| Music and motion were deceptive in their cumulative effect, their offhandedness possessing an innocence and an easy thrum that diverted us from the cocoon that the dancers spun around us. |
| But this, the Spam postcard and the note, he felt contained the correct combination of offhandedness and intent. |
| I couldn't even work up a falsely brave remark, and I felt twisted with envy at the others' breezy offhandedness. |
| Both are Midwesterners, and they share habits of offhandedness, a natural ease and fluency, and a glancing but prickly humor that moves inexorably toward melancholy satire. |
| He does it all with a floating economy of motion and a beguiling offhandedness that appeal to the imagination. |
| Her offhandedness, her inability to realise the situation, were exasperating to the young widow. |
