beside the point vs sententious

beside the point

adj
  • Irrelevant, moot. 

adv
  • Irrelevantly, off-topic. 

sententious

adj
  • Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise. 

  • Tending to use aphorisms or maxims, especially given to trite moralizing. 

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