"Would have been" always struck me as a silly phrase in reference to those who passed away.
Now while this has certainly been known to happen, fortunately, for all concerned, we do much, much more". That was a passing reference to her becoming, in the words of Esquire magazine, "..
Barth has an irritating habit of dropping in references to passing current events -- the Bosnian war, the Lewinsky affair, the millennium bug.
The following are the acts, and the subjects in reference to which they were passed.
His only mention of Trump came in passing, in reference to sanctions that Barr supported.
While some studies made significant inroads into the area of IB, a lot more just made references to it in passing.
The Labour manifesto outlined that "there is no more important part of the world for global security than the Middle East", but the 76-page document only mentions Iraq once in passing, with reference to defence spending.
Arendt, in fact, makes passing reference to a connection between Eichmann (her paradigm of banal evil) and Macbeth.
John Cheever appears only in passing and without reference to his bisexuality, which surfaced in Cheever's memoirs.
Ellis turns this on its head with Clay and Rain's relationship and throws in a passing reference to an imagined body found floating in a swimming pool, invoking the opening scene of Wilder's film.
Correction: October 20 , 2002 Sunday An article last Sunday about erotic photographs of food misspelled the name of a cosmetics company in a passing reference to the similarities between primping human models for fashion spreads and food for gastronomy magazines.
