Appropriate
Appropriate adjective - Meeting the requirements of a purpose or situation.
Irrelevant
Irrelevant adjective - Not having anything to do with the matter at hand.
Usage example: irrelevant questions that merely disrupted the classroom lesson
Both words in one sentence
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The following scene, there's a brief shot of the marquee that states that the year is 1966, making the riot irrelevant to the plot (except to display the Civil Rights Movement that was appropriate for the era).
Source: Theatre / Dreamgirls -
In the Stephen Sondheim musical A Little Night Music, act II has a thematically appropriate but otherwise Irrelevant Act Opener by the chorus called "The Sun Won't Set", in which it stays twilight till around 11pm.
Source: Endless Daytime - Endless Daytime: Act II has a thematically appropriate but otherwise Irrelevant Act Opener by the chorus called "The Sun Won't Set", in which it stays twilight till around 11pm (because Act II takes place near the Arctic Circle during summer).
Source: Theatre / A Little Night Music
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