Vice President-elect Mike Pence then took his turn castigating the captive press, gathered there for the rare opportunity to pose questions to the president-elect, who has shown a unique fear of or disdain for such press events and their off-the-cuff question and answer format.
In one meaningful rewrite Mr. Nelson flipped the order of those two off-the-cuff questions about President Obama's negativity and Mr. Romney's cynicism, posed by one of the siblings: the question about Mr. Romney now comes last.
Prepare a few "off the cuff" questions for each of them, about their business, their talk, or their career.
"Online Now" will help bring in more off-the-cuff, urgent questions that people ask on Twitter and Facebook because of their more real-time nature.
He and his blond girlfriend and their toddler daughter Holly hung out in their garden with us, answering questions off-the cuff.
It was an off-the-cuff mention, a question and then a decision to attend the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's performance of A Christmas Carol in downtown Baltimore last night, which led to another lifetime of memories collected in one evening.
With none of Sony's production values, Bill Gates, the C.E.O. of Microsoft, had held forth on the same stage for an hour and a half, and his off-the-cuff responses to questions from the audience were received as if he were Yoda or the chairman of the Fed.
In an apparently off-the-cuff response to a question that caught even his press office by surprise, Mr. Ban also said he believed that President Bashar al-Assad of Syria "has committed many crimes against humanity".
However, the Pope's off-the-cuff answers to journalists' questions on the Vatican plane are often more open to interpretation, when he offers lengthy and often colourful answers in his second language, Italian, as he did on Thursday before arriving in Manila.
What you have left are simply the answers that each president offered, off-the-cuff and unscripted, to all questions. .
