By the end, all "Birthday Girl" does is toss off a few sparks.
While the con jobs string John and us along, by the end all Jez Butterworth's noir does is "toss off a few sparks," Elvis Mitchell wrote in The New York Times.
When we update our status, we don't just toss off the update with a casual hack-hack-hack of the keyboard; we think before we type, pondering the effect of the status update on its potential readers, and pondering, also, its impact on our image.
This off-season, the Jets did not merely toss off the security blanket.
Ms. Jin speaks virtually no English, but her husband does, and he can toss off a pretty decent rendition of The Christmas Song, with its chestnut reference.
But did she have the right comic touch for Isabella, as well as the vocal agility to toss off Rossini's brilliant coloratura roulades?
Of course, he does about a third of the singing, and while doing it, he tosses off a version of "Everything Happens to Me" that may be the best rendition of this lovable self-pitying threnody ever tossed off.
One program worked by pretending to be paranoid; others have done well by tossing off one-liners that distract interlocutors.
The breathtaking richness (and occasional frustration) of her prose has to do with its feeling tossed off, without much care but with an almost Elizabethan vigor.
