Though irrelevant to our story, this short digression may serve to illustrate the Arcadian simplicity of habits prevailing in these mountainous districts, and affords one more illustration of the axiom, not more trite than true, that human enjoyment and luxury are all comparative.

To the mind under spell of an aesthetic or emotional appeal, the steps that went to make it, the stages whereby the author passed, are as irrelevant as the logarithms that went to build an aeroplane.

It would have been irrelevant for me, perhaps, to suggest to my colleagues the extinction of that committee.

He would interrupt the gravest discussion with some light jest; and yet, perhaps, not quite irrelevant in ears that could understand it.

"They seem rather irrelevant at times," he admitted, with a smile.

Under this gigantic antiphony the motor-car raced along, curiously small and irrelevant on that empty country road.