Word: off-the-cuff
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Turning to Burton and laughing, Driskell says there are times when his off-the-cuff remarks would be better left unsaid...
...Some of his comments are kind of off-the-cuff, but that's just his personality," Darling says...
Harrison (daughter of novelist Jim Harrison) is something of an anomaly herself: a mystery writer who's not only literate and handy with a plot but possessed of a voice and a vision as well. Her off-the-cuff eloquence and easy sarcasm remind one of a small-town courthouse wit, loitering on the steps with a cigarette, flipping digs at starchy passersby. Her supporting characters and assorted suspects, from a snippety lady historian to a blowsy, big-boned social worker, aren't merely fictional head shots. They have body. Stuck way out on the windy plains together, their passions...
...Clinton is obsessed with the future, it may be because, when he becomes one of the youngest ex-Presidents, he can expect so much more. In off-the-cuff remarks at a late-night Houston fund raiser earlier this month, Clinton suddenly broke into a disquisition on the movie Amistad and the heroic role that John Quincy Adams played as an ex-President. One line about Adams seemed to have struck home with the current Chief Executive: "Is there anything as pathetic as an ex-President?" Clinton told the crowd, "I'll try to beat the odds...
...experience confirmed that comedy, far from being a series of off-the-cuff clever remarks, is a very serious art form," Fertik said...