Sentence examples for offhand treatment from inspiring English sources

Here's his gracefully offhand treatment of his most famous composition, Misty.

Her offhand treatment of Napoleon's new empress, Marie-Louise, led to her removal from court in 1810.

There is occasional mordant humour in the characters' offhand treatment of violent behaviour, but most of the jokes are just plain lame.

The problem is that the film-makers' offhand treatment of the subject matter prevents this from tugging at the audiences' consciences and emotions in the way, for example, that Soderbergh's far more rousing Erin Brockovich managed.

That sounds like a contradiction, but the flat, almost offhand treatment of the monochromatic frills seemed to be used for texture and unexpected volume on his classically shaped cotton dresses.

She was formal, perhaps, but no longer offhand in her treatment of him.

In this overly long but involving new biography, Mr. Hjortsberg, a novelist who was a friend and neighbor of Brautigan's during his Montana years, nails the qualities that I've admired about Brautigan's work, notably his "easy offhand voice, his concern for average working-class people, his matter-of-fact treatment of death, and his often startling juxtaposition of wildly disparate images".

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.