Sentence examples for airily from inspiring English sources

Last week, our ambition to compete in the global race was airily dismissed as a race to the bottom, that it means competing with China on sweatshops and India on low wages.

Viewers of the MCC v Rest of the World match on Fox Sports in Australia in July heard Andrew Strauss airily use the c-bomb to describe Kevin Pietersen.

Yelena Isinbayeva, the Russian pole-vaulter has airily dismissed past opponents for "talking too much".

If his words, or those similar comments made by senior Tories Philip Davies or Andrew Selous, were carelessly chosen it is because the speakers don't care about the people they're airily discussing.

Vaizey says he has not intervened because a few authorities have managed to reverse proposals for widespread cuts after a judicial finding against them; therefore, he airily asserts, campaigning works.

The Better Together camp were not to know the extent of the jitters among their opponents as Salmond airily dismissed their warnings in public.

When last week's scandal broke, Tesco chair Sir Richard Broadbent airily opined: "Things are always unnoticed until they are noticed".

Then, a little too free, he airily yorked himself.

The sociologist Bruno Latour warns us not to speak airily of "potential", reminding us that we have to actually do the work of bringing some state of affairs into being before we can know whether it was indeed a possible future state of the system – and also that work is never accomplished without some cost.

He rather airily promises to cut taxes, squeeze debt and the deficit, and bring spending down all a bit more eagerly than Mr Schröder does, though with no more precision.

Yet Mr Thaksin airily brushes such matters aside.The prime minister's supporters do not seem to care.