The tree didn't move — but that's beside the point.
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Whether or not you believe Carroll is beside the point.
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But the quality of the memes is beside the point.
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Complaining that they won't get jobs is beside the point.
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Whether this is already happening is almost beside the point.
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Sure, there's plenty of Nutella, but that's beside the point.
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That something is mens- or womenswear is beside the point.
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But a vague accusation of hypocrisy is beside the point.
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The details, and the polling, are almost beside the point.
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Trump's ire in this particular instance is beside the point.
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But reality has, to some degree, been beside the point.
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Whether or not this is true is beside the point.
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But, her detractors would argue, that is beside the point.
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The particulars of her madness are ultimately beside the point.
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The economic argument is in many ways beside the point.
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Over and over, he's told efficacy is beside the point.
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In either case, statistical findings are largely beside the point.
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He said the dropouts and critics were beside the point.
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If they even have sound, it's completely beside the point.
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But we have decided such reasoning is beside the point.
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But they are also, in some ways, beside the point.
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But for these voters, that is all beside the point.
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Trump's accusation is transparently meritless, but that's beside the point.
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It's an understandable question, and it's also beside the point.
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And yet, in some ways, women were beside the point.
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By now, the president's direct involvement is beside the point.
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Several things made retirement saving seem almost beside the point.
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That wedding cakes are edible is utterly beside the point.
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For me, honestly, the meat is almost beside the point.
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Who really had it tougher is almost beside the point.
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The men in this movie are really beside the point.
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That this has costs and benefits is almost beside the point.
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The policy is, in a very real sense, beside the point.
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In the end, though, the speeches were almost beside the point.
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Trying to write a hit song suddenly seemed beside the point.
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Whether we agree with him or not is beside the point.
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But in a way, all of that is beside the point.
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However, whether or not she lost weight is beside the point.
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That's almost certainly not true — but it's also beside the point.
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Asking why we should eat this way is beside the point.
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The rights and wrongs of the case are beside the point.
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It also works with expressions of multiple words ("beside the point").
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But differentiating is really beside the point of brain-juicing mocktails.
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They are strictly plot points, or maybe even beside the point.
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Whether art is figurative, representational, or abstract is beside the point.
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Sure, it tastes great, too, but that's almost beside the point.
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For the city's rickshaw-drivers such concerns seem beside the point.
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Certainly that matters, but it seems a bit beside the point.
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Whether or not Twitter's systems were compromised is beside the point.
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And yet, for Derakhshan, Cambridge Analytica is almost beside the point.
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But whether he has clairvoyant powers is almost beside the point.
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Whether a fetus is healthy or ailing is beside the point.
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And my thoughts on the episode almost feel beside the point.
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Or is that question beside the point in the Trump era?
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Whether she believes the Goopshit herself may be beside the point.
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With some books, those types of complaints are beside the point.
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It's a nice idea, but it's kind of beside the point.
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A return on his investment, he said, is beside the point.
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And how much of it is true is beside the point.
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Whether or not these were admirable undertakings is beside the point.
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It's fascinating but also probably beside the point of his adultery.
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That's fine and makes sense, but it's really beside the point.
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Such categories seem beside the point at this moment in time.
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The health care itself is, in a way, beside the point.
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Even the major plot details are mostly beside the point, though.
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But the homicide and mass shooting results are almost beside the point.
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Whether or not it passes is in some ways beside the point.
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It also has an objectively incredible video, but that's beside the point.
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Söderlund found the response to be both ignorant and beside the point.
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But this closed analysis of wins and losses is beside the point.
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But the specifics of Baltimore and social policy are beside the point.
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What that person does upon arrival is pretty much beside the point.
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But the paintings themselves, while somewhat evocative, are almost beside the point.
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Whether Congress passes the plan or not is almost beside the point.
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The extent to which the food is "authentic" is beside the point.
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Yet this dramatic setup ends up being almost entirely beside the point.
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The Spurs' Manu Ginobili said the referees' decisions were beside the point.
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But whatever political ends Trump has in mind are beside the point.
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But Alabama fans, no doubt crimson with ire, are beside the point.
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The sushi was excellent, but that was beside the point, wasn't it?
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Denunciations of his campaign were beside the point of their self-interest.
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The anecdotes are a combination of false, misleading and beside the point.
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"The price of the spoon is beside the point," Ms. Singer said.
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Even when viewers stay awake, straightforward entertainment remains somewhat beside the point.
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Mr. Nicholson's long shot status seems to be almost beside the point.
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For Mr. Trump, the spare joint statement seemed almost beside the point.
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But that's hardly to suggest that food is beside the point here.
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The plot, which includes some malevolent mutants, is mostly beside the point.
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But Ms. Haley said that Iran's compliance was almost beside the point.
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Whether you agree with that statement or not is beside the point.
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He excluded the picture from the "Atlas"; animals are beside the point.
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And perhaps any attempt to single it out is beside the point.
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But an economic evaluation of Ross's claim is ultimately beside the point.
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Striking as they are, she sees them as almost beside the point.
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Listen, it just wasn't going to happen, but that's beside the point.
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Warren Buffett insists the legal argument should have been beside the point.
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That's why, for me, a painting that works is so beside the point.
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This is true, but it is also, in most ways, beside the point.
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At a certain point, the value of the dollar is beside the point.
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But in many ways, the potential reanimation of ISIS is beside the point.
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Whether the ritual worked or not is beside the point, in my opinion.
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For China, this is beside the point: the West should keep its promise.
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Whether or not that's ultimately a smart basketball move is beside the point.
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Like a good businessman, he acts like his feelings are beside the point.
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Whether that was in a "jokey" way or not was beside the point.
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Yet the "political risk" of this tactic ought to be beside the point.
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But the question of individual innocence and guilt is almost beside the point.
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But the conclusions reached by scientists are beside the point for many consumers.
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What Ansari did was not illegal or criminal but that's beside the point.
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And whether women were actually locked in his office is beside the point.
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Ironically, any such emphasis remains essentially beside the point, both legally and strategically.
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It also makes for quite the lovely vinaigrette, but that's beside the point.
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That a great deal of this is legal is quite beside the point.
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They are confusing and — for many voters the Democrats need — beside the point.
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Trump's complaint that Colorado's delegate selection system is undemocratic is beside the point.
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He was vastly successful and famous, which is fine, but beside the point.
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I could go on describing the plot, but it's profoundly beside the point.
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He should have won the Nobel Prize, but that is beside the point.
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The result, despite how Trump clearly views it, is almost beside the point.
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It seems, now, beside the point; we forgave the Black Sox long ago.
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The Lakers fell 127-119 but the outcome felt somewhat beside the point.
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On health care, the past four debates have proved largely beside the point.
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Whether there is an Eye spying in the household is beside the point.
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As Mr. Spicer, meanwhile, Ms. McCarthy makes cross-dressing almost beside the point.
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For Ms. Stone and the filmmakers, such hypothetical scenarios are beside the point.
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They didn't taste like fully ripe berries, but that was beside the point.
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For now, it is beside the point whether he is right or wrong.
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At best, it is beside the point, and at worst is factually incorrect.
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Whether one considered the pair successful on the merits is beside the point.
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It would be the only thing she hears, and it's beside the point.
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The lineup had six white acts, but that was apparently beside the point.
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And for some, Mallory and the national leadership were somewhat beside the point.
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But whether voters vote on this issue next November is, really, beside the point.
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Whether you've actually read them is, for these folks, sort of beside the point.
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Whether the Evija ultimately claims any of these titles is almost beside the point.
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The numbers, and how they compare with other professions, are almost beside the point.
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And I thought the design was grotesque too, but that is beside the point.
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Whether there's a big market for smart clocks is kind of beside the point.
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Whether or not his account has actually been hacked is beside the point, though.
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David McGuire, executive director of the state ACLU, told Gizmodo that's beside the point.
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Whether or not Paul and Mongeau's love is sincere is entirely beside the point.
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No one seemed to care that anyone was ugly, it was beside the point.
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Whether or not these characterizations are true, or fair, is almost beside the point.
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That Trump now has majorities in both chambers of Congress is beside the point.
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The answers are beside the point — that we're asking at all is what's interesting.
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That the legislation is dead on arrival in Trump's Washington is beside the point.
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Whether that's a nuclear button or a hacker's keyboard is almost beside the point.
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Still, advocates say that's beside the point when it comes to federally-funded plans.
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But to a large extent the particulars of the race are beside the point.
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True or not is beside the point: A Bidenite plagiarist is a man a
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The judge indicated he appreciated the offer, but said it was beside the point.
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Which is all beside the point, according to White House press secretary Sarah Sanders.
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To Wong, though, much of the hand-wringing about Clinton is beside the point.
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They'd also probably sell well within certain fetish communities, but that's beside the point.
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The movie itself is almost beside the point; it's the release strategy that's interesting.
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All the discussion about Obama "playing chess" and "being reasonable" is beside the point.
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Was objectivity something you sought, or was that simply beside the point for you?
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To many observers, detailed talk about specific Dodd-Frank provisions is beside the point.
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That doesn't mean they acted charitably, but that may have been beside the point.
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Using that particular piece to raise money is almost beside the point, I think.
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"For us, Farrakhan's opinions on the Jews mostly seemed beside the point," he writes.
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What the books say, the advice they dispense, is a bit beside the point.
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I'm not sure, politically speaking, that's actually true, but it's also beside the point.
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The quality of the hot dog and the burger themselves is beside the point.
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Whether or not she actually does use a body double is beside the point.
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But that may be beside the point, Gleb Pavlovsky, the former Putin adviser, said.
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But gaming out how this will "play" with the electorate is beside the point.
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Now, whatever is going on in Trump's mind is somewhat beside the point here.
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And in several cases apologies have included information that seemed utterly beside the point.
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This does not mean he is always convincing, but that seems beside the point.
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Everybody's doing it but they're not doing it well, but that's beside the point.
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Anything that doesn't address the thorny questions facing the tech industry feels beside the point.
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There's a sense in which seeking meaning in it is futile, or beside the point.
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It seemed to me that that sounded good, but also kind of beside the point.
