Sentence examples for offhand observations from inspiring English sources

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Because Frank is more of a critic than a reporter, some of his offhand observations are maddeningly vague.

She shared her husband's eye for detail: in his diary Nabokov frequently cited her poetic, offhand observations.

Poems, advertising slogans, offhand observations, deathbed declarations, political orations, jokes, curses — all are seeking to find permanent lodgment in your brain.

The movie's last third gracefully gathers the offhand observations and shaggy-dog episodes that have accumulated along the way into a skein of comic misunderstanding.

Even de Kretser's offhand observations can be engaging, like this note on the attitude of a few people Laura encounters in her wanderings: "They were serious, appreciative and archaic: travelers for whom the link between travel and holiness still held".

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These associations have already been implied in the opening funeral images, but Mr. Moretti's touch is so light here that it feels as if he's making an offhand observation about the church instead of building an argument.

In one of those interviews, Mr. Dal Col made the offhand observation that Mrs. Clinton would be in trouble if her primary opponent got 30percentt or more, a generous prediction that would surely have been lost had Mrs. Clinton's aides not made sure to share that particularly high number with any reporter writing a story on the race.

Although she admits to having had sexual relations with 11 men in exchange for $, I think she supported herself mainly through platonic relationships, such as with her gay millionaire sugar daddy, O. J. Berman, Sally Tomato, etc. STEVELONG, NYC Just an offhand observation about the movie.

What at the time was an offhand observation now reads like an eerie prophecy.

What Israel really doesn't want, critics say, is a definitive solution, and Netanyahu admitted that much last week, in an offhand observation that went largely unnoticed.

Saleem may have a habit of presenting as casual offhand asides observations about, say, beggars forced into mutilating their children to help them earn more money, or the mass castration of undesirables, but they hit home with no less force for that.

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