The phrase "a casual statement" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a remark or comment that is informal and not serious in nature.
Example: "During the meeting, he made a casual statement about the weather that lightened the mood."
Alternatives: "an informal remark" or "a relaxed comment".
Since they had just heard a description of her mother crying and shouting tearing off her shirt and bra in an airport, that was not a casual statement.
[Our films] propagate many aspects which are non-existent in their culture: family values, relationships, parents and children, brothers, sisters …" It's strong stuff, to declare family values non-existent in the west, but delivered with a tone of distant authority that renders it a casual statement of fact.
Before I became a nurse, I would often think to myself, "Man, how quickly time flies!" Ever since setting foot though those hospital doors, however, this generic sentiment that so many possess has evolved from a casual statement to a matter of urgency.
Firstly, we employed a cross-sectional design, which did not allow us to make any casual statements about the relationships between the variables investigated.
As Judge Pollack noted, "Blodget's casual statement in October 2000 that [a company's] product was a 'pos' [piece of sh_t], cannot be construed as inconsistent with the total message of his reports that there were significant concerns about the rollout and functionality of the product which could have a dramatic impact on the [company] stock price".
The conditions under which he lived in his cell in Theresienstadt, however, exact their toll; Gavrilo dies six months before the end of World War I. His seemingly casual statement becomes commitment.
"Brennan's colleagues learned to watch for the seemingly innocuous casual statement or footnote — seeds that would be exploited to their logical extreme in a later case," Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel wrote in a new biography of the justice to be published in October.
Penelope Boutique stocks fabulous frocks — from special occasion dresses to casual statement pieces.
The narrative moves from a set of broad strokes about character and scene, with throwaway moments and casual statements which sum up and analyse, to aphorisms about life and death and the mystery of time and God.
[T]o select casual statements from floor debates, not always distinguished for candor or accuracy, as a basis for making up our minds what law Congress intended to enact is to substitute ourselves for the Congress in one of its important functions". Schwegmann Bros. v. Calvert Distillers Corp., 341 U.S. 384, 395-396, 71 S.Ct.
A casual review of statements from Republicans running for president shows the idea of over-regulation has become an article of faith in the party.
