Sentence examples for innocuous remark from inspiring English sources

For that innocuous remark, the Sabres received a warning telephone call from the league office.

Of course, she has every right to make what was, in fact, a fairly innocuous remark.

Most dramatic moment: my friend Nick Clegg being handbagged after his actually rather innocuous remark at The Observer fringe meeting.

Most accounts lost the "a bit," making an obvious and innocuous remark sound like a defeatist whine).

The early dollar sell-off yesterday was touched off, currency analysts said, by an apparently innocuous remark on Sunday by Treasury Secretary John W. Snow.

He is so conscious of his own rogue image that even an innocuous remark about his appearance can set him off.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 27 — It was an innocuous remark, really, but the Mets wasted no time twisting Jimmy Rollins's words into motivational origami.

"Oh, she'll be horrified I said that," she likes to mutter, nodding towards a PR woman, after even the most innocuous remark.

If only Dick and Lynne Cheney were as indignant over the tragedy of more than 1,000 American soldiers killed and thousands wounded in Iraq as they are over an innocuous remark by Senator John Kerry concerning their daughter Mary, I would feel much better about just what the top priorities of our vice president are.

Susan Itelson Davis, Calif., Oct. 15, 2004 • To the Editor: If only Dick and Lynne Cheney were as indignant over the tragedy of more than 1,000 American soldiers killed and thousands wounded in Iraq as they are over an innocuous remark by Senator John Kerry concerning their daughter Mary, I would feel much better about just what the top priorities of our vice president are.

But it seems incredibly obvious what really happens here (especially if you also read the LA Times report): Obama makes an innocuous remark; the audience sees the potential for it to be interpreted in an off-colour way; they laugh; Obama realises the problem, and then heavy-handedly goes on about push-ups for a couple more sentences in an effort to reinforce the point that that's what he meant.