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
Talk of the ethical and educational attributes claimed for the church is wholly beside the question.
From Exempting the Churches An Argument for the Abolition of This Unjust and Unconstitutional Practice by James F. Morton. Jr.
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
But all that is beside the question, and recrimination is as bad as sentiment for clouding cold reason.
From A Prince of Good Fellows by Barr, Robert
