non-central

It was one of my favorite recurring (but non-central) themes in Monster, and he also uses food in Pluto as a way of bringing to mind the inhumanity/humanity of the various robots therein.

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In both cases the non-central character does not appear again in the novel.

On Prologues Hal Duncan 2009

Example: Say ump hundred, umpty-ump, umpteen or ump years ago, non-central character X unleashes the Dark Lord or steals the MacGuffin Device, only to be Horribly Killed immediately for their Terrible Folly, leaving aforesaid Dark Lord/MacGuffin Device loose in the world to create merry havoc.

On Prologues Hal Duncan 2009

It is possible that the quadrapole moment of the sun, although its effects are barely measurable on the orbit of Mercury (it is some 50 times smaller then relativistic effects) might cause instability to occur over long periods of time because it yields a non-central force.

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I mean, if non-central character X * was* going to reappear that means you can bring the backstory in quite smoothly — in flashback or reported thought — when they show up.

On Prologues Hal Duncan 2009

The non-central characters, by contrast, are wonderful, pitch-perfect creations – particularly the multitude of oddballs with whom Amy is sent to work in the dataprocessing basement, from the nameless man with an assortment of rutting comicbook figurines on his desk to Dougie and his tales of dating women with nosebleeds who eventually have to have the exsanguinating organ removed because of tumours.

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As for importance, Kaufmann devotes a good deal of his analysis of Nietzsche to discussing it, far more so than a non-central feature of his philosophy would merit.

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As for importance, Kaufmann devotes a good deal of his analysis of Nietzsche to discussing it, far more so than a non-central feature of his philosophy would merit.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Was Ayn Rand the Most Influential Russian Immigrant to the United States? 2009

Second, there appear to be cross-modal effects in perception, which would tell against encapsulation relative to non-central systems.

Modularity of Mind Robbins, Philip 2009

Another example, though, is the development of a distributed non-central type of intelligence in colonies and plants.

God, Strings, Emergence, and the Future of the World By Nicola Hoggard Creegan William Harryman 2009