Sentence examples for casually adopting from inspiring English sources
"Look at me, kid," she says, casually adopting the Humphrey Bogart position.
We want to be able to describe our experience with gravity -- but casually adopting language of "religious privilege" denies religious experiences that aren't normalized in society, and can sever alliances with others subject to discrimination on religious grounds.
However, these casually adopted additions to his sound palette brought yet more criticism, and the formidably affronted saxophonist and broadcaster Benny Green wrote that "like a stopped clock, Coleman is at least right twice a day".
What happened in the years before he settled into school, and was casually adopted by his best friend's kindly English country family, haunts, corrodes, and quickens Filth's heart; Gardam's prose is so economical that no moment she describes is either gratuitous or wasted.
Stories of bodies found and loved ones lost have become so commonplace that the public has casually adopted the term "Highway of Tears" to refer to a stretch of Highway 16 between the northern towns of Prince George and Prince Rupert, in British Columbia.
It should be the same for the moniker casually adopted by Washington's professional football team.
And like many artists of his post-post-Duchampian generation he set out to remake it in his own style, not casually but by adopting all the discipline and can-do spirit that President John F. Kennedy summoned in his famous 1962 Moon speech.
In "Wonderland," he adopted a casually observational approach, filming the quotidian routines and mishaps of his characters with a hand-held camera as they struggle through the weekend, making a hash of their attempts to communicate with each other.
In the age of Paris and Britney, when the word "slut" is casually thrown around, and sometimes adopted as a badge of freedom, though usually not, such distinctions are as pertinent as ever.
All the while Paul was waiting and watching, and when the moment was right, casually asked if he could adopt the bird, in which case they agreed without a second thought.
