Although nominally important, he was actually a peripheral figure by 1941.
To date, only peripheral figures have been tried or convicted for the attacks.
The strongest cases the federal government has made are against peripheral figures.
I mean this is not a case where she was a peripheral figure.
Until then, she had been a peripheral figure in art whose work was more admired than acclaimed.
Events seem to have rendered her hero, if not irrelevant, than at least a peripheral figure.
He has pretty much stayed forgotten, and even within 19th-century American art he is a peripheral figure.
He has gone from a peripheral figure to Chelsea's main man.
He then became a peripheral figure at the club, until his retirement in 1911.
The good reputations of even peripheral figures were suddenly at stake.
