Word: off-the-cuff
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...careless off-the-cuff remark," the editor says. "He didn't mean to be intimidating...
...think they are too important to give an immediate, off-the-cuff, superficial response to," says Wilson...
Rather than using remarks "manufactured by media consultants," Silber said that he writes his own speeches and often speaks off-the-cuff--a practice which sometimes lends itself to misinterpretation...
...when Levine discusses in his epilogue the modern dilemma of stratified culture that he appears least historical and seems to be writing off-the-cuff. (Although a majority of the work was delivered by Levine at Harvard in his 1986 Massey Lectures in the History of American Civilization, the rest of Highbrow/Lowbrow nonetheless adheres to a bookish, historical style.) In the epilogue, which includes the umpteenth rebuttal to the moral philosopher Allan Bloom, Levine effectively calls for an appreciation of all cultures...
...Bush signs provided by the campaign lie unused on the ground. Some campaign officials wanted to stage the rally indoors, but Lanny Griffith, the Southern coordinator, insisted on palm trees and the gulf as the appropriate TV backdrop. Bush has only an outline to speak from, and his off-the-cuff remarks are off the mark: "I know I have the commitment of the innate honesty and decency of the United States...