quite apart from

idiom

: without even taking into consideration

The work has value in itself, quite apart from the good effects it produces.

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But there was something else ominous about the speech, quite apart from any of its specific historical claims. —Damon Linker, The Week, 24 Feb. 2022

And quite apart from the risks of infectious disease, health has social as well as biological determinants. —Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 2023

Animals have value quite apart from our uses of them. —Matthew Scully, National Review, 2 Jan. 2023

What Sam Adams grasped was that these things could be imagined as symbolic outrages demanding symbolic revenge—the eighteenth-century equivalent of mask mandates, which infuriate people by their seemingly capricious insistence, quite apart from their actual burdens. —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022

But to overemphasize the challenge of Godard — quite apart from ignoring the fact that difficulty can be, in itself, something quite pleasurable — is to risk understating the sheer beauty and, at times, the tenderness of his work. —Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2022

So quite apart from the criminal investigation, there's an enormous interest in figuring out who had access to these. —ABC News, 28 Aug. 2022

His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security... flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant. —James Freeman, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022

Eggers has a whole set of influences, cinematic and otherwise, that are quite apart from Anderson's own, equally idiosyncratic array of sources. —Jesse Hassenger, The Week, 22 Apr. 2022

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