People have been staring and passing remarks ever since the work began.
A few passing remarks take note of how, over the years, he has found it ever harder to write; and the passing remarks become insistent.
They were passing remarks back and forth the way they do and laughing that wicked way they have.
Though she had felt, even then, that the brass would win out in the end and the charm sour into his father's talent for passing remarks.
In an interview set up by Mr. Zuckerman, Mr. Clinton made passing remarks about the summit talks, violating a news blackout that the White House itself had set.
There were two baths, and the nurse would stand in the middle and, all the time, she'd be passing remarks about your body.
This was the anti-Semitism of passing remarks — a well-meaning professor noting that my wand grip was "in the Semitic style," or that my choice of a certain spell was "crafty".
From similar passing remarks scholars have inferred that the gods, before humanity came into being, had to labour hard at the heavy works of irrigation for agriculture and dug out the beds of the Tigris and the Euphrates.
"What is it," his caption asked, "about #gasstationsatdusk?" The picture got a lot of likes — more than his others tended to — and occasioned a number of passing remarks in the comments, especially from other artists and art critics.
