Sentence examples similar to an offhand compliment from inspiring English sources

"Oh, Russia," I said in an offhand voice.

It was an offhand way of phrasing a seismic shift.

Mullen, a former Marine Corps colonel, has an offhand, ironic manner.

Just a casual question, an offhand remark, as it were.

"Often there's an offhand quality to the work".

It was an offhand comment, and obviously true.

During that lunch someone made an offhand put-down of Britten.

In the hothouse atmosphere of the experimental theater, Mr. Koutoukas adopted an offhand credo.

They were often told in an offhand manner, seemingly without any calculation.

For fall he has taken army khaki and made it an offhand companion to Paris tailoring.

In conversation, she projects authority with an offhand grace.