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Tech is almost beside the point in this show, even though it's all about tech.
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K., this is beside the point, but 'witch hunt' and 'hoax' mean the same thing.
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Once it hit The Washington Post, a few extra Facebook shares were beside the point.
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"Yes, but I think it's beside the point," Conway responded, declining to provide further details.
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Whether or not C.K. himself will ever abuse anyone again is also beside the point.
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That none of them do a thing to stop terrorism is almost beside the point.
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Others say some that all of this talk of earnings is utterly beside the point.
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Figuring out the truth might be impossible here; it may also be beside the point.
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The question of whether anyone in the Kremlin actually believes this is beside the point.
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Whether companies like Amazon and Johnson & Johnson should carry tech labels is beside the point.
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Arsenal's particular style of play "is beside the point for most of us," he wrote.
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All this hand-wringing and crying about reduced tax revenue is really beside the point.
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It has no specificity, rendering any given arena of play or battle beside the point.
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An increase in the deficit, which mainstream economists consider a certainty, is beside the point.
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But that is beside the point; it is up to Congress, not him, to decide.
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Mr. Schumer rejected the request as political and beside the point, and the resolution failed.
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For the Brooklyn native and many of his supporters, his identity is beside the point.
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Still, there is something inane about all of this, as well as beside the point.
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In the subprime market, however, the value of the cars is often beside the point.
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That Sweeney escapes jail time and Thoreau loses his job is almost beside the point.
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But in a society that reveres free speech, that has to be beside the point.
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It's an irreducible tension that's never quite resolved, because resolution would be beside the point.
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But I think that the current criticism of CBS is a little beside the point.
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Obviously, the way Thunberg looks and how others feel about that are beside the point.
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A journey of discovery and change so profound that the destination is beside the point.
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All of that is kind of beside the point — for me it was the context.
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It has a meandering, if amusing, fantastical conspiracy-theory plot that seems beside the point.
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Roosevelt, though, would call that beside the point — and I think Rob Reich would agree.
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That Noah doesn't particularly care for swimming, and that he craves change, seems beside the point.
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Whether the policy is literally identical to what the Nazis did is almost beside the point.
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Debates over their effectiveness are beside the point because, fundamentally, it's not about safety or security.
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The same can be said of Mr. Mahé's music, sonically engaging, but often beside the point.
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Whether the ghost she sees is real is sort of beside the point: her pain is.
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Whether or not these individuals were as mediocre as some critics claim is beside the point.
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This doesn't mean that Gozo's work or that Dada is beside the point, just the opposite.
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The way the rule is actually called is kind of dumb, but that's beside the point.
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The competence and moral uprightness of the party their candidate would lead are beside the point.
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So whether or not Trump "told" Barr to open an investigation is entirely beside the point.
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Possible harm to marine life is "beside the point," spokesperson Heather Stimmler told me via email.
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That it turned out not to be, again, according to Don Jr., is beside the point.
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For those focused on Apple's current legal fight, all of this might seem beside the point.
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But imposing a political agenda on her provocative and honest book might be beside the point.
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It may be academically interesting to debate the bailout, but it is ultimately beside the point.
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Yes, he had been diagnosed with cancer, the son said, but that was beside the point.
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These efforts don't always work to organize on-the-ground protests, but that's beside the point.
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"The idea of softer or harder is really beside the point," Kudlow told Fox Business Network.
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But whether you believe the results of the Lancet trial is sort of beside the point.
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But his qualifications, and even to an extent his personal beliefs, are almost beside the point.
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"What happened in the election is sort of beside the point in some way," she said.
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What you think you're reading is often something else, and the difference is beside the point.
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You might want to hear more about the wedding, too, but honestly, it's beside the point.
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Whether the rest of the puzzle is stylistically perfect or not is almost beside the point.
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Which naturally leads us to a question that's maybe beside the point: Are they any good?
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Whether this man is actually the historical Thoreau, however, seems largely beside the point for Dann.
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The whole notion just sounds so trivial, so material, so sexist, so utterly beside the point.
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Things are clearly bad, but exactly how or why remains unclear — and largely beside the point.
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An examination of his record shows that is not true, but it is also beside the point.
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That it's a man, leading a brand with a cult-like female following is beside the point.
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There aren't a lot of inspiring moments, and the actual educational content is mostly beside the point.
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Whether these kinds of partisan accusations have merit is, in a very important respect, beside the point.
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All of this back and forth among the law professors, while interesting, could be beside the point.
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For some hybristophiles, however, a lack of empathy is beside the point—or, perhaps, the major draw.
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We look at it as "we want our book now" and that's kind of beside the point.
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In the context of Instagram, however, the specific musical texture of each festival is beside the point.
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But as David Cui at Bank of America Merrill Lynch argues, specific estimates are beside the point.
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In this setting, the scientific validity of the MBTI (or lack thereof) was completely beside the point.
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That's beside the point of a larger criminal justice reform effort that seeks to reduce sentence guidelines.
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I thought to name the accurate make, but then it seemed too clunky, and beside the point.
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This is a bad and virtually impossible idea, but listing the reasons why is beside the point.
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The wooden-soled shoe around which our connection is based is even kind of beside the point.
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Hopefully they're both aware Russia got knocked out in the quarter finals, but that's beside the point.
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Whether or not you can rattle off facts about Meret Oppenheim or Fauvism is beside the point.
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For the historians, their credentials are the whole point; for Justice Ginsburg they are beside the point.
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"Proof" may be beside the point — just a veneer of reason over our naked jostling for power.
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Valuations may be beside the point, particularly if tech earnings can continue to grow into their valuations.
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That was the common denominator — skin tone, sexual identity and ZIP code were often beside the point.
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Whether Riley was just gone off the fats and proteins, or actually intoxicated, is beside the point.
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"Whether she was as remarkable as the woman onscreen seems entirely beside the point," Ms. Dargis added.
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The sport itself, in other words, is beside the point, as are the actual benefits of succeeding.
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Drinks are beside the point, but they're cheap enough (seven-dollar draft; five-buck bottled Lone Star).
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But whether you believe in the business or not is almost beside the point for many writers.
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That some of those people who were convicted were affiliated with the Jamaat party is beside the point.
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Whether it is "good," in the two-thumbs-up, Rotten-Tomatoes-score sense, is almost beside the point.
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However, whether or not Jones was directly inspired by the vocabulary of tantric art seems beside the point.
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Asking whether sanctions are the right tool to use is, at this point, beside the point, experts say.
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Samuel L. Jackson has actually tweeted about Kanye but that's beside the point; this tweet specifically is fake.
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Whether the agenda was to sop up the clothes or get drunk on fashion was beside the point.
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But after Facebook's painful fall from grace, the legal and the cybersecurity arguments seem almost beside the point.
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Whether that's actually true, or whether Midge is a "bad" or "good" mom, is ultimately beside the point.
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More than anything, this phone is Apple's acknowledgement that how an iPhone looks is increasingly beside the point.
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They will serve some beers and wines, and can stir a proper martini, but that's beside the point.
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You could say that he is learning a way of drawing in which mastery is beside the point.
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The precise workings of the technology in these watches, is — to a very real degree — beside the point.
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Whether they actually can or not is completely beside the point (I'm looking at you, Cleveland Browns fans).
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Many residents of Juba say the politics behind the recent bloodshed are perplexing and, ultimately, beside the point.
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"Keeping up with the Joneses" is beside the point and a terrible compass for doing the right thing.
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The issue of abstraction and representation seemed beside the point to her, and her work straddled both possibilities.
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As for taking a shot at Obama's carbon rule and the Paris climate deal, that's beside the point.
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They might bypass him on the game's deciding play all over again, but that is beside the point.
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They may or may not provide such benefits, short term or long term, but that's beside the point.
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The wisdom of those deals is beside the point; the Cardinals, known for winning, kept coming in second.
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That Britain's left may be more or less anti-Semitic than Britain's right is entirely beside the point.
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In an era of C.G.I. and android pop stars, the truth behind art is almost beside the point.
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Of course these folks would likely argue that nobody's income should be taxed, but that's beside the point.
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Scientists may disagree about the timeline of collapse, but many argue that this is entirely beside the point.
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Mr. Levine argues that the stadium now generates sales tax, which is true but is beside the point.
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But it brought together a rewarding collection of performers whose gear, in the end, was beside the point.
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It's unclear if anyone necessarily learned what anxiety was from Paul's commentary, but maybe that's beside the point.
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This alternative approach does not necessarily predict the outcome of the case, but that is beside the point.
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The 5.223 deal was a rocky one, but, in many ways, its financial success was beside the point.
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For Sanders, all of this talk about how the primaries affects the party's positions is beside the point.
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Since then, both Spotify and Apple Music have continued to grow, and the distinction seems beside the point.
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What motivated the brothers is almost beside the point, because that's not the story the movie is telling.
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Whether or not you look forward to Jude Law's newest HBO show, The Young Pope, is beside the point.
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But that's beside the point—there's a rise in fascism and far-right extremism in countries around the world.
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That is, of course, not how noses, which are made out of cartilage, work, but that's beside the point.
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You could say that Sangram Majumdar is learning a way of drawing in which mastery is beside the point.
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That the whole thing was, wait for it, a totally false conspiracy theory was beside the point for Trump.
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While Hogg volunteered the information during the vetting process for the deputy governorship, this was ultimately beside the point.
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Fees were charged to record vital statistics, and they seemed beside the point if the child had already died.
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It's as if the matter were both too obvious and too beside the point to bother addressing at all.
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During our first Skype chat Chu told me that unearthing the proof in the porn seemed beside the point.
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Whether any lawsuits against the Saudi government are warranted or even legal is in some sense beside the point.
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The food—which at the old spot was good but felt a little beside the point—is undeniably delicious.
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Others dismissed the tape as entirely beside the point, a decade-old distraction with no bearing on the presidency.
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Heroin may be integral to the book, hiding everywhere in plain sight and yet somehow also beside the point.
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Anyway, whether Mr. Trump was aware of any of the specific details in the indictment is beside the point.
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Ms. Barr's message, on the other hand, was racist and hateful, and her word choice was beside the point.
