peripheral

For one, the great Indian bustard has good peripheral vision but poor frontal vision, making it difficult for them to spot power lines until they fly too close to them.

“He got stuck in the minutiae and sucked into these peripheral things,” said the person, who declined to be named.

As the husband of my best friend, he was no stranger, but he was usually peripheral.

The Tony Award-winning theater actor — parts in “Into the Woods,” “Waitress,” “Thoroughly Modern Millie” and “Hello, Dolly!” were among his starring roles — died Monday of an aggressive form of cancer known as metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma, which he was diagnosed with in July.

As the husband of my best friend, he was no stranger, but he was usually peripheral.