All 5 Uses of
irrelevant
in
Atonement, by Ian McEwan
- The advance of Lola's dominion was merciless and made self-pity irrelevant.†
Chpt 1irrelevant = not relevant (not related to the subject being considered, or not important enough to want to consider)
- One could drown in irrelevance.†
Chpt 1 *irrelevance = the state or degree of not being relevant (not related to the subject being considered, or not important enough to want to consider)
- Until that time, everything was shadowy irrelevance and he was afraid of nothing.†
Chpt 1
- She knew it was self-pity, this mellow expansiveness as she contemplated what looked like her own ruin: Briony would surely go off to her sister's college, Girton, and she, Emily, would grow stiffer in the limbs and more irrelevant by the day; age and weariness would return Jack to her, and nothing would be said, or needed to be said.†
Chpt 1irrelevant = not relevant (not related to the subject being considered, or not important enough to want to consider)
- Just more about the look and feel of things, and some irrelevant memories.†
Chpt 3