Sentence examples for a passing reference to from inspiring English sources

Emmett wasn't making just a passing reference to the catastrophe that hit New Orleans in 2005.

He also makes a passing reference to the shooting of Mr. Sterling.

That's a passing reference to the fact that Fuller was born blind.

His application did not contain so much as a passing reference to the Disaster.

Isn't it customary, in circumstances like these, to make at least a passing reference to the father?

A passing reference to Harry's childhood brush with mortality turns his near-drowning into a near-collision with a truck.

There was a brief reference in favour of combating Aids and not much more than a passing reference to the Middle East.

One hears a cavalier mot about Moss Hart's "nervous breakdown" and a passing reference to one of Coward's own (out of, reportedly, two).

And Hollywood's first two-part biography thus emerges as a unique accomplishment.It is hard to review Part II without a passing reference to Part I.

There is almost no similarity to "Twelve Angry Men," although there is a passing reference to Henry Fonda's role as a juror in that film.

"Greg the Bunny," a new midseason show on Fox set backstage at a children's show, had a passing reference to a suicide bomber.