| However, off-hand public remarks quoted in newspapers can't be taken as serious theoretical statements. |
| He could be distastefully off-hand when actually presented with the people he campaigned for, evidently happier to treat them as causes. |
| This kind of off-hand behaviour, was not calculated to retain custom. |
| 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. |
| At the news of Davan's death, Heissman has a strangely off-hand shuttered nonreaction. |
| In these days of off-hand equipment, the matter was easily enough arranged. |
