Word: causally
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...that in a superficial way the picture of Vienna in 1815 is accurate and at times interesting, and that during the last fifty pages, when Talleyrand and Mr. Cooper are relieved of the political onus, the pictures and phrasing acquire a new freshness. But to all save the most causal reader, this latest plunge into the mystery of Talleyrand is worthless; considered as an historical document, it offers practically nothing save a superficial rehash of secondary material; considered as biography, it loses all effectiveness in the morass of inexperience and slipshed, dull expression...
...performed the same operation success fully many times. This patient died. Dr. Gushing was puzzled. Autopsy showed extraordinary cracks and ulcers of the stomach. Three times during subsequent years, among thousands of successful cerebrotomies, did the same fatal conjunction of gastric ulcers and diencephalic tumors occur. Was there causal relation ship? Dr. Gushing has decided affirmatively...
From a perusal of this list of fines, the causal student of early Harvardian might assume that fiscal punishment was the only kind meted out to the unruly undergraduate. This was not the case, however, as evidently from the following law the President and Tutors were allowed to chastise the sinner...
...numerous scenes pitch through so many scattered periods of Clyde Griffiths' life that one is given the impression of snatchy revelations, skipped pages. Yet Patrick Kearney preserves with such care the causal sequence of the story that Mr. Dreiser's tragic skeleton, at least, is reproduced in true proportions. Morgan Farley throws himself wholeheartedly into the role of Clyde Griffiths, a poor boy who suffers the hard loneliness of being just beyond the pale of all for which he yearns. Unexpectedly, he discovers in Sondra Finchley, beautiful heiress, a sweetheart who will fulfill his dearest, vainest dreams...
...take long for the causal visitor to Geneva, during the Third League Assembly, in September 1922, to reach the obvious conclusion that the League is very much alive. In common with many other Americans, with whom the press and visitors' galleries in the Assembly Hall were literally packed, I attended the sessions of the Council, Assembly, and Commissions day by day for over a month, and came away strongly convinced that the League, far from being in any sense dead, had definitely come to stay in the world, and had a spirit behind it, embodied by such leaders as Lord...