Sentence examples for offhand support from inspiring English sources

And Mr. Woodard, with his jolly, deceptively offhand support contributes to the mood of playful intimacy.

He had already admitted to Gebara, offhand, that he supports Palmeiras, another São Paulo club, which is traditionally associated with the city's Italian community.

Luke, the shuttle driver, makes an offhand comment that suggests he supports Donald Trump, a statement that Nell uses to make herself feel better when she thinks back on the incident.

Since then, Mr. McCain himself has come under repeated fire from the Democrats for his support of the war and for offhand comments that he could envision a United States peacekeeping presence in Iraq for 100 years.

She was certainly almost offhand in her ruthlessness with Ephra, even as her support for Nessa is looking very double-edged.

While attempting to rally support for US bombing of Syrian president Bashar Assad for his chemical-weapons use, Kerry saw his offhand musing about Assad giving up his weapons stockpiles turned into a Russian diplomatic coup that allowed Assad to avoid attack and remain in power.

That year, Mr. Reid, asked to support a moratorium on the practice, said he would go further and press for its repeal, an offhand statement that ignited the repeal efforts in his chamber.

Rarely does she sound offhand.

He wants to dismiss us offhand.

Art is difficult, willed; nature unintentional, offhand.

Funny, offhand, these are also melancholy images.