Alex Kurtzman

What your character does for a living is one of the most important choices you can make in a screenplay, even if their job is tangential to the story, because it tells you everything about the condition of their life. Are they doing what they love? Are they doing what they hate?

American Director

James Veitch

The marooned friend is one of the best-known scams, principally because it's the one that dodges the spam filter most often. It comes from someone you know but often only tangentially. It's since become - hands down - one of my favourite scams.

British Comedian

Chelsea Peretti

Working on 'Parks' was like heaven because everyone there was just intimidatingly intelligent and funny, and we would have these hilarious debates about really tangential things. It was inspiring because I felt really challenged to be my best.

American Comedian

Thomas Haden Church

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

American Actor

Sarah Steele

People who come to 'The Country House' are like, 'You're on 'The Good Wife' now.' But I've been on since the second season! I feel that the interest in the children in that series is almost tangential.

American Actress

Jared Cohen

Essentially, it's not that technology or cyberspace is some parallel universe that operates tangentially from the world we know; it is simply a new front in the international system.

American Businessman

Josh Gondelman

The modern ease of catfishing has had the tangential effect of growing a cottage industry of websites offering the services of fake Internet girlfriends.

American Author

Paolo Bacigalupi

I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.

American Writer

Tony Judt

At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was.

British Historian

Alfred Jarry

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

French Writer

Use 'tangential' when mentioning details that connect to the topic in an indirect way.

Slightly Related

'Tangential' should be avoided when a clear, direct point is required.

Avoid in Focus

'Tangential' can indicate someone is steering a conversation away from the main topic.

Conversation Steer

In mathematics, 'tangential' has a precise definition and should not be used loosely.

Math Precision

'Tangential' in geometry emphasizes the point of contact without intersecting.

Not Crossing

In physics, 'tangential' relates to motion that is perpendicular to the radial direction.

Direction Matters

'Tangential' often comes up in discussions about objects moving in circles.

Circular Motion

 there's something there so that's what I call when you see things that are tangential or relative to what your problem is that's what I call morsels of permission you look for little morsels and bits and bobs here and you start to pull those together and put them all into a pile and that's your end solution so I invited all these brilliant people to my house people way smarter than

Making the impossible...

 my job was to make sure the spacecraft kept running you know by the way if I had any time I would I was the photographer as well I was the guy stuck with the camera it was a tangential job