Sentence examples similar to speculating idly from inspiring English sources

(He rationalizes backward: he'll conjure a treasurer in Colón, then make his characters speculate idly about why there are government ministries in a noncapital city).

In one scene, an apparently liberal group of tourists speculate idly about the unattractive people they'd ideally erase from their holiday view and end up constructing a Goebbels-like fantasy of eliminating everyone who's ugly, stupid or different.

Pundits can speculate idly on "Well, if politician X were hit by a bus tomorrow," and average citizens may also indulge in this sort of thing, but once you take up the mantle of being a politician, you cannot ever say anything like this ever again -- at least not in public.

I speculated very idly about it last week, and in retrospect I suppose it makes some kind of sense.

One could imagine idly speculating about "what is the citation statistic that makes people like oneself look the best"?

No wonder too that financiers are no longer idly speculating about a breakup of the single currency, but are now modelling its likely impact.

No wonder too that financiers are no longer idly speculating about a breakup of the single currency, but are now modelling its likely impact.

I once did him a terrible disservice by idly speculating at the end of an interview early in his political career that he might be Britain's first black prime minister.

We're not just idly speculating here.

Blue for the limitlessness of the ocean, we idly speculate.

Both Fox News and MSNBC have idly speculated on the mental health of candidates on the presidential tickets.