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
I did not doubt the truth of the Christian religion; I neither affirmed nor denied; it was something, to me, beside the question.
From Spiritual Adventures by Symons, Arthur
Though, there again, that all comes of letting a trade work mysteriously under the thumb of a benighted oligarchy . . which is beside the question.
From Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste by Granville-Barker, Harley
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)
