They do have a tangential relationship, but this scenario - the work we publish in the Neighborhood and now the book - suggests that the medium isn't the message.

But equally prominent in many shops are things that may bear only tangential relationships, if any, to the museum's character or its holdings.

There was so little to begin with, he had no choice but to contact or recontact everyone who had had even the most tangential relationship with the man.

But if you pay close attention, you begin to notice that Bush's answers have a more than ordinarily tangential relationship to the questions he is asked.

It was a point of honour that the question voted on should bear only a tangential relationship to the matter debated.

They suffuse scenes with sound images that sometimes bear only the most tangential relationship to the things they bring to life - and often, not even that.

Some celebrities have a more tangential relationship.

The foreset laminae of tabular cross-beds have curved laminae that have a tangential relationship to the basal surface.

Yet some of the measures under consideration have, at best, a tangential relationship to the electricity shortage in California.

"Our high school curricula are locked into an industrial age that may have only a tangential relationship to the information age," he said in an interview.