Word: offhandedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett,-and this is no offhand complimentary letter that I shall write . . . and there a graceful and natural end of the thing . . . In this addressing myself to you-your own self, and for the first time, my feeling rises altogether. I do, as I say, love these books with all my heart-and I love...
...only your rate of tariffs which operates to discourage other countries' exports to you, but your complicated custom laws and your absurd methods of customs appraisal . . . The offhand way in which Arthur Motley brushed off this issue suggests that he does not realize that this is really the crux of the problem of two-way trade between Britain and the U.S. I believe that lecturing so complacently to the British under these circumstances is the sort of thing that can give your well-intentioned countrymen a reputation for brashness...
...Offhand, nobody would take Bill Williams for a poet, much less an avant-garde one. He looks like a doctor, talks like a doctor and slaps his knee like a doctor. Whenever there is a conflict between his medicine and poetry, medicine comes first. A man, says Bill Williams, has to respect his vocation...