Word: off-handedly
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Choreography becomes mere posturing under such conditions, and for an act and a half there is off-hand posturing indeed. By and By, though, as the plot reduces the storage population and the runways are pressed into use for entrances and exits, the actors manage mobility. Only a few scampers and splits later, unfortunately, the tide rolls back in, and at play's end the chorus is left stranded, so many bunches of pastel seaweed with like possibilities of self-propulsion...
...they classify. It is unfair to claim that only a representative body can do justice, but it is doubtful that the boards in Mississippi, where no Negro sits on a draft board, or Chicago, where board members often do not live in the neighborhoods they serve, can avoid some off-hand bigotry. Besides, the prime argument for having local boards is that they are representative; that they will be more likely than a national board to know that opthamologists should be deferred in Alaska because people there often have eye trouble. By setting up some residence criteria and ordering...
Speaking before an audience, Scheer is not as obscene, off-hand, or ungrammatical as he is with two or three people; he considers even hostile questions for a long time and insists on giving complete answers. He is almost earnest, in fact, about what radicals can do in politics, and seems genuinely to care about "participatory democracy...
...strengthen Harvard's first doubles, Barnaby has teamed Gonzalez with Brian Davis, a powerful off-hand player with sharp volleys and lightning reflexes. Barnaby has tried this combination twice in team matches, but they may not have played together long enough to react in co-ordination like the Yale or Dartmouth pairs. Adelsberg and Kileff -- the slugger and the runner -- form Harvard's incongruous second doubles team...
...story is livelier on the screen, and some scenes, like Kay's climactic fight with Harold, are far more effective here than in McCarthy's off-hand prose. You may not particularly care about Priss's breast-feeding, Libby's ambitions, or Dottie's frustrations. but somehow the movie takes you in, gives you a sense of the comedy, the gossip, and finally the tragedy of the group's lives. I don't know if the group' reaction to communism, psychoanalysis, and sex is typical of the 30's but it seems right in the movie. The Group...