Word: off-handedly
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...following and are unlikely to have much impact on next March's elections, when France's Socialist-Communist coalition hopes to win power. Nonetheless, Socialist Party Chief François Mitterrand has promised to write a rebuttal to their views, which he says are "too important" for off-hand comment...
...announced another Telly Savalas rerun on late night TV. So they would seat themselves in Bentley's Tower room and wait. At the end of the news at eleven, Jack Cole (a neo-Byronic hero himself, with his own three-piece suits and tough guy act) would make some off-hand comment about the man with the lollipops and then Kojak would appear on the screen...
...number of individuals who have been asked to serve in some capacity on one of Carter's task forces is so large that no one in Atlanta, Washington, or Plains knows it off-hand...
...other literati are there. Still, he writes overwhelmingly about writers, and does so in a way that somehow seems cozy. He talks mostly about what the writers are like, but he tends toward the aphorism, hanging two-or three-word phrases on major literary endeavors and making lots of off-hand cultural references. He gives the impression of wanting at least in part to be the chronicler of the very circles he travels in, which, given that there must be more to culture than that, is unfortunate...
...willing to accept off-hand statements that it is so," Kenney said...