One professor we spoke to described practitioners, casually but with some confidence, as people who earned "elephant salaries" despite having done less well at school.
Here a screw tapered to a point, carrying a slotted head and looking very familiar except for its left-handed thread, is described so casually as to suggest that it was a common article.
He described himself, casually, as "a lil bit of this and a lil bit of that". I don't know what he thought about me after all those years of trying to "witness" to him, of being judgmental about petty teenage taboos like swearing and smoking.
But in France, it could describe the casually stylish gangster movies of Jean-Pierre Melville.
But the man, whom Ms. Botsch described as looking "casually nice," with black pants and a black long-sleeve shirt, was not there.
Because I myself have been casually described as "exotic" so many times, I feel, in a vague way, that I own the word.
There is no formula for defining a recession, even though it is often casually described as two consecutive quarters of economic contraction.
I later filmed my young friends in a playground on roundabouts and swings as they casually described how much fun it was to set fires.
Mr. Thirupathi casually described how, in his guerrilla days, his troops killed not just "class enemies" like the landlords, but also tribals – the very people for whom Maoists claim to be fighting.
That means different approaches to three elements: the opposition, the government and aid.The opposition, casually described as "the Taliban", is far from a unified force in a country of great ethnic complexity.