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And it struck her then, not for the first time, that being a woman was not beside the point.
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To Trump, the fact that he repeatedly promised to protect Medicaid while campaigning in 2016 is beside the point.
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Whether or not such a three-way diplomatic deal would ever work in real life is beside the point.
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For children, the questions often asked about poetry's status are so beside the point as to seem almost absurd.
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To the coach, Sarah Murray, who was tearful after the last buzzer sounded, the score was beside the point.
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But such details might be beside the point for a White House initiative that is heavier on politics than science.
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Still, a global target for reducing absolute poverty seems increasingly beside the point, because poverty is less and less global.
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To cook any of these recipes, or to discern whether these athletes' recipes are actually theirs, seems beside the point.
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In a Keynesian world, calls for structural reform are often either misguided or somewhat beside the point; not in Brazil.
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But for some whites — perhaps the ones who account for the increasing death rate — that may be beside the point.
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I just think that's unnecessary and beside the point because you know these things are not science documentaries; they're entertainment.
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She told us that when Trump asked her to take the job, her being a woman was beside the point.
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The distinctness of individual songs is beside the point as the album whirls by in an exhausting, energizing, dizzy spin.
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Their debates about old bills were all beside the point when it comes to where the candidates stand in 2016.
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What's feasible or not, in the current climate, and how to tinker with the equation, is essentially beside the point.
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It is simply a whodunit that recognizes that in real life "exoneration" cases, the whodunit is often beside the point.
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That few people seem to have much ora on hand these days, favoring their credit cards, seems beside the point.
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Others say the lobbying efforts were fruitless, while still others say it's hard to tell, or simply beside the point.
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Aloe says that's beside the point in this case ... because it's the right move to achieve change for the better.
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Details of the conversation that followed have dissipated from my memory, but that both is and is beside the point.
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Sir's claim that my tweets "trivialis[e] literary criticism" may well be be true, but is entirely beside the point.
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It reflected the idea that you can bargain with anyone; the moral character of the adversaries is beside the point.
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Interviews can be gratuitous, and with a cult of personality surrounding many artists, it gets annoyingly beside the point sometimes.
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But while some critics of DAFs like Madoff may believe seeing the data is beside the point, it does matter.
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Nitpicking about whether those forces were specifically involved in the attack on Washington is a little bit beside the point.
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But given the interwoven history and shared emotion underlying his statement, present-day geopolitics can seem almost beside the point.
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"Much of the recent pontificating about the technical elements of obstruction of justice is quite beside the point," he said.
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Ninth, the alleged character or previous conduct of former Vice President Biden is entirely beside the point to this inquiry.
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It was as if there were nothing to forgive in the first place, as if perfection were beside the point.
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As if the movies are some kind of mistake or excess or hopelessly beside the point irrelevant, which they're not.
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One possibility is that, for this presidency, whether anything is actually "accomplished" will end up being entirely beside the point.
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But that is almost beside the point: this collision of streaming, labels, and AI is going to happen to other genres.
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Michael might never have again achieved the level of fame he found in the '80s, but that was beside the point.
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Whether the alliance ultimately pays off is almost beside the point; the alternative was watching Amazon pull further and further ahead.
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But "brave" is beside the point here, and certainly not a pre-req to have the confidence to travel alone. 6.
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Sessions appeared to have no choice, but that detail now seems beside the point for Trump and his most ardent supporters.
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"The Piss Tape is Real" is an utterly undignified utterance, and any of its truth or falsity is beside the point.
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And while I'm not sure how the kid on Earth ended up with the more ridiculous name, that's beside the point.
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If someone chooses to simply reject those scientific institutions, procedures, and results, then piling on more facts is beside the point.
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That there is also a financial cost (thousands of dollars for every day in an I.C.U.) is almost beside the point.
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Deciphering the enigmatic games played in Iris might be beside the point, as the mental journey involved seems to matter more.
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The individual mandate, corporate tax rates and child tax credits — all of those problems might be beside the point for Murkowski.
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But everyone who loves Dylan loves him for his or her own reasons, and enumerating those reasons seems beside the point.
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Second, it's a little ridiculous and completely beside the point to say that Kesha's lawyers hate women because of previous representations.
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But for users, Apple's legal side-step is totally beside the point — they just want to know how the keyboard feels.
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Many observed that these criticisms apply as much to Trump as they do his detractors, but that is beside the point.
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Yet for many fat people, the questions about appropriate medical care are beside the point because they stay away from doctors.
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Following the meandering plot is beside the point once Mosley starts bringing on his familiar characters for Easy to chat up.
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Mike and Fred also freely express their own dissatisfaction with their lives, but, as Alpert shows, happiness is beside the point.
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It just feels beside the point when most of us are sitting in our homes waiting for something catastrophic to happen.
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The fact that penetration is simulated in sex scenes is almost beside the point: Intimate proximity between actors almost never is.
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Legislation may be beside the point as people — especially younger generations — are deciding for themselves that they prefer texting to talking.
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" That may not be enough for the ACLU and Snow, who said that any proof of accuracy was "beside the point.
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In the end, debating whether Sunday's travel ban is fairer or better thought out than its predecessors is beside the point.
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I know they want to bring me in for some flashbacks this coming season, but that's kind of beside the point.
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The music itself, especially when it's just trying to offer something that feels beautiful and pure, can become beside the point.
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That Under Armour doesn't see any cash from the secondary sales is beside the point; they are building something for the future.
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Of course, what "Fuller House" is like on its own is beside the point; it matters only in reference to the original.
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No, although you might find him bowling with fans for money during a timeout, which is also cool, but BESIDE the point.
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Also Mauer is still a really good hitter despite what some Twins fans might tell you, but maybe that's beside the point.
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It's often noted that Trump supporters are wealthier than the working-class they claim to speak for, but that's beside the point.
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But as with so many movies featuring true movie stars, the quality of the film as a whole feels beside the point.
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He was being as clear as he could about what he expected of her; whether she agreed was entirely beside the point.
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The reasoning is unclear, but that's beside the point: Just take a look at the $30 beaded bag or $18 dress ahead.
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People who know about rocketry think this technology may be either unfeasible or not very useful, but that is beside the point.
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Where fact and fiction begin and end with him is hard to figure and, since he's a writer, totally beside the point.
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One could certainly make a claim that those who were persuaded toward the Republican ticket were misled, but that's beside the point.
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Whether or not hotboxing a lobster's enclosure has any effect on its final moments on this earth is almost beside the point.
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I read that as him not leaving at all, not stepping down, stepping down as CEO is sort of beside the point.
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We're just a little confused about the image of a pregnant belly with a ribbon around it, but that's beside the point.
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Although some Flint residents have considered suing the state for some sort of financial retribution, Lankford insists money is beside the point.
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Almost beside the point is whether a meeting actually takes place, much less yields tangible progress toward reconciliation between two hostile populations.
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In light of these views and his inflammatory rhetoric, citing his longtime public support for Hillary Clinton almost seems beside the point.
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With so many competing viewpoints, solidarity within the Resistance is essentially impossible to achieve, and really seems to be beside the point.
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Of course, Warren and supporters can make arguments explaining how the two cases are not similar, but this is beside the point.
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These similarities were superficial and beside the point, arbitrary attempts to impose a structure onto a journey that was just an accident.
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While the White House issued a recent statement that it has no intention of firing Mueller, that is almost beside the point.
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It may not make you like her, but by the end, what we think about her also seems quite beside the point.
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"Didn't you already mourn for your father, young lady?" a heartless creature asks Eurydice, but that of course is beside the point.
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But isn't that thought almost beside the point because what sells this show is the fact that it is Grayson: the Prequel?
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The hoopla over whether or not President Trump would allow the infamous Republican memo to be seen was always beside the point.
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But you couldn't stay hung up on that for long because the wit of the piece renders its chic beside the point.
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For fear of spoilers I must not tell you what specifically befalls him, though it is, in a way, beside the point.
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The body, for all intents and purposes, is beside the point, an accessory that can be swapped out or modified at will.
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If I didn't know the words, that was beside the point; it was as exhilarating as any live concert I'd been to.
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It's a creative thread that runs through both Young and Hannah's works, a reminder that getting it right is beside the point.
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There were still primaries to be held in California, New Jersey, and a handful of Western states, but they were beside the point.
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While we can see an iconographic connection between af Klint's circles and many of Kenneth Noland's paintings, this link seems beside the point.
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"Even though [the debate] consumes a lot of my time and other people's time, it's sort of beside the point," Jacobson told Grist.
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"Whether our Committee or athletes like or dislike Japan's military policy is beside the point," Brundage told the Associated Press in early 1938.
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In an interview with ABC News, Davis disputed Giuliani's characterization of the call and said they method of payment was beside the point.
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That these jokes aren't terribly funny—at least not to the same degree as Trump's own Twitter feed—is almost beside the point.
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This difficulty problem illustrates another point: If you don't understand what truly matters, you might latch onto something that is beside the point.
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The article was widely mocked for being completely beside the point: An extraordinary example of the dynamic I call the perfidy of civility.
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As real people became poorer and lost their jobs, the ones on TV got richer, and their jobs seemed more beside the point.
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But, if he is right, becoming an antiracist might entail a realization that our national conversation about race is largely beside the point.
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We persist in deciding who people authentically are even though we often get it wrong — and even when it's ultimately beside the point.
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Such technicalities may be beside the point: Reporters will be THINKING about those rules and the hassles that come along with violating them.
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But speaking as someone who doesn't watch college basketball, overanalyzing what Young did or didn't do in 32 games is beside the point.
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A trial seems almost beside the point, a view that the writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda goes on to dismantle with lapidary precision.
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It's rather beside the point to note plot goofiness in a Godzilla picture, but this one does push its luck now and then.
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Whether your husband is an addict or simply in a destructive relationship with cocaine that could lead to addiction is beside the point.
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It seems almost beside the point to note that Barr's claim that secularism is responsible for violence happens to be empirically verifiable nonsense.
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This claim is debatable — the Government Accountability Office has concluded that holding up the Ukraine aid violated federal law — and beside the point.
