Word: offhand
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...Japan's aristocracy] when I first attended. I particularly recall this episode when I was a small boy: I met him at a certain place, and he asked me, "How do you come to school when it rains?" And I was just a small boy, so I answered offhand, "I come by horse-drawn carriage." And Nogi said, "When it rains you must come here on foot wearing an overcoat." So he was advocating a very frugal, strenuous, self-disciplined life. That made a profound impression...
...Guide to the Colleges, which informed me that the Radcliffe woman "took everything seriously" and would, on returning home from a date, invariably "leave your ego in a little puddle by the door." (The guide was, of course, written for a male audience.) Another guide mentioned in an offhand way that "Radcliffe is, naturally, not a place for wallflowers...
...artist. No matter what the style, English art has never felt like American, and one of the differences has to do with sociability. Smith's work is quite conversational in its ease of style. Like Caro's or Hockney's, it is permeated with a casual, offhand rightness about material, color and meetings of shape, but it is not polemical. No proposition about the future of art is being shoved in one's face. Hence its unlikeness to New York painting in the '60s, to that clamor of nonnegotiable demands on the viewer...
...their secret fantasies. This portrait goes beyond the whore with the heart of gold. It even outdoes the traditional apology for prostitution--that hookers serve a valid social function by providing sexual and emotional services to men who can't find them anywhere else. Director Sgarro, in his offhand way, is suggesting that prostitution is a joyful business, marred only by those occasional raids by those mean, harrow-minded policemen who spoil all the fun. He's not remotely interested in the thousands of women who have turned tricks on 42nd Street for 5 bucks a shot, who have been...
...ROMAGNOLIS' TABLE. PBS, Sundays 7:00 p.m. E.D.T. For the viewer-cook inclined to split piselli, it must be said that Pa and Ma (Italian-born Franco and Irish-English Margaret) Romagnoli are a bit offhand. He says add a cup of vinegar, but what he does is slosh a slug of it into a wineglass, eye it with a shrug, and toss it in. A few Romagnoli dishes - hot Swiss chard with olive oil, spareribs and sausages mired in thick sauce - are the sort of thing only an Italian mama could love. But these are piffling objections. This...