Sentence examples for idle comments from inspiring English sources

Idle comments become vaguely menacing threats.

We also draw on the idle comments of others that conform with our self-partial desires to serve as external justification of our immoral actions.

While the appellate judges have set aside time to talk about Jackson's misbehavior, to have the case turn on some idle comments would be far more foolish than the comments themselves.

The idle comment had an impact on Roberts, "edging me back into the closet".

Facebook has a service — the "sponsored story" — that converts a user's idle comment (or "like") about a product into an ad for that product that appears on friends' pages, Somini Sengupta writes.

But set amid a wealth of detail about mysterious factories, disturbing shipments, covert illicit finance and shared interests of "two of the world's most dangerous regimes"–by which he meant Iran and Venezuela it sounds like no idle comment.

This is not an idle comment.

When Steve Coll wonders if Obama would "set a hard deadline for Assad's departure and back it with force," it isn't idle speculation (Comment, July 1st).

Ordinarily, said Von Hoff, he would have dismissed these comments as idle friendly chatter and moved directly into a physical examination, but this information struck him as odd.

James is left to enjoy his idle moguldom and read comments from no one less than Isiah Thomas saying he should go to the Knicks, which is rather like Captain Edward Smith recommending a joyride on the Titanic.

Another day, we followed the despotic comments and idle comings and goings of a middle-aged Englishman — the island was heaving with English people — who kept up a kind of running commentary on the temperature, the sand, the wind, and the waves, speaking as emphatically and grandiloquently as if he were uttering a series of deep, long-pondered aphorisms.