(You're living large if your casual weight-loss goal is a cool trillion).
Pack light-weight, casual clothes with several shorts and swimsuits.
The air of casual intimacy threw some weight behind her claim, even if home was a rather distant proposition.
The Dries Van Noten show was built on a premise of opposites: wintry-looking coats, but in gauze-weight fabrics; casual pants with formal jackets; and materials like raw silk that seemed an unlikely fit with the Belgian designer's inspiration in 1970s street culture.
Turner, a working actor of local renown, found himself in contact with a legend whose way of life had become surprisingly ordinary but whose personality retained its grandeur, whose every casual remark resonated with the weight of a past that was populated by potentates and geniuses and by fierce conflicts — intimate, public, and historical.
You might feel, as I do, that "Fair Extension," the deal-with-the-Devil story in "Full Dark, No Stars," is too glib and casual to bear the moral weight it aspires to, but it seems almost rude to say so.
Casual (resting) BP, waist circumference, weight and height were measured by the physician at each visit.
The diagnosis of NODAT was based on one of the following criteria: symptoms of diabetes (classic symptoms of diabetes include polyuria, polydipsia, and unexplained weight loss) plus casual plasma glucose concentration ≥200 mg/dL (11.1 mmol/L); fasting plasma glucose ≥126 mg/dL (7.0 mmol/L); or use of antidiabetic medication.
92 These are (1) symptoms of diabetes such as polyuria, polydipsia or unexplained weight loss plus casual (random) plasma glucose concentration ≥200 mg/dL or (2) fasting plasma glucose ≥126 mg/dL or (3) plasma glucose ≥200 mg/dL at 2 hours during a standard oral glucose tolerance test.
They may have retired, moved to a more casual job, gained or lost weight, or simply decided that an item wasn't their style or pace.
This spare, meticulous novel opens out like a poem, its deceptively casual images bearing a universe of weight.
