Much of his work is chaotic and distorted by tangent obsessions. From LearnThat.org. [Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983) American playwright]
However, a tangent is also a powerful tool if used with skill. From Wordnik.com. [Let's talk tangents] Reference
An argument can be made, but I think that the tangent is a bit too subtle for this discussion. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny and a Book] Reference
End of tangent from the theme of the thread, I hope. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Two Thirds of Americans Cannot Name Even One Supreme Court Justice] Reference
The “Jebediah Whateley” tangent is completely gone. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Version 1.1 is ready!] Reference
The tangent is a side road that was not on your original plot map. From Wordnik.com. [NaNoWriMo Workshop – Plot « Write Anything] Reference
A tangent from a previous question: What's the one piece of music you never get tired of hearing?. From Wordnik.com. [Question of the Day] Reference
Following a tangent, is it just poker, or are Indian-Americans also underrepresented at the blackjack table?. From Wordnik.com. [Where Are All the Indian Poker Players? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
The word tangent comes from a Latin word tangens. From Wordnik.com. [Let's talk tangents] Reference
Generally, the word tangent isn't good to hear during a critique. From Wordnik.com. [Let's talk tangents] Reference
We give you a variety of portfolios you can choose called tangent portfolios. From Wordnik.com. [phillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed] Reference
There are two significant ways we apply the word tangent when we shoot and critique images. From Wordnik.com. [Let's talk tangents] Reference
A circle of cork, with a point of the cork standing from it like a tangent, is smeared with oil, and thrown upon. From Wordnik.com. [Note XII] Reference
The tangent was a response to others who injected the SCOTUS decision into this article on money raised prior to that decision. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
Mr. GOODWIN: He has to be someone, he's at a kind of tangent to society. From Wordnik.com. [Novelist Highlights The Rich Flavor Of Old Istanbul] Reference
The line will have three kinds of stations, intermediate, "tangent," and terminal ones. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference
I know this was a little off topic, is just than when you wrote: it just triggered that kind of tangent …. From Wordnik.com. [How to Spread Your Ideas | Write to Done] Reference
I think I mentioned above that even when the main story arcs are completed, there are some "tangent" books I'd like to write. From Wordnik.com. [Q & A] Reference
If you look on your original coil the square edge isn't "tangent". From Wordnik.com. [All Discussion Groups: Message List - root] Reference
Daley described its turn to focus on live music as a "tangent," saying that visitors "go down there for 12 days for food and beverages. From Wordnik.com. [Taste Of Chicago Will Stay Free This Year] Reference
On the instant, my thoughts went off at a tangent. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
She started off, as it seemed to me, at a tangent. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
The radical axis becomes the tangent to the circle. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion.] Reference
"For the simple reason -- What got you off on this tangent?". From Wordnik.com. [Attrition] Reference
Then, drawing the tangent at F, we set off in the same manner. From Wordnik.com. [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference
Let O B be tangent at O to the arc O D, of which C is the centre. From Wordnik.com. [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference
Somebody veers off on to a tangent that I don't happen to agree with. From Wordnik.com. [Ask Amy: The Art Of The Graceful Comeback] Reference
I watch as they develop an equation for the line tangent to this tree. From Wordnik.com. [Constant Blinds] Reference
GROSS: Now, I want to just take a little sidestep here, into a tangent. From Wordnik.com. [Waylon Jennings: An Outlaw Opens Up Musically] Reference
Forces, instead of the earth going off at a tangent in the direction of. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
A sector of a circle; a line tangent to a circle; a semicircle; centre of. From Wordnik.com. [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference
But his brother gave no heed and, much to Augustus 'relief, went off at a tangent. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars are on a tangent with Alpha Centauri at the farthest point. From Wordnik.com. [Unexpected Flying Objects] Reference
What is the focus of a perpendicular on the tangent of an ellipse from any external point?. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion.] Reference
It's just a period where in England where history has taken this tangent that he came up with. From Wordnik.com. [Director Mark Romanek Tackles 'Never Let Me Go'] Reference
I, a student of Girtham College, blush to own that my thoughts very often fly off at a tangent. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion.] Reference
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