Word: offhandedly
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...case other readers should find no time to write, I submit an opinion that your TIME differed with parliamentarians and lexicographers when it chose to denote Mrs. Mary Norton as chairlady [TIME, Aug. 7]. Offhand it is my impression that chairman is a title applicable to members of both sexes...
...other eminent legalists, in & out of the American Bar Association, have been making since long before the New Deal: that the administrative departments and independent agencies of the Government (notoriously the Federal Trade Commission in Republican days, the NLRB and SEC more lately) have compiled vast tomes of offhand, capricious rulings which have the force of law and from which there is no clear recourse...
...French (Paramount). Screwball comedy raised a few notches above average by the presence in the cast of three masters of offhand humor, Olympe Bradna (Stolen Heaven), Ray Milland (Three Smart Girls), William Collier Sr. (Madison Square Garden, The Bride Comes Home...
...John Dos Passos published a book on Spain, Rosinante to the Road Again, followed it five years later with one on his travels in the Near East, Orient Express. These random recollections of unconventional journeys were written in a glancing, impressionistic style, with characterizations of fellow travelers blending with offhand comments on politics and tag lines from overheard conversations...
...writers as opposed to amateurs, on the reasons for the egotism of actors, on the pernicious influence of Bernard Shaw on the English stage, on the excitement of rehearsals and the confused & troubling experience of first nights. Maugham's criticism is neither theatrical nor brilliant. It resembles the offhand observations that a busy artist might make to students whose abilities seem to him to be highly questionable...