Word: offhandedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Jane Reis (rhymes with geese) of Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., is scarcely able to write her own name, but she had 16 "poems" published last week in the Saturday Review of Literature. Her mother had jotted down Jane's offhand utterings, proudly showed them off to friends. Professor Lionel Trilling of Columbia pronounced them good, got SRL interested. Sample...
...dropped by a commercial sponsor. This comes from a network whose president not many months ago brandished an accusing finger at American broadcasters for permitting advertising excesses and thereby contributing to "bad radio." Yet, I'affaire Shirer--the most dangerous form of advertising excess--is excused in an offhand manner by that same radio chain...
...Offhand, I would say that Mr. Remarque is in the 50s, since he wrote so ably a good many years ago of the First World War, in his All Quiet on the Western Front. Our football stars, who average 28, were either born during the last stages of the First World War, or shortly thereafter. Certainly they are not contemporaries of Mr. Remarque...
...movie is a smooth, stagy, offhand treatment of a worrisome subject. Mentally, June is plainly a very sick girl-if not definitely off her trolley. Yet everyone in the cast treats her as if she were merely indulging a fit of the sulks. Old Dr. Lionel Barrymore, a psychiatrist this time, is called in briefly for a diagnosis, but he is not really turned loose on June's case. She is allowed to run around with her dangerous father-fixation-messing up Miss Colbert's love life and attempting suicide-until she catches a young...
...offspring of the "America First Committee" of pre-war isolationist renown, it has sought in the November elections to keep out of office "Quislings" who "pretend to be friends to all, particularly the working man, but actually take orders from, or collaborate with those enemies of our government." This offhand indictment of all who look red or alien foreshadows a resurgence of nineteenth century foreign policy...