How To Use Off-the-cuff In A Sentence
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Then, an off-the-cuff remark by a bookshop owner who gruffly suggested she should write something of her own changed the course of her life.
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Be prepared. If you shrink from the full message, or if your unrehearsed, off-the-cuff remarks sound disrespectful, then you'll undermine your case.
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With his ramrod posture and off-the-cuff New York delivery, Dean did not meet that need.
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an off-the-cuff toast
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And the script sounded like a meandering collection of off-the-cuff observations.
Times, Sunday Times
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He would start with off-the-cuff remarks and witticisms and gradually improvise a setting in which they could shine.
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I don't want to give an off-the-cuff definite answer.
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I didn't mean any offence. It was a flippant, off-the-cuff remark.
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A former White House chief of staff for President George H.W. Bush, Mr. Sununu described Mr. Gingrich as having a penchant for "self-aggrandizement" and "off-the-cuff thinking" that "is not what you want in a commander-in-chief.
Tough Talk as Romney Takes Aim at Gingrich
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Coun Ward said the city did not need ministers coming in with off-the-cuff solutions to Bradford's problems during flying visits.
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The gallus radio figure with his seemingly off-the-cuff put downs is in fact an intelligent and pleasantly modest fellow who researches his material meticulously.
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All those jokes and that banter are not off-the-cuff wit.
Times, Sunday Times
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As Samoa showed earlier in the pool stages, the tournament favourites can be vulnerable to unstructured, off-the-cuff teams prepared to run the ball at them.
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My wife says I cannot tell a joke, but I can make off-the-cuff cracks that have been known to elicit the occasional chuckle.
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Every once in a while Spade is able to raise a few smirks with his off-the-cuff zingers, but because the plot feels so ‘sitcom-y’ and forced, all the laughs are diluted.
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He can hardly enter a room or alight from a car without a press posse descending, hungry for a photo or off-the-cuff remark.
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If you then ask how this businessman could carry 93% of the vote in Erie County — trouncing the party's designated nominee, former congressman Rick Lazio 63% to 37% statewide — you will be met with either blank stares or off-the-cuff comments about the mental limitations of those upstate outlanders.
The Broadway-Buffalo Divide
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The number of verifiable off-the-cuff remarks she has made during six decades of queenship can be counted on one hand.
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The point of weblogs is their off-the-cuff nature, their unscripted, up-to-the-minute commentary.
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I didn't mean any offence. It was a flippant, off-the-cuff remark.
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It's full of grabby descriptions and witty, off-the-cuff dialogue.
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His "articulacy" comes straight from the teleprompter, he is stumbling and adrift when speaking off-the-cuff, and his "political adroitness" is non-existent, to wit the types of people with whom he chooses to associate himself.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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His off-the-cuff acceptance speech in Huntingdon was a model of quiet decency.
Times, Sunday Times
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You're getting close to a good mix of two broad streams: shortish, formless, off-the-cuff opinion pieces; and formal, well-argued pieces, both long and short.
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The off-the-cuff charmer and disarmer from the old Straight Talk Express was missing from the second debate, a town-hall format that was supposed to be the most comfortable setting for McCain.
The Great Debates
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Even if you don't agree with him, it's not difficult to sympathise with the sentiment behind his off-the-cuff remark.