Word: offhand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simply have underestimated the sensitivity of the nerves he touched by making even an offhand reference to bringing Harvard ROTC back to life--especially by suggesting that ROTC was a casualty of excessive political pressure and not of genuine academic, moral, and political concerns of the Faculty and students...
...would caution President Bok that most of the University is likely to oppose yesterday's offhand suggestion, some more militantly than others. He is treading in extremely dangerous water. He should swim to shore before September...
...give it a kind of ruptured vitality. Director Yorkin's movies, like Start the Revolution Without Me, are chipper but erratic even at their best. Thief vacillates between unhurried suspense and the kind of comedy that is so subdued it seems almost cursory. Yorkin's genially offhand style makes the movie look a little like a TV pilot that got out of control...
...their stylized plastic masks and they do so with considerable cleverness. Only John McMartin as Dion Anthony has difficulty finessing his way through the surrealistic script. The New Phoenix's leading lady. Katherine Helmond, does well in the role of Margaret, and Marilyn Sokol is fine as Cybel, although offhand it's difficult to picture how an Earth Mother should be. Best of all is John Glover as Billy Brown. Quick and versatile, the play's few moments of glory...
Daume's offhand remarks resembled a flurry of low blows. Olympic historians can recall no precedent for a ban, real or threatened, against a competitor on the grounds that he had a police record. Several U.S. sportsmen argued that Hunter, as a convict on the road to rehabilitation through sport, might set a better example to youth than some Olympic athletes who have never been in jail but are known not to be paragons of virtue...