All 13 Uses
irrelevant
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
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- Irrelevant to the careening of the car, the whirling lights.†
Chpt 2 *irrelevant = not relevant (not related to the subject being considered, or not important enough to want to consider)
- Irrelevant questions, forms, I don't know what.†
Chpt 3
- It was not possible, but that was irrelevant.†
Chpt 5
- Put case: If a Don Cossack had exclusive possession of his horse in the sense that he alone was responsible for its care and feeding, it would be irrelevant to him who happened to carry the ownership papers.†
Chpt 7
- It would be impolite, grotesque, and above all, irrelevant.†
Chpt 7
- I mean your laws are irrelevant, stupid, inhuman.†
Chpt 7
- Interesting and valuable questions, perhaps, but irrelevant if your concern is with whether a thing makes sense.†
Chpt 11
- How the annihilation is accomplished is an irrelevant detail, a matter of aesthetics.†
Chpt 11
- The people at the heart of the crowd were college age or a little older, and more of them than he would have expected were women, loud, belligerent girls of a kind he had never known existed: they had the pretty faces of the girls who waited on him in restaurants or sat reading quietly on buses, and they had the sweet voices of the girls he heard singing on the television with Mitch Miller and the rest, but tonight their pretty faces were full of authority and dire intent, and the sweetness of their voices was irrelevant to their calls and shouts.†
Chpt 17
- And then he was remembering a song Ben would sing—irrelevant, surely.†
Chpt 18
- Abruptly and irrelevantly Clumly said, "You don't approve of shock treatments, then?"†
Chpt 19irrelevantly = in a manner that is not relevant (not related to the subject being considered, or not important enough to want to consider)
- True and irrelevant, though he believed it.†
Chpt 20irrelevant = not relevant (not related to the subject being considered, or not important enough to want to consider)
- He got up outside himself to where he could act as though he himself, his own life, were irrelevant.†
Chpt 22
Definitions:
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(1)
(irrelevant) not relevant (not related to the subject being considered, or not important enough to want to consider)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)