beside the point

������ ultimately happens to Rümeysa Öztürk is, in a certain sense, beside the point.

Quite the opposite: Of course this individual’s fate should matter to all of us, but what ultimately happens to Rümeysa Öztürk is, in a certain sense, beside the point.

������ is perhaps most original about “Mid-Century Modern,” though I may be missing some historical precedent, is that it’s a traditional sitcom, not just with a gay character or two but set primarily in a gay milieu, its subject friendship among gay men — which has the salutary effect of making that milieu at once the point and beside the point.

Addiction was really beside the point.

Whether Sotomayor, Denno, Antognini, or Gardner is correct seems to me a bit beside the point.