Word: off-handedly
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...large part of the reason he found himself lonely. Although Harvard was rapidly becoming a national university, the school remained largely a bastion of New England patricians: some sort of social contact in Boston was still the prerequisite for invitations to many of the formal affairs in Cambidge. His off-hand friendliness could only elicit a put-off from the many who found him amusing, but avoidable. As one of his more genteel classmates expressed it, Jack didn't know the difference "between cricket and non-cricket...
...Austen world of garden parties and social proprieties. The contrast of Pinter's parallel stories preserves that envy, for the 19th-century drama features powerfully driven characters whose passions are strong enough to shred apart their lives. The story of the 20th century, on the other hand, concerns the off-hand affair between the two leads, Anna and Mike, during the shooting of the film--a cheap and superficial encounter. The present world is too comfortable, the emotions somehow counterfeit...
...masquer, just doesn't seem to have the stamina to stick to one style and wring out its musical worth, but must nomadically migrate to a new brand of music and a new "persona" on each album to amuse his audience. This kind of analysis, aside from its off-hand assumption that a popular musician always changes for commercial and not for evolutionary reasons, also treats with bland ignorance the musical development of Bowie's last three albums. With Brian Eno's aid. Bowie built a triptych of immense proportions, charting sonic territories for a new generation of musicians...
...strong: situational comedy. The first act drags a bit, but both second and third build to those frenzied, crowded scenes into which Kaufman is always tossing one more character. Both Cantor and Sam Samuels as Wolfe, the family's agent, have a knack for comic timing, and Wilber drops off-hand insults like time-bombs. Jeffrey Horwitz and Mario Aieta, as the men in the actress's lives who are forever barred from understanding their calling, receive no help from the script, and achieve correspondingly little success...
Young's stylishly off-hand manner and occasional irreverance brought frequent applause from students, but he said little new about U.S. foreign policy...