrelevant.†   (source)
  • Nearby is another building with an irrelevant sign, this one in flaking gold on a dirty window-Holcomb bank.†   (source)
  • Granted, Peter was the one who brought in the gun" 'That's irrelevant,' Jordan said.†   (source)
  • The fact that Mehdi was deformed and retarded was irrelevant; they had to fulfill their nasr.†   (source)
  • She sipped her drink again, saying, irrelevantly, "I wish I could get drunk."†   (source)
  • With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant.†   (source)
  • Whatever extra persuasive muscle was found in the high-fear booklet was clearly irrelevant.†   (source)
  • "Games are irrelevant!" yelled Victoria.†   (source)
  • You can't blame parents for trying to do something—anything—to help their child succeed, even if it's something as irrelevant as giving him a high-end first name.†   (source)
  • July regarded the remark as irrelevant, for Roscoe knew well enough that the town had been without a dentist since Benny's death.†   (source)
  • In which well-founded categories began to seem irrelevant.†   (source)
  • The whole debate about what we should call the problem is irrelevant.†   (source)
  • And those opium profits, funneled back to the warlords, as they were called in the West, or commandhans, as they were known in Afghanistan, enabled them to recruit and equip formidable private militias, making the feeble central government of Hamid Karzai increasingly irrelevant the farther you traveled from Kabul.†   (source)
  • The reporter Mary Elson grasped none of this and wrote in the Chicago Tribune that John's pole comment was "an oddly irrelevant afterthought."†   (source)
  • Irrelevant.†   (source)
  • He believed this was irrelevant.†   (source)
  • It was the only time anyone ever mentioned Alba's origin within the family, because, as Clara noted, the issue was irrelevant since Jean de Satigny had disappeared from their life.†   (source)
  • Whose grandson I was seemed irrelevant.†   (source)
  • One woman prefers cheese at the end of the meal, another loathes cauliflower, and although each may demonstrate her originality thereby, it is an originality that demonstrates its own irrelevance and warns us to pay it no heed, to expect nothing of value to come of it.†   (source)
  • Normally, this was enough to push everything away, at least temporarily, the sudden and indisputable closeness that made all other distance irrelevant.†   (source)
  • Magazines are irrelevant in my new life.†   (source)
  • I never knew my father, and so I thought he was irrelevant to me.†   (source)
  • The fact that she'd been in a coma when I'd said this, hadn't woken up for another three days, that neither of us had ever mentioned what I'd said—that seemed almost irrelevant.†   (source)
  • But if the jury rejects the handwritten will, then Ancil himself becomes irrelevant because he's not mentioned in the prior will.†   (source)
  • That is irrelevant!†   (source)
  • My blindness and deafness were irrelevant.†   (source)
  • It was astonishing to him how people could spend so much time on irrelevancies.†   (source)
  • It was irrelevant that they lived in a city where the corpses in the morgue had bar codes on their toes, to keep up with them.†   (source)
  • "Stress is irrelevant," Conklin broke in.†   (source)
  • She had asked him what sort of apartments he had to offer; the information that it cost money was irrelevant.†   (source)
  • In others they were now considered irrelevant.†   (source)
  • She heard herself doing it again, hammering away at irrelevant detail as she had just now with Robert.†   (source)
  • If man's the irrelevance that interests you, stick with him!†   (source)
  • We can seize the megaron without meaning to hold it because once the queen is gone, the megaron is irrelevant.†   (source)
  • Jesper's irrelevant," said Petra, dismissing the man with a wave.†   (source)
  • You learned what to look out for, and after a while you learned to ignore the irrelevant.†   (source)
  • One derogatory nickname for Johnson is "Uncle Cornpone," as if he were some irrelevant hick instead of the man who got Kennedy elected in 1960 by carrying the Deep South.†   (source)
  • They continue to argue, completely ignoring us as if any danger we might pose is so irrelevant compared to what they're dealing with that it's not worth their energy to notice us.†   (source)
  • She had turned to go, when he spoke again-and what he said seemed bewilderingly irrelevant.†   (source)
  • It is irrelevant to discuss what Mr. Pignetti might have stolen.†   (source)
  • Eyes squeezed tight, Kaeleigh and I are not irrelevant.†   (source)
  • I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant.†   (source)
  • He thinks they are irrelevant.†   (source)
  • So it's irrelevant."†   (source)
  • That his father was successful was irrelevant.†   (source)
