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
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
To our expressed disgust for the open sewers and filth he replied that that was beside the question, for, as he said, we must sooner or later take care of the filth anyway.
From Bill's School and Mine A Collection of Essays on Education by Franklin, William Suddards
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)
