| He could be distastefully off-hand when actually presented with the people he campaigned for, evidently happier to treat them as causes. |
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| However, off-hand public remarks quoted in newspapers can't be taken as serious theoretical statements. |
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| I can't off-hand think of any non-competitive system that can establish this, since the act of ranking is competitive in itself. |
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| At the news of Davan's death, Heissman has a strangely off-hand shuttered nonreaction. |
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| He saunters from casual racism to drinking buddies, via romantic regrets, childhood mishaps and an off-hand relationship with current affairs. |
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| Where these differ from viewers' beliefs, a joke or an off-hand comment can cause offense. |
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| All the off-hand familiarity makes Zamboni a bit nervous. |
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| He is flippant, off-hand, but I am simply furious. |
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| Most players, even the stars, couldn't dribble well with their off-hand. |
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| Try to ignore off-hand remarks that I wouldn't have made in the past. |
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| But he had his own defenses, a great off-hand resilience and a deadpan humor, and he survived. |
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| Out of respect to tradition, I always make a point of speaking in riddles or of burying my very best prophecies in a set of casual, seemingly off-hand remarks. |
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| Some ranged weapons are clearly listed as light off-handed weapons, and may be used in your off-hand. |
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| His cultural isolation since the 1950s, the lack of written sources, his deliberately off-hand attitude towards his photography, the lapidary nature of his explanations: all these are obstacles. |
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| This last meeting exclusively targeted questions related to food supplementation in the treatment of MM, putting aside off-hand other factors that are, in our opinion, more fundamental. |
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