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The crowd sipped wine and soft drinks and milled about the sparsely hung, mildly provocative artwork, which was in fact beside the point.
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That's not to say what's on display here is secondary or mundane; it's just that the individual work is somewhat beside the point.
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Saul's backstory is entirely missing from the film — we don't even learn if he really had a son — but that is beside the point.
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Further, asking the brain to determine validity of God might be beside the point, and not the direction he sees his research going in.
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What was once their crown jewel for Kyrie Irving might now be Zach Collins (who's actually playing pretty well, but that's beside the point).
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Given that Guardians of the Galaxy takes place in a fictional universe that includes talking raccoons, a scientific analysis may be beside the point.
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It is difficult to fathom just how irresponsible and entirely beside the point Puerto Rico's debt is when it comes to its current situation.
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But that, says Harald Beyer, a former minister of education in Chile, is beside the point: competition has improved the municipal schools' performance too.
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Not because they can't respond — but because for almost two years, nearly anything they can think to tweet about feels entirely beside the point.
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But in reality, the success or failure of the company is almost beside the point: this is about extracting profits, and not much else.
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Whether they acted on that bias is beside the point; the indications of bias were sufficient to arouse suspicions of politically motivated decision-making.
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It is hard to say, especially since, when it comes to political dispute, "particular policy beliefs" are often beside the point, the researchers write.
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"What we need to be saying as advocates for survivors is: your virginity—whatever that means to you—is beside the point," Nesbitt said.
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Whether the bonus overpayments were awarded because of bureaucratic incompetence or fraud on the part of those administering the program is beside the point.
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In fairness, that's somewhat beside the point: The question is fundamentally about whether people can be influenced by information they see on social media.
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The fact that I was Asian and an immigrant, and English was not my first language, seemed like facts that were beside the point.
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Or has Whistler become — like Las Vegas or Ibiza — one of those unreal places on the planet where soul-searching is beside the point?
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But in this instance, the merits are kind of beside the point, because on Wednesday, this episode came to a sudden and surprising close.
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And while the book is educational, technically, introducing kids to shapes from a simple square to a nonagon, the lesson is beside the point.
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That's a question we have neither time nor space to answer here, as well as rude and beside the point at this late stage.
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But that's mostly beside the point, because this is such a characteristic moment in a campaign that says whatever it wants to justify its positions.
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President Trump reportedly doesn't want to start a new war, according to a report in the Washington Post, but that may be beside the point.
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While that technical distinction may seem beside the point as you puzzle over his intimate distillations of the urban environment, the difference is not academic.
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A halfway-decent wrestler with five minutes of cardio and good heel hook entries would rip KSW's heavyweight division apart, but that's beside the point.
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But for Steyer, that seems beside the point: he has a conviction and feels a moral responsibility to act on it, whatever the polling indicates.
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For its critics, the charges against community and regional bankers fudging their accounts and defrauding the bailout fund are in some ways beside the point.
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The official spokesperson for the White House said that whether or not videos depicting violence committed by Muslims are actually real is beside the point.
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The implicit promise – that Johnson would not hurl the country into nuclear war – was fairly easy to keep (and rather beside the point if not).
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To ask which film veers from the historical record in its rendering of the life and loves of young Mr. Obama is beside the point.
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By the time a young player living in squalor is forced to make a choice between matchfixing and eating, doesn't integrity feel beside the point?
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If Sturtevant's pieces don't measure up to their models, as some critics have argued, it's beside the point — or, arguably, it is the artist's point.
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Whether that's true or not is, politically, beside the point — it's a huge and growing problem for Clinton that Democrats like Flores think it's true.
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N.C.A.A. Men's Tournament Bracket In bracketology's purest form, the black-and-white details of who actually wins games in the tournament is beside the point.
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In this she resembled that specimen of minor American royalty, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, whose remarks were piercing but whose life often seemed beside the point.
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Mr. Leonard reminded me that he's just one guy and can't speak for others, then gently explained that my whole argument felt beside the point.
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Whether or not Burr and Loeffler committed any actual crime -- and, again, there's no current evidence they did -- is in some ways beside the point.
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The 22-year-old singer is climbing the charts while demonstrating how his sexual orientation is both part of his art and beside the point.
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Indeed, to Ramsay's point, one might assume that this type of numerical nitpicking is beside the point when it comes to a stock like Nvidia.
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But Chuck Rocha, a senior adviser and point man for Sanders' aggressive courtship of Latino voters in the state, said that was beside the point.
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But Mr. Urie and Ms. Ruehl take the show to a level of emotional truthfulness that makes objections to ungainly construction feel beside the point.
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But whatever these levies do to public health may be beside the point: They at least raise awareness about the health harms of sugary drinks.
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It was, in the loosest sense, somewhere in the realm of a new wave or darkwave sound, but the music was almost beside the point.
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But on this day, that seemed to be more or less beside the point, even if the fact that it had happened was not in dispute.
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Whether or not Warren is, in fact, Native American is still subject of debate in and out of Indian country, but it is beside the point.
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Sure, maybe the company betrayed the loyal people who funded the project and made it a reality in the first place, but that's beside the point.
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The DAO tale had a particular twist in that more than a third of the proceeds were stolen by hackers, but that's largely beside the point.
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If all goes according to the polls, Taiwan will elect its first female president within the next 24 hours, but that may be beside the point.
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Whether what he said in the Oval Office with the Russians and the disclosure of "code word" intelligence regarding ISIS was legal is beside the point.
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The specifics of the massively complicated piece of legislation, the result of three months of rushed compromise among House Republicans, were pretty much beside the point.
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Some bankers have argued that focusing on violations of mortgage terms is overly legalistic, and beside the point given the widespread defaults during the financial crisis.
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All other concerns — about privacy and modesty in a setting that most people consider almost as safe and intimate as their bedrooms — are beside the point.
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I drive a used plug-in Prius hybrid powered in large part by the solar panels on my roof in D.C. – but that's beside the point.
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"We think that these matters are beside the point," Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes wrote for the United States Supreme Court, overturning the state court's ruling.
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Yet as we hear of animals being skinned alive and see a bludgeoned pup linger in agony, any pro-hunt argument seems emphatically beside the point.
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Whether that came from his father, his mentor Roy Cohn, his own life experiences or some combination of all three is sort of beside the point.
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This is false — consider Israel's horrified reaction to Trump's announcement last year that he intended to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria — but it's beside the point.
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Prydz and his team are unsure if there will be other Holosphere performances in the future, but asking about its future might be beside the point.
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But the fact that this was a straightforward test is "beside the point," said Aaron Roth, computer scientist and privacy expert at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Yet for most consumer brands, of which J. Crew is one, the designer is almost beside the point; a leader whose name most consumers never know.
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Sometimes, actually finding the one true thing that will make your makeup stay on better or will fade your dark spots is actually beside the point.
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"Whether the Ebola outbreak in the DRC technically is or is not a [PHEIC] is beside the point," said America's former Ebola response coordinator, Ron Klain.
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And though there's been a lot of chatter about whether the look is stylish, Jessica Jones costume designer Elisabeth Vastola told me that's totally beside the point.
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Sure, art remains a commodity, and the world a terrifying place, but at least in this still, echoing moment, it doesn't seem beside the point to care.
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There&aposs a lot of good policy being discussed here on this program and in Congress, and I think that will end up being beside the point.
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But now that production is beginning to kick into high gear, which, in a sense, makes questions about technological bugs and cost a bit beside the point.
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Well, technically, TCL made the phone, but that's beside the point, which is: people are paying attention to BlackBerry phones again for the first time in ages.
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Although the missions in Dishonored 2 are focused on taking out specific individual targets, and there is sometimes combat involved, the action is almost beside the point.
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But the fact that Trump is nice and not anti-Semitic in person is beside the point, and Kushner would know that if he read Schwartz's letter.
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Either idea can be controversial, and focussing on contributing factors, such as drinking, rather than just on the bad acts of perpetrators, can seem beside the point.
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Whether or not these messages would ever be intercepted by an alien species that could interpret them is an open question, and also somewhat beside the point.
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Yet when strolling through the Panjiayuan market, a huge open-air space in southeast Beijing, the question of whether the wares are authentic is beside the point.
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Reports that indicated Paddock had considered other targets with very different crowds, including a festival headlined by Chance the Rapper the previous weekend, were beside the point.
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But if "identity politics" means promoting black and female candidates who don't have "the guts to take on the oligarchy," Sanders argued, it's largely beside the point.
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While Bjork might have mimed laying an egg on the red carpet in her Pejoski swan costume, ballet seems to be beside the point with these dresses.
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Some of the amateur, er, vocalization can jar the ears of a critical listener who is not taking part himself, but that is utterly beside the point.
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I have nursed some doubts about the legitimacy of some students' requests for extended time, but that is beside the point; I am obliged to grant them.
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Cultural elites can fact-check these men and point out glaring rhetorical contradictions until they are blue in the face; kayfabe renders it all beside the point.
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The killer might still be at large, but his identity is beside the point, his victims simply the aphrodisiac that ignites the movie's atmosphere of sinister arousal.
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Still, it feels appalling, unfair, even beside the point to turn to questions of what should happen to the #MeToo-ed men who aren't headed to court.
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But law professors and judges, including some appointed by conservative presidents, say the amount of money an individual obtains in a class action is beside the point.
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The D.A.O. episode had a particular twist in that more than a third of the proceeds was stolen by hackers, but that is largely beside the point.
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The question whether these are art or not is beside the point; the deeper question is whether we can respond to them without trying to normalize them.
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Whether Trump is doing this intentionally or through a level of carelessness that would be a crisis for any other campaign is, in a way, beside the point.
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We broke the story ... Sweden might be on the hook to pay Rocky back millions if he's found not guilty, but Anderson tells us that's beside the point.
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Whether this device, or one, two, three, or perhaps four iterations down the line, is the one that breaks through to the mainstream is somewhat beside the point.
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Bookstores these days can be dispiriting places, with their novelty merchandise and beside-the-point coffee bars, their groaning piles of discounted thrillers and dwindling numbers of customers.