  • God, he is wandering tonight, his mind dealing in irrelevance.†   (source)
  • "I'm asking you to ignore an unreliable and irrelevant witness who will do nothing but muddy the water and give Dillard more ammunition when we go to trial.†   (source)
  • It's irrelevant whether he did.†   (source)
  • If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.†   (source)
  • Nudging through the metal some desire absolutely irrelevant to filling its belly or propagating its own kind.†   (source)
  • …bite to the smog the more inland somnolence of San Narciso did lack, lurked the sea. the unimaginable Pacific, the one to which all surfers, beach pads, sewage disposal schemes, tourist incursions, sunned homosexuality, chartered fishing are irrelevant, the hole left by the moon's tearing-free and monument to her exile; you could not hear or even smell this but it was there, something tidal began to reach feelers in past eyes and eardrums, perhaps to arouse fractions of brain current…†   (source)
  • But the fierce strait-jacketed tension remained in the muscles of the cheek and neck and also the sweat poured forth: it stood out on his brow in droplets, matching in appearance—I noted irrelevantly—the mosaic of cool dewdrops on the bottle of Chablis.†   (source)
  • BRADY Irrelevant, immaterial, inadmissible.†   (source)
  • At this vital moment the man's part is as irrelevant as if he had never had anything to do with it, as though the whole thing had dropped from heaven.†   (source)
  • For a little while after their prayer, in relief, Mary had talked quite volubly of matters largely irrelevant to the event; she had even made little jokes and had even laughed at them, without more than a small undertone of hysteria; and in all this, Hannah had thought it best (and, for that matter, the only thing possible), to follow suit; but that soon faded away; nor was it to return; now they merely sat in quietness, each on her side of the kitchen table, their eyes cast away from…†   (source)
  • I'm so sorry that we never got that garden seat," she said irrelevantly.†   (source)
  • Some of this may appear irrelevant to this trial.†   (source)
  • She would suddenly break into one of Dick's slow, patient explanations about a plow or a sick ox, with an irrelevant remark about the food (which Tony found nauseating) or about the heat at this time of the year.†   (source)
  • I've heard it said that Daisy's murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.   (source)
    irrelevant = not relevant (not related to the subject being considered, or not important enough to want to consider)
  • Whether or not it was true seemed irrelevant in the face of this situation.†   (source)
  • He'd memorize the contents of the room so perfectly that his blindness became irrelevant.†   (source)
  • Freedom Plaza, although nearby, seemed totally irrelevant.†   (source)
  • … human personalities as cybrids on this re-created world… AIs killing Als… irrelevant!†   (source)
  • Does all of that get pushed aside, become suddenly irrelevant, in the face of distress at sea?†   (source)
  • Time, as I said before, became irrelevant.†   (source)
  • Value, the leading edge of reality, is no longer an irrelevant offshoot of structure.†   (source)
  • Just more about the look and feel of things, and some irrelevant memories.†   (source)
  • Mar …. the Maartens girl is irrelevant.†   (source)
  • It is… something they consider irrelevant to humanity.†   (source)
  • And although it was irrelevant, Tamar realized then that Dart had lost a lot of weight.†   (source)
  • The advance of Lola's dominion was merciless and made self-pity irrelevant.†   (source)
  • Until that time, everything was shadowy irrelevance and he was afraid of nothing.†   (source)
  • "Yes, but that is irrelevant to the function of AI consciousness," said Johnny.†   (source)
  • 'His name was Conklin, but it's irrelevant, Jack.†   (source)
  • By the time you published them they were irrelevant.†   (source)
  • Fru Giannini, you joke about this, but your sexual experiences are irrelevant in this case.†   (source)
  • He wanted to say that all this talk of feelings was irrelevant.†   (source)
  • Personal feelings were irrelevant in a situation as dire as theirs.†   (source)
  • Then the assassin's shots rang out on Sveavägen and the matter became irrelevant.†   (source)
  • In any case, at that juncture, if it happens, it's probably going to be irrelevant.†   (source)
  • He pointed his pencil at her and said, "I told you, it's irrelevant."†   (source)
  • Her words, when she looked at him again, astonished him as completely irrelevant.†   (source)
  • The fact that she had struck no blow was irrelevant.†   (source)
  • No one answered, and he assumed the question was irrelevant.†   (source)
  • In poor countries, the law is often irrelevant, particularly outside the capital.†   (source)
