Sentence examples for offhand tone from inspiring English sources
The incongruity of offhand tone and grave subject matter is part of a fairly consistent worldview.
Doubtless this offhand tone will appeal to some readers, but I find it more sloppy than welcoming.
I didn't pursue the details; by now I understood that the blandly offhand tone of such statements was basically the point.
In the emergency room, a doctor asked me in an offhand tone if anyone in my family had ever died suddenly and unexpectedly at a young age.
Hearing from one of the murderers he has hired that Banquo lies dead in a ditch, with 20 gashes in his head, Mr. Cumming uses the same offhand tone to reply, "Thanks for that".
You sometimes find Jewish scholars implying that their Gentile opponents do not really know Hebrew well enough to arrive at a sound opinion, and, on the other side, non-Jewish Hebraists taking a lofty and offhand tone on the value of rabbinical studies.
"Put a bag over your head and I'd fuck you for one," says Peter in offhand tones.
Such questions are tendered by Mr. Williams's gruff tiger in an offhand, conversational tone that considerably lightens their weightiness.
"Often there's an offhand quality to the work".
His tone of offhand ecstasy helped to produce, decades later, a spectacular new American poetry.
In other words, Aimee Bender establishes from the outset a tone of casual, offhand intimacy, but the fairy tale-like parable, whose themes are mortality, self-sacrifice and dismemberment, is not so simple.