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But all of that's beside the point because what's most interesting about these newly unsealed court documents are transcripts of private text messages sent between Andreessen and Zuckerberg.
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Sanders got smoked in Washington, D.C.'s Democratic primary tonight, but that's beside the point—Hillary Clinton was already going to be the Democratic Party's nominee for president.
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Whether or not this is the future of figurative painting seems beside the point since it is the future of America, whatever conservatives in the red states think.
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The timing is kind of beside the point though, because if you are in the market for a new set of quality hair straighteners then you shouldn't hesitate.
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Whether this is true is beside the point: The methodology employed by these surveys has always yielded stronger results for Democrats than other surveys, including the exit polls.
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The fact U.S. President Donald Trump insisted that Kim Jung Un sincerely did not know about the torture and murder of Otto Warmbier is largely beside the point.
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But the sheer quantity of clever sentences and wry observations weighs the story down, until the championship game becomes not only anticlimactic, but also strangely beside the point.
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The occasion of the hearing, to help a judge decide Dr. Nassar's prospective sentence on state charges of nearly a dozen sexual assaults, appeared almost beside the point.
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It's beside the point not because a president's mental capacity doesn't matter, nor because we should blindly accept our leaders' declarations of their own stability, let alone genius.
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He becomes an emblem of do-gooding wishy-washy, optics-obsessed paternalism — and these Panther parties were possibly beside the point of most engaged interracial civil rights struggles.
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Whether Canada and the United States can patch up their Trump-inspired squabble may be beside the point because FIFA has been clawing back control of the tournament.
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But perhaps most thrilling is a book with a castle featuring a girl who's curious and accomplished, with her social status and marital prospects blissfully beside the point.
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And it's beside the point, even if a few underage women did befriend Kelly for his fame, it is no defense for the sexual abuse allegations Kelly faces.
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"Skyscraper" is even set in China, so it's possible that by the time the film opens there next week, the weak domestic returns will be beside the point.
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The artist's attention to process and materials, along with his poetic commitment to the diminutive and the subtle, make questions of cultural positioning feel almost beside the point.
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There's an Esquire writer, Charles Pierce, who will write about him but won't refer to him by name, and he uses an asterisk, which seems beside the point.
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The sound quality was erratic, the cinematography was beside the point, but there was a quality of life and precariously high emotional stakes that elude most so-called art.
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But that is beside the point, because the Eighth Amendment prohibits only punishments that add "terror, pain or disgrace" on top of the mechanics of ending a criminal's life.
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What these rumblings for bipartisan negotiations mean for the actual policy appears to be beside the point for the president — but that's not the case for top Republican leaders.
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But whether I ever attended a reception where the Russian Ambassador was also present is entirely beside the point of this investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 campaigns.
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He's on record as stating that Mueller's investigation into Trump's finances was beyond the scope of the special counsel's referral; but that broadly-worded document is beside the point.
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That might make sloganeering more difficult for strategists and consultants, but it's ultimately beside the point: People hate Trump for lots of reasons and that's broadly good for Democrats.
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In both of his convictions, it sounded like David was incredibly unlucky, but that is perhaps beside the point: could it ever be fair to deport someone like David?
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I don't know what black magic it took to create them, or how their maker can possibly hope to sell more expensive models, but that's all beside the point.
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But as fans arrived on Thursday night for what turned out to be their team's final game of the season, many said all the winning was beside the point.
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His inclusion may be unavoidable, but after hundreds of pages of bare-knuckle politics having nothing to do with him, his appearance comes across as vaguely beside the point.
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The dearth of hard evidence connecting Saddam Hussein to Al Qaeda or confirming the existence of an Iraqi program for developing weapons of mass destruction was beside the point.
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The doughnut was mediocre, but that was beside the point: The coffee, a dense, bittersweet shot of only three or four ounces, was some of the best I've had.
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It is the messy, painful emotions of this book, rendered by Wolitzer with exacting specificity, that make it so stunning, while its zeitgeisty politics are rather beside the point.
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They showed off Opening Ceremony's spring collection, too, and the custom garments they had made for themselves using the same fabrics, though that seemed a little beside the point.
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To Ms. Kanarek and her lawyer, the details of the spiraling conflict between trainer and student, whether bandied about in the courtroom or on Facebook, are beside the point.
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But they are beside the point for Supreme, which is so fiercely protective of its anarchic downtown heritage that it would rather be ignored by the masses than misunderstood.
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Or maybe your depression is severe enough that the job issue is somewhat beside the point and the crucial thing is for you to seek out mental health treatment.
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Also, one can play the game of who was left out of this show, as one of my colleagues has done, but I think that is beside the point.
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"Ear Plugs" is painted so thickly that it could easily be referred to as a relief, making the distinction between sculpture and painting seems almost beside the point here.
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Ultimately, though, given its strengths and singularities, whether or not this kind of art is endorsed by a high-art temple like the Met may well be beside the point.
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That they did not strictly seem to know what they were talking about was as beside the point as it always is at this time, this year and every year.
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The beauty tips were almost beside the point, but the woman undeniably knew her stuff; I still use products she recommended years ago for my go-to concealer and perfume.
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It shouldn't have taken Chris Benoit's murder/suicide to bring stuff like chairshots to the head to a halt, but that's beside the point: they're banned now, and rightly so.
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If that's Uber's real strategy — and the company is investing heavily in self-driving technology — then the profitability of the company's existing ride-hailing business might be beside the point.
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Thus, hand-wringing that Trump's move took the wind out of the sails of his son-in-law's grandiose plans to engineer Palestinian-Israeli peace is somewhat beside the point.
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But the show isn't really set in the New York restaurant world, and judging it for its depiction of cooking or the food business would be completely beside the point.
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Monroe, a month-old restaurant from the same family as Kiki's, continues that tradition: the wine is just as reasonable and the portions just as large and beside the point.
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We also know it would have chosen differently if "one person, one vote" were anything but a cruel joke under our Electoral College system — but that's beside the point now.
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This season, more than any other — the Yahoo of it all, the fact that Comet didn't go to be the search box on your browser — almost felt beside the point.
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Both Ms. Douek and Ms. Ovide are open to breaking up Facebook to keep markets competitive, but they see trustbusting as somewhat beside the point of regulation and democratic oversight.
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But when the lights are flashing, and the bodies soaring and the music chiming, ticking off what this show isn't seems so beside the point, because hey, look, a teeterboard!
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He then pivoted to how Clinton's team "told people to go out and start fist fights and start violence" at his rallies, which is both false and beside the point.
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This being This Is Us, it seems inevitable that Randall will pull out a last-minute win, but that's kind of beside the point after what goes down at home later.
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As curious as we might be about what prompted a painting by Frecon — and it is never really just one thing — an attempt to discover it seems almost beside the point.
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"Bates Motel's" loyal fans might have bonded with the characters to the point where the show has assumed a life of its own, and fidelity to "Psycho" is beside the point.
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But that's kind of beside the point: As the Verge noted, Apple moving its supply chain stateside would dramatically increase expenses to the point where it would far outstrip any tariff.
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A MINUS Young Thug: Jeffery (300/Atlantic) The one wan joke I noticed must have been so beside the point it slipped between the cracks, because now I can't find it.
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There's power in Gibson's simplicity and hardheaded certainty, and there are moments in his film so utterly absorbing that quibbles about the lack of character nuance feel entirely beside the point.
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The plot, frankly, is largely beside the point, with the trident serving roughly the same purpose as what Hitchcock called the MacGuffin -- any priceless artifact to set the chase in motion.
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Marital torpor, love triangles, adultery: big themes that Deborah Shapiro touches on in her debut novel about female friendship, "The Sun in Your Eyes," but which are really beside the point.
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The package of prospects they got from the Cleveland Indians on Sunday — Clint Frazier, Justus Sheffield, Ben Heller and J. P. Feyereisen — looks promising, but that is almost beside the point.
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That's beside the point that prosecutors say the payment to McDougal, which Michael Cohen and AMI both now say was made to influence the election, amounted to an illegal campaign donation.
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Ryan Deitsch said that he did not feel comfortable even tweeting his opinion of "Black Panther" (he thought it was great and that comparisons to "Thor: Ragnarok" were beside the point).
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The reality that the country lacks the money to pay for a giant increase in social spending combined with a new generation of weapons was beside the point, Mr. Makarkin said.
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I think … this all may be beside the point and that it's time for you to reread the I.R.S. guidelines on what constitutes a contract worker and what constitutes an employee.
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Slaves being brought to American shores, and settlers fighting wars of expansion against Native American groups, are almost beside the point; neither slavery nor conquest are unique to the American experiment.
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That Texas Tech could have an extra challenge against Virginia if Owens, who injured his ankle on Saturday night, is unable to play or be effective, almost seems beside the point.
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Whether or not this presents a balanced view of Detroit is, of course, beside the point, and does nothing to diminish Jordano's stunning camera and lighting work, and his knack for framing.
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Elvis Costello once famously said that writing about music was like "dancing about architecture" — or maybe it was Martin Mull or Laurie Anderson or Frank Zappa, but that's beside the point really.
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Whether this is an intended or an unintended consequence of the administration's policies (and which one it is probably depends on who in the administration you ask) is somewhat beside the point.
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Clearly we have not yet achieved the kind of genderless utopia where it would be beside the point to address the specific issues that people of different genders and assigned-sexes face.
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And if it doesn't end in a climactic gunfight or other setpiece, it's not valuable to the goals of triple-A games, where character and plot are so often beside the point.
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But those anxieties are somewhat beside the point, given that there will already be someone on stage with every incentive to expose Trump as a liar, and ample opportunity to do so.
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Whether the prize is aspirational or for something the winner has actually achieved is beside the point, argued Nancy Lindborg, president of the United States Institute of Peace, a government-funded organization.
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Noah — a movie too weird and challenging to have ever really become a box-office hit, but that's beside the point — had been crudely fashioned into a blunt instrument for culture warriors.
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There are painfully evident things that Los Angeles has and Sydney doesn't, which I'll leave out of this particular argument — amazing tacos, world-class-yet-affordable sushi — but that's beside the point.
