Word: offhandedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...borders of affluence and gratuitous soul-searchings. His proposition is pretty much a remedy for boredom--his own, and that of us who bother to take the train-rides with him. For what Paul Theroux writes about is little more than what Paul Theroux sees. His style unobjectionable and offhand. Theroux finds little more to say than what is most obvious. And that in itself can be entertaining especially if it's what you pick up a book...
Armani's cunning blends of invention and convention are seemingly offhand but ultimately tough to miss. The reason is that he has been instrumental not only in working out what people want to wear but in changing their attitudes about it. His clothes-even the ones with those damn airborne initials-are a kind of congenial tutorial in the applied science of emphatic understatement. He has educated the eye and eased the conscience by giving a new grace to informality. There may be nothing democratic about high fashion (consider those price tags), but Armani's design ideas suggest...
Harvard should be commended for its effort in working with citizens on this project, and we certainly hope that this effort will continue to be made. Just offhand, it is not clear to an ordinary person how this tremendous complex must await the destruction of these two little buildings in one corner of the large space, since they are to be replaced only by a little park and a parking space for a half-dozen cars on so. Laurence Wylie Dillon Professor Civilization of France Emeritus
...Just offhand, it is not clear to an ordinary person how this tremendous complex must await the destruction of these two little buildings...
...reporter's question. A wave, a smile, a one-liner: just what the networks need. The great thing about such scenes is that though Reagan may have memorized what he wants to say to a question he knows will be asked, the line can be charitably judged as offhand in phrasing and thought, something that isn't really a formal statement of policy. And therefore frustrating, not alone to reporters, but to anyone who hopes for a clearer reading of the President's mind...