beside the question
Example Sentences
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Whether Lebanon is beyond repair is beside the question; I don’t think we’ve seen the worst of it just yet.
From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2020
No one is to speak impertinently or beside the question, superfluously or tediously.
From Slate • Jan. 6, 2011
"Is not all this beside the question?" interposed the lawyer.
From Thurston of Orchard Valley by Dunton, W. Herbert
God knows I have my own battle to fight, my own self to overcome, but that is beside the question.
From Ringfield A Novel by Harrison, S. Frances (Susie Frances)
Accidentally of course a poet’s work may tend towards some moral or actual result; that is beside the question.
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
