Sentence examples for inconsequential remark from inspiring English sources

When the Australian foreign minister arrived here after the bombings in Bali to talk about terrorism, President Megawati Sukarnoputri greeted him with the kind of inconsequential remark expected from a protocol officer.

Ten years ago, advertisers considered them inconsequential, remarked Reed Phillips, a media investment banker.

Amid illegible words and inconsequential remarks about various possessions, she suddenly throws herself into an anguished apology: "I am sorry I tortured you and drove you mad.

Faced with the complexities of Middle Eastern politics, the impulse is to turn into Daily Mail-style taste police, patrolling the easier territory of each other's inconsequential remarks for signs of "inappropriate" behaviour.

He might address apparently inconsequential remarks to his family or his staff, or even to the yellow cat, while under his breath you could hear him preparing some Minute to the Chiefs of Staff Committee or speech to the House of Commons.

Mr. Malema's blustery remarks, then, might seem inconsequential.

In fact, in the case of Watson's remarks the words seemed inconsequential; the wooden horse of a very well-timed exercise in product placement around the premiere of her latest film.

Mr. Hatcher also includes some fleeting remarks to remind us just how inconsequential etiquette lessons seemed in 1967, not just to 10-year-olds — etiquette lessons always seem inconsequential to 10-year-olds — but to their older siblings in college.

They can be thrown off course by such inconsequential bits of data as applicants' compliments or remarks on arbitrary topics thus inadvertently undoing a lot of the work that went into establishing parameters for the job and collecting applicants' data.

Moulton was the focus of some dismissive remarks from Pelosi earlier this year, when she told Rolling Stone that he and Ohio's Tim Ryan were both "inconsequential".

But they seem inconsequential.