Word: offhandedly
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...Paul Hutchinson was a rare and happy man; he knew what he wanted to do, and he had the talent to do it with offhand distinction. A minister of the Methodist church, Paul Hutchinson brought the lively and articulate intellect of an exceptionally able journalist to his selected task: "Communicating and commending the Christian Gospel to this age." He was still vigorously communicating when he died last Sunday in Beaumont, Texas of a ruptured aorta...
...records middle-and upper-class conversation with comic precision. And he is presented as a descendant of that Captain Jenkins about whose ear a war was fought in the 18th century.* By this ancestry, Author Powell indicates that great events are to be set in motion by his apparently offhand trivia...
Faced with specifics like these, Congress may find it difficult to get away with an offhand opposition to the phrase "longterm foreign...
Harlow Curtice-what an astounding selection ! Just offhand, I can name a hundred likelier choices, among them Eisenhower, Khrushchev, Dulles, the Pope, Schweitzer and Sibelius. I regard your choice as a cowardly surrender to your business office, and I will never read your magazine again...
...meeting of Scripps-Howard editors in Washington last April, Editor Roy Howard dropped an offhand remark. "In July," said he, "I'll be with the outfit 50 years." After he left the room, somebody spoke up: "We ought to do something about this." They talked to young (35) Board Chairman Charles Scripps, who decided to give Roy a big surprise party. To Roy Howard, when he stepped into the Pavilion Caprice of Cincinnati's Netherland Plaza hotel one night last week, it was indeed a surprise...