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The fact that 10 of their first 13 points came courtesy of fumbles by the Rams' punt and kickoff return teams, setting up remarkably short scoring drives, was almost beside the point.
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While Ryan's claim that his funding mechanism means there's "not a trillion dollars coming from federal taxpayers into the transportation system" is technically true, it's also beside the point, as we've seen.
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But whether it works is almost beside the point: peer-to-peer facial recognition software is still in its early stages and it's likely to get more prevalent as time goes on.
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For example, we have no idea what it is the factory makes, but it's so hard to answer what's being done at most office parks that the question seems beside the point.
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"Whether you believe in the concept of intersectionality is beside the point," Gregory told me recently, referring to the idea that the oppression of one group is the oppression of all others.
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There's a corresponding poster for each of these stations peppered throughout the book, but it remains unclear what text was drawn from which poster, and mapping that out seems beside the point.
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Whether he sincerely supports Donald Trump is beside the point––he's said over and over this summer that his stated support is radical simply because people don't want him to voice it.
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Gravel's politics are beside the point here, though—the important thing is that he's standing there, in front of the camera, silently imploring the viewer to listen while being unable to say anything.
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But the flashy bits of the Apple Watch — including its many "dynamic" watch faces that manifest dancing flames to lick the poor hour and minute hands of my timepiece — seem beside the point.
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Now, as OITNB rolls into its final season, its use of Piper as a device for making the harsh realities of prison life more accessible and entertaining feels, at best, beside the point.
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Ben sits roughly five metres from us in the UK office so I'm not sure why he didn't just shout down the desk, or walk those five metres, but that's beside the point.
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Of course, most Chomskyans behave nothing like this, but there does exist a current of opinion within the Chomskyan syntax orbit that considers most other kinds of linguistic inquiry as beside the point.
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At some point, however, violent clashes in the street — of the sort that we've seen in Berkeley already, and in Charlottesville — threaten to render legalistic discussion of the First Amendment beside the point.
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Until the mid-30s at least, when the more grotesque sides of Fascism could no longer be ignored, politics seemed beside the point: Architects knew such creative freedom would not soon come again.
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In other words, all the talk about what this means for the White House is largely beside the point — the question is whether the Ukraine scandal will deliver the Senate into Democratic hands.
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For politicians whose priority is kicking noncitizens out of the country, the decision — which acknowledged that the children might be deportable but assumed that many would not be deported — is beside the point.
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Detractors of the studio's work say it sometimes resembles a stage set, but for Peregalli and Sartori Rimini, the question of authenticity is more complex than that — and also entirely beside the point.
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The statement is advocating for a balanced curriculum in prekindergarten that does not ignore playful learning and doesn't regard time spent in the block corner as somehow beside the point, Dr. Yogman said.
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Where All the School's a Stage, and the List of Success Stories Is Long In high schools of the performing and visual arts, race, sexual identity and ZIP code are beside the point.
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But the idea that "some short comedy loser say[ing] something dumb about rape" (as Dunham refers to Metzger) shouldn't be a problem just because we're "so strong" is completely beside the point.
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No social barrier has been magically broken by virtue of us being naked and sweaty in the same room, which is when I realize that the workout is not at all beside the point.
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We are in a zone where the difference between representation and abstraction is beside the point: we might as well be figuring out how many angels have gathered on the head of a pin.
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Whether Ms. Larson's performance merits a prize previously denied to such multiple nominees as Glenn Close, Sigourney Weaver and Annette Bening is beside the point, because, on this front, it's all but a lock.
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For Mr Gove, this story of social mobility enabled by traditionalist education was an inspiring parable (that Gramsci's education had led him to question the very basis of conservative society was beside the point).
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That's not to say that I think it's just a media consumption device anymore — far from it — but the whole discourse around "the future of computers" is exhausting and a little beside the point.
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Nine TV, 60 Minutes parent network, has refused to comment on whether they paid CARI for their services, despite reports of a document proving they did, but Zahr said that was beside the point.
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The fact that he failed to recommend that the Department of Justice indict Clinton is beside the point—in fact, an indictment would have likely looked like overreach and could have backfired, politically speaking.
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Anything that isn't about how 24 million people are going to lose their health insurance, and how health care costs will rise so Republicans can give rich people tax cuts, is beside the point.
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This is why such distinctions as tasteful and tasteless seem beside the point when looking at and thinking about Saul's garish work, which is just one reason why he is such an important artist.
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The debate over whether Hannity is an activist or a journalist -- he kind of, sort of, identifies as both depending on which is more convenient at any given time -- is beside the point here.
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When strangers on the train would watch him gurgling happily in his stroller and ask me what he "was," it struck me as the least interesting, most beside-the-point question one could ponder.
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Wherever it ends up is, at this point, almost beside the point; Amazon has won so much positive coverage from the selection process that it can already count the story as a big win.
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There's no real reason Jake's creations should be given tangible form within the pair's treehouse, but that's beside the point: "Rainy Day Daydream" is a pared-down, joyous ode to the power of creativity.
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The page is where I finally came to understand my own body and its evolving narrative, where I continue to learn when my disability informs a particular dynamic and when it's beside the point.
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" But all of that was almost beside the point: "More than anything," the piece concluded, "he must continue succeeding, continue pushing forward, and continue delivering success to a Steelers roster that desperately needs him.
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If this is the case then it's correct but also a little beside the point to complain about how the wreckers and establishment types and Ryanists are all betraying the voters by submarining Trumpism.
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In an Instagram post, he wrote that the character's sexuality was "beside the point," that hopefully everyone could "relate to being different," and that he hoped Stranger Things will never actually answer the question.
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ELHADJ AS SYSecretary-generalInternational Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent SocietiesGeneva * Your argument that the unplanned sprawl resulting from Houston's opposition to zoning contributed to the widespread and destructive flooding is beside the point.
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To some extent, this is beside the point; even if they had been totally cautious and careful in characterizing the intelligence, the war still would've been a catastrophic mistake that took an immense human toll.
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The fact that more than 90 percent of abortions happen in the first trimester, that shutting down Planned Parenthood clinics robs low-income women of health care and family planning services, is beside the point.
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"The first thing you'll see when you walk in is the food," said Mr. Zalaznick, who is eager to revise the old restaurant's reputation as a place where the food was largely beside the point.
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It's tricky to pin down the contributions of individual ingredients, and beside the point: The dish is a marriage of raw and cooked, fresh and aged, with a hundred minuscule but distinct shifts in crunch.
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In an interview on Thursday, Mr. Houlbrook said the government's announcement could have "symbolic and practical importance" for men still seeking to clear their names, but he argued that the pardons were somewhat beside the point.
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That feels beside the point to me; the show has always been on the receiving end of backlash because it is about deeply flawed women, and people look for any and all opportunities to criticize women.
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But a tidy ending does not diminish Phillips's deep examination of loss and longing, and it is a testament to the novel's power that knowing what happened to the sisters remains very much beside the point.
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Over the last decade, the most sold images from Getty for the search term "women" have evolved from photos of mostly naked models to active women to ones in which women's appearance is beside the point.
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But Drew, who shows up back in California to trade a few more bullets and explain himself to Audrey, is as close to beside the point as a heavily armed, lethally trained international operative can be.
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But whether the Berlin-based producer Lotic's avant-garde electro ballads, Adam Golebiewskie's brutal solo drumming demonstration or the Spanish D.J. JASSS's rumbling audiovisual show were great in their own right was somewhat beside the point.
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Vox's German Lopez reported on Sessions's statement that it was "very painful" to be called a racist — and explained why it was both beside the point and representative of larger patterns: On Tuesday, South Carolina Sen.
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But the final moments of "Five Stars for Beezus" — so named for Fred Willard's eccentric Uber driver who gets Nick home — are so purely romantic and fun that knowing the inevitable conclusion becomes totally beside the point.
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But quibbling over the word "robot" is beside the point: the point is that Quintana, who died last week, spent some of his last moments interacting with a person through a screen rather than face-to-face.
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I knew my criticisms of other aspects of the dining experience, including the service, the wine list and the side dishes, would strike Luger loyalists as beside the point, so I ended the review by recognizing that.
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Just like "Kimmy Goes to a Play," it felt like 30 Rock was trying to flip off critics, but it almost immediately diverted from an actual issue to make a point that was ... well, beside the point.
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"Whether neo-liberal or Marxist, right or left is beside the point; what it represented was the assertion of freedom -- yes 'azaadi' -- from unpalatable McCarthyism and political highhandedness," she wrote in a piece published by her broadcaster.
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White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters on Wednesday that the question of whether the anti-Muslim videos President Trump retweeted Wednesday morning are real is beside the point because "the threat is real," per CNN.
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That's beside the point for most of us, because few of us (I hope) have the sort of extreme wealth and extreme dearth of self-awareness to put such a lame object of clothing on our body.
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The film doesn't really explain how or why Kubo has the power, but this is a fantasy, after all, and the sequences are so inventive and whimsical that the logic of it all is beside the point.
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Whether Kylie Jenner or Bella Hadid has had them (although the plastic surgeons I spoke to said they suspect they have) is somewhat beside the point: Many, many more regular young people are getting them now, too.
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The relationship between all those players can be so fraught that even discussing fan fiction with its real-life subjects is taboo among many such writers, as the spotlight can feel meanspirited, or just beside the point.
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Whether she was as remarkable as the woman onscreen seems entirely beside the point — "20th Century Women" is a memory movie, one in which people are conjured up to bump against the larger world, exuberantly and uneasily.
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That's almost beside the point," he said, adding that his "main concern" is whether the FBI's investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server was meant to "cover up and exonerate.
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So instead, we're going with this "future of TV is apps" argument, which is true but also sort of beside the point — it's not the container that's important, but what's in it and how much it costs.
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Whether or not she ever somehow gets into the Barragán archive is beside the point; she has built this project around the battle of wills between individual and corporation, with the archive turned into a MacGuffin of sorts.
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Brian Fallon, executive director of liberal advocacy group Demand Justice, said the fact that these nominees weren't considered controversial was beside the point — the agreement to expedite them meant Republicans could move on more quickly to controversial picks.
