The combat scenes (which take up most of the second half of the book) are often gruesomely dramatic, the incidental detail forensic.

After hours of scrutinising the paintings, sometimes through binoculars, he credits himself with spotting one previously unnoticed incidental detail.

There are times when this incidental detail threatens to crowd out the main narrative.

At any 'public' moment the cast dissolve into the spectacle, with the depressing result that their private anguish counts for little against the silliness of the incidental detail.

That she was eclipsed by her lesser-fancied stablemate was an incidental detail within a memorable day.

Although historically regarded as an incidental finding, the os acromiale may occasionally produce symptoms from subacromial impingement or instability at the site of non-union.

These conditions can be found in asymptomatic patients as an incidental finding, or can be so severe as to be life-threatening.

These harmless cysts are often picked up on scans as incidental findings.

They are most commonly found as an incidental finding on radiographs made for other reasons, but occasionally isolated fractures of the process itself may lead to its discovery.

Diagnostic imaging of endocrine organs may reveal incidental findings called incidentalomas, which may or may not represent disease.

The costs were not merely incidental but integral to the prosecution of the claim and were, therefore, recoverable against the defendants.

Yet the impression remains that the rugby was merely incidental to the grander occasion.

The ocean and the vessels were merely incidental to their banditry.

That travel was merely incidental to a business which took place in each state.

Thus, the discussion on substantial distinction between appointive and elected officials was not merely incidental, but was actually necessary for the determination of that case.