Word: offhand
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Wilder claims that "The Post" reporter blew to monstrous proportions an offhand remark he had made and said he'd just as soon decline comment on the whole business...
...midst of reassuring everyone else last week, President Truman popped a hobgoblin on U.S. businessmen. With an offhand gesture he appointed 42-year-old Leon Keyserling his chief seer on economic affairs...
...love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett,-and this is no offhand complimentary letter that I shall write . . . and there a graceful and natural end of the thing . . . In this addressing myself to you-your own self, and for the first time, my feeling rises altogether. I do, as I say, love these books with all my heart-and I love...
...only your rate of tariffs which operates to discourage other countries' exports to you, but your complicated custom laws and your absurd methods of customs appraisal . . . The offhand way in which Arthur Motley brushed off this issue suggests that he does not realize that this is really the crux of the problem of two-way trade between Britain and the U.S. I believe that lecturing so complacently to the British under these circumstances is the sort of thing that can give your well-intentioned countrymen a reputation for brashness...
...Offhand, nobody would take Bill Williams for a poet, much less an avant-garde one. He looks like a doctor, talks like a doctor and slaps his knee like a doctor. Whenever there is a conflict between his medicine and poetry, medicine comes first. A man, says Bill Williams, has to respect his vocation...