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Near the end of the comic, Toms makes a few nods to the idea that the characters may indeed be living under secret lizard rule, but for all the characters other than Whitney's father, that's beside the point.
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The music was the whole point on Saturday — neither the three composers who founded Bang on a Can nor Mr. Zorn is much interested in dressing up plain, simple performance — but it was also somehow beside the point.
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She can't even wear her hair straight without people automatically assuming she's pregnant (even though, yeah, she was, but that's beside the point.) So naturally, when Markle gets a haircut — even the teeniest, tiniest of trims — the sirens sound.
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The legal ethics attending Browne's decision to write about his client's confidences seem almost beside the point: Whatever he has to say has likely been said already, even if it has, in the past, been only a lucky guess.
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They pointed out that most women don't have the financial resources at Ivanka's disposal, and that even if they did, that was beside the point—the sexual harassers, not the victims of harassment, should be the ones to go.
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Whether this is a defense mechanism against getting hurt after losing the love of her life, or because she's still recovering from a brutal physical attack and juggling an intense career and raising three kids is beside the point.
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How I came upon a copy of Cooking Basics for Dummies in the first place is somewhat beside the point, because I knew as soon as I began to parse its 464 pages that I wasn't the intended audience.
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And yet because the movie is mostly scenes of recording sessions, squabbling and self-pity, Mercury's stardom is made beside the point — it's assumed — so Malek gets to play a charismatic sufferer, -quipster and, eventually, proud brown gay man.
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It wasn't impossible that "A Refusal" might receive publicity which could then be parlayed into some measure of notoriety for the artist, but the project's very nature, retiring and ingenuous, made such an outcome unlikely, and beside the point.
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It's almost beside the point as to what really happened in that cab or at that gas station in Barra da Tijuca, whether Brazilian authorities have made too big a deal out of whatever fabrications may or may not be involved.
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But her weight is really beside the point, and she went on to explain why she chose to share the horrid email: "I am sharing this email I received to show you what some people have to go through," she wrote.
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"That it hasn't risen to the level of a beheading is beside the point," Ms. Marsh said, adding that the anti-cult group's regimen of attacks and intimidation — even if it is yelling and shoving — interferes with her clients' religious freedom.
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He watched those audiences (the crying, the laughing, the seat-dancing), and he took their questions about how much he loves Lady Gaga and about how hard it was to change his voice, but they were all beside the point.
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" Dominic Cavendish, writing in The Telegraph, described it as "perhaps the most important American play of the century so far" and said, "Star ratings are almost beside the point when confronted by work of this magnitude but hell, yeah, five.
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Bob Corker (R-TN) told reporters, the "content" of the skinny repeal bill is beside the point — it's all about a "forcing mechanism" to conference with House, the idea being that negotiations with the House would produce a more robust plan.
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Rather than revolving around rhythm and melody, the songs act as environments unto themselves, drifting about freely as Hollis wrenches every note from his voice with an intensity that makes his lyrics as cryptically indecipherable as they are beside the point.
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The threshold to impeach a Supreme Court justice is high, but whether or not it's possible for Democrats to impeach Kavanaugh is almost beside the point for those who see the ongoing Supreme Court fight as a way to drive voter enthusiasm.
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In Raw, Justine's thoughts and feelings are externalized to such an extreme degree that whether she's attractive is way beside the point, and the camera really only focuses in on her body with a scientific and not prurient interest, when it's in distress.
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The fact that this song happens to be similar to Katherine's lines, even though it was written in 1989 (at least a century after when Lady Macbeth is set) and was inspired by a scientific paper is kind of beside the point.
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These mostly young women would parade up and down the sidewalk, the avenue, the Tuileries in their freshest outfits, preening and "peacocking" for the cameras — whether they ever set foot inside the venue and witnessed the fashion show was beside the point.
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It seems beside the point to split hairs about where the sex/not sex line is at the level of activity — whether physical contact is a necessary condition, if we can agree that penetration or even orgasm are not, in other sexual scenarios.
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While featured in several high-profile fashion and branding campaigns (including a collab with Giphy and Prada for Instagram), in press interviews Miquela always avoided any satisfying explanation about how and why she exists at all, claiming those details were beside the point.
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But I think a lot of those questions end up being beside the point — either Apple will resolve them with technical changes to iOS, or our notions of what we actually need will change and adapt to what the iPad can do.
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But KFC's relative value is beside the point: "Not the worst thing in the world" is a thing you say if you've either just had KFC for the first time, or if you're lying about having had KFC for the first time.
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The strange contradiction at the center of Sunday Service was that, while it's certainly a testament to Kanye's power and vanity that he lured us all out of our comedowns to be here at 9 AM, his presence was really beside the point.
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Still, even if men do end up ruling the box office, there's something notable about the way that many of 2018's movies have rendered them utterly useless, making them not just secondary characters but actively portraying them as beside the point.
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The fact that he's a boastful demigod instead of a smug thief seems almost beside the point: Both Maui (Dwayne Johnson) in Moana and Flynn Rider in Tangled are flashy, arrogant, and headed for breakdowns when they realize the limits of their talents.
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Whether this dog-and-pony show was inept because lawmakers are beholden to corporate interests or are digitally illiterate is beside the point: Either way, it is time for our politicians to act, as Zeynep Tufekci wrote in the New York Times.
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That they may be too cowed or craven to do anything about their concerns is beside the point: All that matters for the purposes of identifying sources of optimism is that their moral barometers aren't broken in quite the way Trump's is.
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I understand that, in a way, it emerging with relevance to the here and now is almost beside the point—it's supposed to be an echo of the past, rendered more brightly, running more smoothly, than any game could be in the 113s.
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But to Linda Bacon, an associate nutritionist at the University of California, Davis, and author of the book "Health at Every Size," trying to assess the odds is beside the point, because doctors' jobs are to treat the patient in front of them.
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The justification proffered by the president's spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, to the effect that the videos expose a real threat, was typically beside the point, which is that the president of the United States was helping spread the propaganda of a hate group.
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Culture / Fun • Troye Sivan Is a New Kind of Pop Star: Here, Queer and Used to It: The 22-year-old singer is climbing the charts while demonstrating how his sexual orientation is both part of his art and beside the point.
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One way of looking at this is to say that, by running as a populist, Sanders has made clear to West Virginia that he's really on their side — and that the fine details of his environmental plan are somewhat beside the point.
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Whether it is legally grounded or not is beside the point; the document itself was a signal to the FCC and other agencies that they're free to ignore attempts at transparency outside the scarce and sporadic oversight hearings convened by high-ranked GOP lawmakers.
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The film periodically snaps back to that containment room, where Lomax looms over Lena, trying to make sense out of an account that refuses to be made sense of, assigning motivations and arriving at solutions that aren't inadequate so much as beside the point.
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"I didn't do it," Hamill says, and starts to say something about his parents, and how they didn't do it either, and "it" I understand is "enslave people," which considering Hamill's age (advanced but alive in 2018) is almost undoubtedly true but beside the point.
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When I talked to some of the few businesspeople who do support Trump, the common refrain was the one I heard from Andrew Beal: that the specifics of his plans were beside the point, because Trump's proven instincts as a businessman were all that mattered.
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Much will be made about Gillespie's response (or lack thereof) to these endorsements, but it's really beside the point: The embrace of MS-13 and Confederate statues by Gillespie's campaign shows the extent to which the specter of Donald Trump is haunting this race.
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Regarding four members of Congress targeted by Trump's endless slanders against their patriotism, whether we agree with them or not on individual issues is beside the point, which is that they love our country deeply — like every member of Congress from both political parties!
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Whether Cambridge Analytica misused the data or obtained it in some nefarious way is beside the point—thousands of apps have been used to gather information about millions of Facebook users, and there is little stopping them from selling that data to other people.
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"Cradle to Grave," with its loose, episodic structure (there's a lot of "I remember when …" and "So there I was …") and its wistful glow may seem beside the point at a time when the meta-comedy and the harsh non-comedy are in ascendance.
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But the number of people in the US who died from the flu in 1990 is beside the point right now — what matters for public officials like Trump is providing people with the information they need to stop the Covid-19 outbreak from getting worse.
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Heavily indebted Intu can do little more than offer a cut in service charge fees, but that's slightly beside the point given it revealed on Thursday it only received 29% of rent due despite having profitable tenants like Inditex-owned Zara and H&M.
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I'm amused, this smile of his said, but nothing you say can touch me, because none of this really matters, not ultimately, and maybe one day you'll wake up and realize that everything you've spent a lifetime chasing and acquiring is, ultimately, beside the point.
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I won't wear Samsung's new Gear Sport or Garmin's Vivoactive fitness watches to lavish dinners (OK, I don't go to lavish dinners, but that's beside the point) — I'll wear it for my evening run (OK, I don't go on evening runs either, shut up).
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The trophies are almost beside the point at this particular awards stop, which is seen mostly as a moneymaking moment — for NBC; for studios that gain a marketing hook for winter films; and for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group behind the awards.
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Most of these considerations will be beside the point if you're a fan of the verbal warp and woof of Caspe's method — the enveloping fabric of one-liners, insults, puns and, especially, references that register as jokes simply by virtue of their surprise value.
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Just as it's possible for a person to say something sexist without intending to demean women, it's also possible for a "reasonable" explanation — like, say, Phelps being more famous than Ledecky — to either not be the whole story or to be beside the point.
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It's too bad The Orville itself didn't turn out to be worth the trouble, but as far as Fox and MacFarlane are concerned, the show being good might be beside the point, so long as they both get what they want from each other.
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Nonetheless, an eBay employee named Brad B. sent Mr. Erike an email in late May that first hit some sympathetic chords ("I can understand how upsetting it can be to have a case opened against you"), but underscored that evidence was kind of beside the point.
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His teammate Kyle Kuzma couldn't let that one go, though, and decided to serve up some roast GOAT: LeBron came back with a dad-ass "NOT" joke in response—only just compounding his old-man look: But this Christmas party business is all beside the point.
