Showing me the card, he remarked casually that he hadn't looked at it for some time.
Douglas-Home showed the depth of his inexperience when he remarked casually that he used matchsticks to help him understand economic problems.
In Principia Ethica he remarked casually that we "hardly ever" think something good without having some attitude of will towards it, but he denied that this is true universally (131, 135-6).
An admirer of all things Eastern, he was also, Mr. Irwin remarks casually, "a complete lunatic".
Then Dorothea meets Will Ladislaw, Casaubon's young artist cousin, who remarks casually that the Key to All Mythologies is already out of date; Casaubon has not read "the Germans", who have done the work.
Goode remarks casually: "Sowerby's freshwater jellyfish, Craspedacusta sowerbyi, a native of tropical Central and South America which was first found in the wild in Britain in 1928 … has spread significantly since the 1990s and is now known from a number of urban canals from Exeter to Sheffield".
Each of them grew up, he remarks almost casually, with slightly different play names for the parts of a bleeding heart flower (fishhooks? shovels? whiskey bottle or Champagne?), as if this ran in every family.
All he had done was remark casually to a few top aides that he would like to see how work on the problem was progressing.
Julian Carsey, known as Jay, then the president of Charles County Community College in the corn-and-tobacco country of La Plata, Md., had his usual breakfast, said a polite goodbye to his wife, Nancy, told her that he was off to the dentist and remarked casually that he would see her later.
One student, learning that Achebe taught African literature, remarked casually that "he never had thought of Africa as having that kind of stuff".
