Word: offhands
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...such occasion Tommy Bilodeau came driving through the improvised enemy line with a quickness and a push that drew an offhand "Not Bad! Not bad!" from the busy coach. Then, seeing who it was and as if apologizing for expecting anything but top flight work from the Sophomore star, Harlow said with embarrassment "Oh! Sorry, Tom. Didn...
...Such was the tension of the times that a perfunctory, offhand remark of the President to the effect that commodity prices were not yet high enough sent reporters running to telegraph wires, sent Inflation headlines into the streets, sent stock-markets soaring for one hour last week...
...cannot tell Cleopatra to sit down twice in an offhand manner unless you really are Caesar. Warren Williams is not Caesar and Cleopatra is not "Egypt" and there is not enough art used to make the audience forget that. If, however, the audience is willing to overlook the irregal appearance of Claudette Colbert and the small town chattiness of Roman teaparties, the picture is a good spectacle. For sheer sensual spectacularity it would be hand to beat the scene where Anthony is first seduced. Food and wine, ballet and flowers with a final crescendo of the music and the solemn...
...grey hair is bobbed and waved, and her thin straight lips are carefully rouged, but the wife of the president of the Herald Tribune is anything but pliant. She moves slowly, speaks slowly in a voice which to a stranger sounds disinterested. But when she says in an offhand way "I think it would be nice if . . ." there is not an underling on her newspaper who mistakes it for anything but a command...
Articles and illustrations were as breezy as a college cheering section, as offhand and undocumented as a street-corner argument. William Hard, seasoned, voluble Washington correspondent and radio com mentator, wrote the leading piece on the Chiselers; very brisk and readable...