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Whether he knowingly colluded with the Russian web campaign is almost beside the point, since he is directly colluding with Russia's efforts to discredit democracy when he treats the Kremlin's brazen cybermeddling as a partisan issue and absurdly pins the blame on Barack Obama or Mrs. Clinton.
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On the one hand, it's a clever idea to have the pair negotiate drug supplies while sparring in Scatter's martial-arts gym; on the other, the cleverness becomes beside the point because Director X can't manage to make both the action and the dialogue work in tandem.
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Whether the telling of a story, even in fragments, continues to serve Malick's needs is open to question, and to find fault with his narratives may be beside the point; he's more of a naturalist by now, paying no more than fitful attention to the human.
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Unlike the work of other ostensibly political auteurs, Jia's films are not tirades (words are so often beside the point in these stories, despite their literary breadth), but beautifully cinematic realizations of a phrase whose ubiquity tends to drown out its complexity: The personal is political.
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But that's beside the point; just like with a previous video mocking Twitter critics he filmed with the right-wing site Independent Journal Review, the intent seems to be finding friendly last-minute venues for Pai to publicly laugh off the intense criticism being directed at his plan.
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Its the over-the-top depiction of bloodthirsty blondes decked out in Brooks Brothers and Lilly Pulitzer, sharpening their machetes while spouting sanctimonious pseudo-religious nonsense about their rights is absurd and beside the point — the evils of privilege are the banal kind, after all — but also darkly cathartic.
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But that&aposs beside the point, says George, one of a group of friends in Massachusetts, ranging between 17 and 18 years old, who are credited with posting the first group chat video on TikTok (it&aposs hard to verify, considering TikTok is largely absent of time stamps).
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Whether the case ever goes to trial is now beside the point for Goguen, who has enjoyed a lucrative career as a venture capitalist and who, fairly or unfairly, will now be publicly associated with that complaint and the person who filed it, despite his strongly worded counter-complaint.
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The prosecution's argument is also somewhat beside the point, because it is clear that relapses are common in people struggling to overcome addiction, whether one considers it a disease or not; specialists say that most opioid addicts relapse an average of five to six times before achieving full sobriety.
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During the election, it was apparent to almost anyone with an account that Facebook was teeming with political content, much of it extremely partisan or pitched, its sourcing sometimes obvious, other times obscured, and often simply beside the point — memes or rants or theories that spoke for themselves.
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Or is that beside the point when Klobuchar has yet to take a solid position on Enbridge's Line 3 tar-sands oil pipeline that will cut through the land of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and snake within miles of three other tribal nations?
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I won't tell you what it depicts, and I wouldn't explain it if you happened to see me with my shirt off, but that's beside the point: Like all homemade tattoos, it's a flamboyant declaration that a lot of things had to happen for me to be me.
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In some respects, the ultimate destination is almost beside the point, since the allure of such a project is the room that it creates for interpretation and debate, and this limited series certainly pulls viewers along from one episode to the next, while dabbling in big ideas about the great unknown.
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Trump&aposs Pick to Oversee Medicare Took Money From Health Contractors While Designing State Health…The Trump regime's pick for Health Secretary, Tom Price, was confirmed by the Senate overnight and…Read more ReadPointing out a broken promise by Trump, these days, seems beside the point, but hell, why not?
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Fast forward to 2016, at the height of the Syrian war as I sit in my beautiful, sun-drenched apartment in Los Angeles, enjoying cold watermelon on my day off from working as a series lead in a highly anticipated TV show (canceled after one season, but that's beside the point).
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"Factors such as the UK's monetary and fiscal response or Brexit are beside the point: this is about the U.S. dollar, which is proving unstoppable as global financial markets stare into the abyss of crisis-like conditions," Ranko Berich, head of market analysis at Monex Europe, a foreign exchange company.
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Glad. I mean, I just have a love and respect for brutal basslines, I'd like to think that gender is beside the point for me… but when I saw a woman killing it at death metal and destroying the whole "it's a man's game" stereotype, I couldn't help but feel inspired.
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AlannaOne of my favorite modes of conversation is repeating dubious facts that I vaguely and incompletely recollect, having read them somewhere on the Internet years ago, and my boyfriend always asks a lot of follow-up questions and says things like, "I feel like that isn't true," which is beside the point.
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Ross is most certainly problematic, and I would never want to date him, but I still can't help but think that he's the funniest character on the show, especially in the later seasons — this is beside the point, but David Schwimmer has undeniably impeccable comedic timing and his physical comedy was always excellent.
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Bee doesn't care for Pence's temperament, comparing it to having functioning air bags on a burning car ("Little bit reassuring, but kind of beside the point"); she's more concerned with his history of homophobic and problematic women's health legislation — and with pundit reactions that Pence is planning his own run for the presidency.
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We don't know when or if LEO satellite technology will ever evolve to a point where they can replace traditional telecom infrastructure, but in many ways that is beside the point: There are still an estimated 3.8 billion people who lack connectivity, many of whom live outside the reach of traditional telecom infrastructure.
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People argue over whether his impatience with politicians and Republican intransigence denied him bigger accomplishments, but that argument is beside the point: He rescued an economy in crisis and passed the recovery program, pulled America back from its military overreach, passed the Affordable Care Act and committed the nation to addressing climate change.
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He largely ran in place, fending off beside-the-point attacks from candidates such as Julian CastroJulian CastroMedia and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity CNN announces details for LGBTQ town hall New poll finds Biden, Warren in virtual tie in Iowa MORE who have no chance to win.
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Whether or not it was Eckhaus or Latta's decision to juxtapose so many elements under one roof was beside the point because, by look 45 — a beaded top that left little to the imagination — it was clear the two were making sense of what they've learned from each other over the past few years.
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NOW, THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WOULD WISH I STOP, AND THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT GOD MAKES ME STOP BUT THAT'S BESIDE -- THE POINT IS I THINK THE INDUSTRY COLLECTIVELY, ALL OF YOU IN IT, HAVE GOT TO DO A MUCH BETTER JOB OF GETTING YOUR MESSAGE OUT THERE HOW MUCH YOU DO FOR MANKIND.
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As Moaveni shows, Islamic texts may provide clues about some ISIS leaders and theologians, but they were rather beside the point for thousands of foot soldiers, administrators and go-along-to-get-along caliphate residents who mostly lacked religious expertise and were driven by a varied mix of politics, faith, economics and self-preservation.
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It's not that Yachty, whose music career has exploded in the last two months in part with a huge boost from a viral video, doesn't understand memes; rather, the language of online sharing and the hyperbolic enthusiasm that comes with it is so baked into the way he communicates it seems beside the point to dissect it.
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And if it's not, there's a good reason: Immortalized by De La Soul as "The Magic Number" on the group's 1989 album "3 Feet High and Rising," the Illuminati-friendly toe-tapper works so well as a song unto itself, despite being little more than a tuneful series of multiplication problems, that its provenance is almost beside the point.
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This is a surpassingly strange slice of cinematic arcana, the product of a team of pro-Roosevelt filmmakers who rushed it into production to support the newly elected president and his Depression-era reforms; the fact that it actually seemed to support the fascist idea of a tyrannical executive was either lost on them or beside the point.
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Its goal is to stimulate the economy by both upskilling existing employees and educating potential employees to fill the growing skills gap within the U.S. Whether you agree with this legislation is beside the point; what is important is that lawmakers trying to improve workforce training are missing a key component when they ignore financial literacy and its impact on workforce participation and productivity.
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That it was worn with a white trouser suit was almost beside the point, just as the parchment pantsuit that unexpectedly opened Giambattista Valli's show proved to be simply a throat-clearer for a maharajah moment in signature high/low dresses redrawn in henna patterns, a series of LWDs (little white dresses) in lace and lip prints, and ornate velvet pants with matching ornate tops.
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"The comedian Taran Killam has performed a lovingly observed parody, and YouTube is cluttered with step-by-step homages and tutorials," The Ringer's Lindsay Zoladz observed, "which is at once apt and entirely beside the point: The power of the choreography and the one-take video itself comes from how personal, singular, and idiosyncratic these moves feel, like a spontaneous overflowing of Robyn's strange heart."
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But I could never come up with a way to make sense of how the extended summer and winter seasons impact the economy, in part because he doesn't really explain how crop life cycles are impacted by this — and, of course, it's a made-up story about dragons and ice monsters, so at a certain point, worrying about the biology of staple grains gets a bit beside the point.
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While Frecon has talked about the way her use of red has evolved into "earth reds or red oxide colors" inspired by Pompeian frescos and the brilliant red found in Chinese wax seals and paper lanterns, among many other things, it seems to me that it is beside the point to make a connection between her red and violet palette, not to mention the half-moon shape in "lantern" or "noh," to Chinese art.
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The New York Times editorial board on Wednesday argued that President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's mental stability is "beside the point" and that a medical degree is not required to see "what is wrong" with the president.
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From the smashing -- literally -- debut of the US against Thailand, the 13-0 blowout that some called excessive and others deemed powerful, to Rapinoe's battle with the man who sits in the Oval Office, the fact that some of the best soccer in the world is being played, that Sweden beat Germany in the quarterfinals, that France battled back against the US with the greatest of hearts and legs, and that millions are watching all of it is almost beside the point.
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And while the platform offers some constraints on how advertisers can target people against sensitive interests — not allowing advertisers to exclude users based on a specific sensitive interest, for example (Facebook having previously run into trouble in the US for enabling discrimination via ethnic affinity-based targeting) — such controls are beside the point if you take the view that Facebook is legally required to ask for a user's explicit consent to processing this kind of sensitive data up front, before making any inferences about a person.
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What unites these divergent strains in Manzoni's Lines and Materials is their reliance on the artist's hand: his work is not an exercise in the nebulous freedom of everything-is-art; something becomes an artwork only when he does something to it, whether it is putting his signature on a human body, or arranging a grid of whitened bread rolls inside a meticulously crafted shadowbox frame, or encasing a paper scroll in a tube whose label states its contents as "A LINE […] MADE BY PIERO MANZONI" The obsessive precision with which he manipulates his objects isolates and heightens their inherent properties, edging them into a platonic realm and rendering the border between art and life at once decisive and beside the point.
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