When they're killed, that line turns to a dispassionate cross – instead of murdered, they are simply "off".
"His cooperation was simply off-the-charts extraordinary," Mr. McCarren said of Mr. Dwek.
Abuzz, for example, is designed to be a variation of an online discussion board and sometimes elicits responses that are simply off-hand remarks.
"For too long they [troika officials] refused to accept that the programme was simply off-target by hiding behind our failure to implement structural reforms," said one insider.
Unlike most of Earth-orbiting artificial satellites, the two-dimensional velocity aberration vector in lunar laser ranging is simply off-centered toward the +Y direction by 4 7 microradians, due to the stable measurement geometry.
Other tangents are simply off the point.
Today lower payroll taxes, let alone a capital-gains tax cut, are simply off the agenda.
"If there's no plebiscite, it is simply off the table for the next three years," he said.
Maybe the timing Damon showed in the World Series was simply off in December.
And when it came to the life-enhancing qualities of attitude and involvement Uncle Simon was simply off the charts.
