beside the point vs hardened

beside the point

adj
  • Irrelevant, moot. 

adv
  • Irrelevantly, off-topic. 

hardened

adj
  • Unfeeling; pitiless; callous. 

  • Inured; toughened. 

  • Firmly established or unlikely to change; inveterate. 

  • Having extra defences against attack; highly fortified. 

How often have the words beside the point and hardened occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )