All 12 Uses of
incidental
in
Atlas Shrugged
- Incidentally, what would you have done if I'd said I couldn't deliver your rails sooner?†
Chpt 1.4incidentally = of something that comes with something else, but is less important than it
- ....Incidentally, if you've been following my publicity, have you noticed a funny little discrepancy in the story of Mrs. Gilbert Vail?†
Chpt 1.5 *
- That is my own way of having a good time, which, incidentally, you are not having, are you, Dagny?†
Chpt 1.6
- "incidentally," he said, "this is not my first trip.†
Chpt 1.7
- Incidentally, I don't expect to lose this money.†
Chpt 1.7
- Incidentally-this is not my question-who was the third?†
Chpt 1.10
- And furthermore, I will not consider-incidentally, why don't you sit down?†
Chpt 2.3
- If there is, then, some working capital in the right hands-in the hands of our best, our most productive men-it will save years for the rest of us and, incidentally, centuries for the history of the country.†
Chpt 2.7
- Incidentally, do you know where that sign comes from?†
Chpt 2.10
- He never understood its importance to himselfwhich, incidentally, is what destroyed him.†
Chpt 3.2
- Incidentally, He's flying your plane.†
Chpt 3.10
- Which, incidentally, he won't have much longer.†
Chpt 3.10
Definition:
something that comes with something else, but is less important than it
sometimes in a specialized sense, including:
- incidental expenses or when in context, just incidentals -- minor expenses not budgeted or not specified
- incidental music -- music in a play, television program, radio program, video game or some other form not primarily musical. (The term is less frequently applied to film music, with such music being referred to instead as the film score or soundtrack.)