How To Use Off-hand In A Sentence
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As if to underline the point, he has narrator Sean Penn, in a deliciously off-handed moment, deliberately fluff one of his lines.
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Later today, President-elect Obama called Nancy Reagan, apologized to her for what he described as a careless and off-hand remark he made during the news conference.
CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2008
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There, the Supreme Court, rather off-handedly, allowed the state to ban the distribution of commercial handbills in the absence of a showing of any harm to any consumers.
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Frankie responded, an off-handed tone to his voice as he took another drag of his homemade, unfiltered cigarette.
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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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Are not they well enough to be done off-hand; for that is the meaning of the word extempore, which you did not know, did you?
The Journal to Stella
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I note off-handedly that I'm slightly shivering from sitting so close to the drafty window, and I'm losing feeling in my hands and feet.
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But the off-hand manner in which he posits a major attack on US soil ‘affecting’ the presidential election suggests he is merely echoing a common theme of discussions in the corridors of power of the American capital.
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My theory behind this mixed load is that if noise-making and pepper spray (used with the off-hand) haven't solved the problem, then the bruin, cougar or coyote will probably only be a few feet away.
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Punishment is off-hand and severe; but the cockatoo is a sly bird, and often the fury of the fruit-grower expends itself in merely verbal explosions.
Last Leaves from Dunk Island
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Rather, the entire story of the missing insurance fraudster is seemingly a red herring, an excuse to tell a story about Bellamy and his compulsive work ethic, his off-handed destructiveness toward the people in his life and his seeming cluelessness about himself.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Inspector Bellamy
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Given the suggestibility of footie folk it is impossible to underplay the significance of this apparently off-hand remark.
Football and spectacles: Players make passes for men who wear glasses | Harry Pearson
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So far as my imperfect hearing can ascertain, he has been instructing the jury that they may utterly dismiss from their minds my highly ingenious plea of inability to offer any other kind of matrimony than a polygamous union -- surely, a very, very slipshod off-hand method of disposing of such a nice sharp quillet of the Law! ...
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
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This day is one that typically Americans pay sort of attention to cursorily in the most off-handed ways.
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There was some fatal flaw in his makeup, and as time went on he lapsed into long silences or became off-hand.
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Next the pastor came to the microphone and made announcements in an off-handed, jocular, manner.
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I note off-handedly that I'm slightly shivering from sitting so close to the drafty window, and I'm losing feeling in my hands and feet.
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-- He's not that way: not a couple in all Ireland, and that's saying a great dale, looks less after their own, nor is more off-handeder, or open-hearteder, or greater openhouse-keeper, _nor_ [3] my Lord and my Lady Killpatrick. '
Tales and Novels — Volume 06
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Have you done the repairs?" — "Can't say off-hand, but I doubt it.
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The candlelight cast a golden hue onto her fiery-red hair, and Rhea wondered off-handedly if Jali had ever considered dyeing it.
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But Barbara literally rules The Aztecs; the only early story I can think of off-hand which puts a companion closer to the spotlight is also by John Lucarotti, The Massacre.
Linkspam for 9-10-2009
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I don't know the figures off-hand
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Constantinople had given him a taste for Anacreontic singing, and female society of the questionable kind, a love of strong waters, — the hypocrite looked positively scandalised when I first suggested the subject, — and an off-hand latitudinarian mode of dealing with serious subjects in general.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
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However, off-hand public remarks quoted in newspapers can't be taken as serious theoretical statements.
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There was some fatal flaw in his makeup, and as time went on he lapsed into long silences or became off-hand.
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Intestinal blockage is the only explanation I remember off-hand.
2008 Lenten Read-a-Thon Day 24