minor figure

I felt like a minor figure in a major tragedy.

I slipped minor figures from early books into later ones.

Today Newton appears to have been a very minor figure.

Whether music history will dismiss him as a minor figure who got lucky in the 1950's remains to be seen.

He would have been a minor figure in Australia's political history but for the events that followed his sudden death.

Many of Kennedy's older relatives were minor figures in the machine.

The exhibition casts a few minor figures in bit parts.

Those who think Popper a relatively minor figure are likely to take a different view.

These men were all important, but we are also introduced to a multitude of minor figures.

Even the most minor figures are described in meticulous detail.

A lift boy or another minor figure can suddenly be quite startling."

The Vietnamese believe they are minor figures in our government who have no authority, and can only "make demands."

Many women took to them because they covered minor figure flaws and were practical for traveling.

One of its minor figures got rich selling shoes to the Turkish army, for example.

An influential political player in the early 1990s, Lalonde is now considered a very minor figure.

Minor figures also associated with this term include the following:

Though scholars now recognize her importance, she was a minor figure in biblical accounts.

But Dostoyevsky grants all his minor figures the right to be major for a time.

Most of the rest deals with minor figures and faction fights.

Canadian historians have treated Arnold as a relatively minor figure.

But all the main ones had fled, and those known to have been detained appeared to be relatively minor figures.

Whoever succeeds him is bound to seem a minor figure by comparison.

Or was he merely put out because he had become a minor figure in a major adventure?

Rob Roy was in reality a minor figure, known best as a cattle thief.

Even this film's many minor figures are sharply drawn.