Sentence examples for offhand talk from inspiring English sources

Once they arrived in Santa Barbara, he hung onto the truck, but was sufficiently spooked by the smuggler's offhand talk of murder – and the fact that his crew had filmed him saying it – to vow never to take it to Mexico again.

The same thought recurred to me in a rereading of his offhand Talk of the Town report, written for The New Yorker after he watched the collapse of the twin towers from across the river in Brooklyn Heights: "War is conducted with a fury that requires abstraction — that turns a planeful of peaceful passengers, children included, into a missile the faceless enemy deserves.

Most of the items were the usual fare: newspaper citations, summaries from the talk shows, offhand references to minor political figures ("Note to Debbie Dingell").

Yet for the most part this was something he seemed only intermittently aware of, talking in an offhand way of his "oriental" side.

He said, "I had a player — I can't remember who offhand — made the comment that 'It feels good to talk to somebody at eye level.' " Cutler represents an extreme example in the evolution of N.B.A. refs. They are becoming younger, bigger and stronger.

After handing me the business card of the press representative for their group of bars, he made an offhand comment about how many people are interested in talking about hipster culture in Paris lately.

The offhand, charmingly humble way in which these world-changing engineers talk about SMS is indicative of the circuitous route it took to market.

If you want to go to a concert on a school night, casually ask in an offhand way instead of sitting down to have a big talk about it.

He spoke with the offhand confidence of a professor in permanent lecture mode.

That's all the truer of writers, because their offhand conversation is continuous with their work (even if writing begins where talk ends — in silence).

Early this year, Trump had expressed some offhand approval of the Obama initiative, but he began to toughen his talk as the campaign wound to a close.