Word: offhandedly
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...author is considerably more circumspect when it comes to Shawn, who "has become famous by eschewing fame and is today one of the best-known unknown men in the country." As self-effacing as Ross was extraverted, Shawn's best-known and perhaps only offhand mot was uttered to a young "Talk" reporter: "Go out and mill...
...women described either a violence and hostility on the part of their attacker, or a casual matter-of-factness. It is this matter-of-factness toward rape that is most terrifying, and is the same attitude that women who have been raped later encounter in the law process. The offhand comment the rapist makes to one women hitchhiker--"It's all part of the fun of hitchhiking"-- finds its counterpart in the California juror who last week dismissed entirely Inez Garcia's outrage and fear and disgust at her alleged rapist: "He was just trying to show her a good...
...many Senators would stand by the President? Haig wondered. No more than twelve or 15, Goldwater estimated. Returning to the meeting, the former presidential candidate was even more pessimistic. He said he doubted that Nixon could get more than nine votes, and if pressed, he could only name offhand two certainties: Curtis and South Carolina's Strom Thurmond. It became obvious at the meeting that Nixon had hopelessly lost the Republican leaders he needed for survival, including Goldwater and Tower. General agreement was reached that Nixon should be informed of his grave predicament in the Senate and that...
...style is offhand. California hip rather than Gotham sophisticate, and four-letter words stud her rap. She avoids high-fashion designer clothes, prefers casual wear such as blue jeans, pants and sweater outfits, often teamed with a crazy hat and tennis shoes. She does not own a shred of underwear -just a head...
...State's Attorney Edward Hanrahan, who was accused - and acquitted - of conspiring to obstruct justice in inves tigating the facts of the police raid, in which the killings were presented as "self-defense." Arlen surrounds his tri al narrative with the atmospherics of Chicago. But it is mostly offhand, as if Arlen knows, as the reader knows, that Mike Royko has done Richard Daley better and Norman Mailer got Chica go down much better five years...