  • Once hostilities began, Van Riper was careful not to overload his team with irrelevant information.†   (source)
  • At best, they appeared lax to the point of being informal, if not irrelevant.†   (source)
  • Perhaps—no, certainly—they were irrelevant.†   (source)
  • And please don't ask how much it all cost, because that's irrelevant.†   (source)
  • Irrelevant and a complete waste of time.†   (source)
  • This is irrelevant and a complete waste of the court's time.†   (source)
  • Amid the steady wind their voices were distant and, to Alan, irrelevant.†   (source)
  • I did not know earlier what I learned later, by which time it was irrelevant.†   (source)
  • 'I have no time for the anxious if somewhat irrelevant "Eagle", but I don't wish to offend him.†   (source)
  • I did not intend to discuss any …. irrelevant subject.†   (source)
  • Let's say it's a possible, but it's also irrelevant.†   (source)
  • They thought he was a nothing, an irrelevant man.†   (source)
  • She looked at him without astonishment; she did not find the words irrelevant.†   (source)
  • Whether either interrogator believed him or not was, as he expected, irrelevant.†   (source)
  • She glanced at him: the statement was so oddly perceptive and so incongruously irrelevant.†   (source)
  • It's not only clear, it's irrelevant and unnecessary.†   (source)
  • The assassination was beside the point, it was irrelevant to him!†   (source)
  • 'But that's irrelevant,' continued the undersecretary quickly.†   (source)
  • My approval or disapproval would be irrelevant.†   (source)
  • The two men glanced at each other, as if such a question were irrelevant in this place.†   (source)
  • Irrelevant to the careening of the car, the whirling lights.†   (source)
  • But even if it is true, as far as the African people are concerned it is irrelevant.†   (source)
  • All that had been said seemed to him to be irrelevant and amateurish.†   (source)
  • "I just can't see," Rod answered irrelevantly, "how I could be so wrong.†   (source)
  • Mount Brady will erupt again by nightfall, Spouting lukewarm fire and irrelevant ashes.†   (source)
  • It was not possible, but that was irrelevant.†   (source)
  • I mean your laws are irrelevant, stupid, inhuman.†   (source)
  • It would be impolite, grotesque, and above all, irrelevant.†   (source)
  • True and irrelevant, though he believed it.†   (source)
  • Irrelevant questions, forms, I don't know what.†   (source)
  • And then he was remembering a song Ben would sing--irrelevant, surely.†   (source)
  • How the annihilation is accomplished is an irrelevant detail, a matter of aesthetics.†   (source)
  • He got up outside himself to where he could act as though he himself, his own life, were irrelevant.†   (source)
  • Abruptly and irrelevantly Clumly said, "You don't approve of shock treatments, then?"†   (source)
  • Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of a dozen minor and irrelevant markers.†   (source)
  • He would often say it when he felt Kathy was focusing on irrelevant details while ignoring the crux of a problem.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, the scurrying in the rafters and the creaking in the building became irrelevant—I felt a perverted euphoria.†   (source)
  • "The lab is irrelevant," Vittoria said.†   (source)
  • Our models were an irrelevance, a technical necessity for bringing us into the world, nothing more than that.†   (source)
  • That's irrelevant.†   (source)
  • "That's irrelevant."†   (source)
  • To be honest, science seems irrelevant.†   (source)
  • …balances here-once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here-once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel-once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a…†   (source)
  • That's irrelevant.†   (source)
  • "That is irrelevant," Jane insisted.†   (source)
  • And so the eight months are put behind them, quickly shed, quickly forgotten, like clothes worn for a special occasion, or for a season that has passed, suddenly cumbersome, irrelevant to their lives.†   (source)
  • I hope that ten years from now this book really is irrelevant — and that the world it describes, so full of greed and lacking in compassion, is just a bad memory.†   (source)
  • Sartre uses just such a cafe visit to demonstrate the way we 'annihilate' whatever is irrelevant for us.†   (source)
  • It was only after the plates had been taken away, in the edgy lull after the meal was finished but no one was getting up to leave, that it crashed down on me where all their seemingly irrelevant questions about my father and my Decker grandparents (in Maryland, I couldn't remember the town, some semi-rural subdivision behind a Home Depot) and my nonexistent aunts and uncles had so plainly been leading.†   (source)
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