How To Use Offhand In A Sentence
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His offhand manner put my back up.
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an offhand manner
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Rebecca "brings the vitality of herself -- her offhand sense of her own consequence"; Mizzy "feels like a fantasy he's having, his own dream of self, made manifest to others"; Peter exhibits an artist whose video installations show ordinary citizens in repeated commonplace actions, but these figures "do, of course, each of them, carry within them a jewel of self, not just the wounds and the hopes but an innerness.
Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham
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Consumers found the attitude of its staff offhand and generally offensive to the paying customer.
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`Oh, things could be worse," said Hunter, doing his best to imitate Yoller's offhand, sophisticated tone.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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Consumers found the attitude of its staff offhand and generally offensive to the paying customer.
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As with O'Reilly, offhand dismissal of critics is not a good practice for any business, organization, group, or individual.
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I'm not sure, but offhand it seems to fulfill the criteria of the definitions offered by Bennett.
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The best example I can think of offhand is from Michael Marshall Smith's Only Forward.
On Prologues
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In his offhand way, DeLillo teaches many important lessons in Libra, including certain etymologies, for instance the relationship in Arabic between the words assassin and hashish (on page 342).
Confusion and Turbulence
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we decided offhand to go to Canada
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I follow and offer refreshment, which is once more declined, though this time the Italian's manner is not offhand, but solicitous and somewhat grave.
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She said you were a bit offhand with her this afternoon.
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What makes you think women can just remember dates offhand this way?
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I follow and offer refreshment, which is once more declined, though this time the Italian's manner is not offhand, but solicitous and somewhat grave.
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(In passing, it should be noted that – as is so often the case – the journalist consistently appears to misgender her subjects with the offhand presumption which is a hallmark of so many cis writers.
Be Like Others
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Nobody present could give the exact figures of increase in production offhand.
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Nobody present could give the exact figures of increase in production offhand.
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Can’t think of the title offhand, but it’s definitely on my list.
Fiction Writing: Collaborating and Co-Authoring
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Posner reviews them all in turn, in a hectic flurry of piled-up fact-bites, speculative calcula-tions, passing quarrels, and offhand policy dicta ” an orderless mixture of assertion, guess, remark, and opinion for which the term "farrago" would seem to have been invented.
Very Bad News
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There is a certain irritating sort of journalist - perhaps unfairly, Zoe Williams of the Guardian is the first name that springs to mind - who affects an adolescent offhandedness in his of her writing.
Simon Titley: Against jargon
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He is a modest shirt-sleeved fiftyish guy who says dramatic things in an offhand undramatic manner and is frank about his hesitancy, uncertainty, and agony on certain matters.
How the End Begins
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He waved offhand, Toby said, he waved or gestured at what Toby thought was the desk.
GOTHIC PURSUIT
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Consumers found the attitude of its staff offhand and generally offensive to the paying customer.
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I learned it from someone who formerly worked in the government and he mentioned it in an offhand manner, leading me to infer it was something that insiders were well aware of.
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Super-dry jazz hi-hat work mixes with offhand synth-bass and slivered chirrups of sound sliced thin enough to be just impossible to place.
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Lewis had been very eloquent in explaining how things should be, even if he wasn't working with the whole story, while Mally had an offhand manner about her that gave her reasoning a little too much patness.
Greenmantle
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After everything he'd accomplished he was back where he'd started; the object of Hank's offhand contempt.
ABSOLUTE ZERO
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She probably doesn't even realize her offhand remarks are offensive to you.
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He repeatedly roiled the international currency markets with offhand comments about the value of the dollar and the inadvisability of bailouts of countries like Turkey, Brazil and Argentina.
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The only answer I can think of offhand is the bond market & those who have an interest in fixed incomes since inflation would be painful for both.
Politics vs. Economics, II, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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she threw him over offhandedly without even a Dear-John letter
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she treated most men with offhand contempt
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Offhand, I would guess that this car repair will cost US $ 1,500.
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While standing offhand is my best position I can't hit a thing with this particular gun beyond 40 yd because it is so light.
Weight a Minute
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‘They were quite abrupt and offhand,’ says Elliot, who is now 39.
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I can't quote the exact statistics for you offhand, but they're there for you to see in the report.
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I can't cite references offhand, but she's excellent.
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Some scenes are excellently staged and acted, while others are done in an offhand, parodic manner which makes me wonder how historically accurate everything is.
Weekly Mishmash: April 11-17 : Scrubbles.net
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I can't quote the exact statistics for you offhand, but they're there for you to see in the report.
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I could have otherwise dallied around for years, interviewing cheesemakers on a sort of casual offhand basis and never really pulled it all together.
Artisan cheese and blogs-to-books
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Let me open up the category of muddling through, and there are two or three different ways offhand, of doing that.
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I hope I didn't appear offhand with her - it's just that I was in such a hurry.
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He was rather offhand with me.
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I offhandedly expostulated whilst continuing to read her two page monologue.
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Rebecca "brings the vitality of herself--her offhand sense of her own consequence"; Mizzy "feels like a fantasy he's having, his own dream of self, made manifest to others"; Peter exhibits an artist whose video installations show ordinary citizens in repeated commonplace actions, but these figures "do, of course, each of them, carry within them a jewel of self, not just the wounds and the hopes but an innerness.
Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham: The New York Review Of Books
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Nobody present could give the exact figures of increase in production offhand.
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It would be difficult to think, offhand, of a simple explanation of why a young woman, a total stranger, wearing only a nightdress, rang our doorbell at 7.45 in the morning.
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Shooting offhand is a humbling experience, it's much more fun to shoot tiny groups but it has little to do with hunting unless you're out west with your rifle laid on a bedroll.
Too Much Accuracy?
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offhand excuses
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I can't remember the name of the actress who played Nan offhand and don't have time to look it up.
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Consumers found the attitude of its staff offhand and generally offensive to the paying customer.
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Nobody present could give the exact figures of increase in production offhand.
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But even in the tiniest detail, in apparently offhand remarks, there is a sense of his determination to confine himself to a list of terse, pre-scripted lines.
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I'm sure there must be a reason why Dean's comment is different, but offhand I can't think what it is.
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Now, you can do this in an offhand manner, casually noting results, but you'll be much further ahead if you do it somewhat scientifically.
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You wouldn't know his name offhand, but he wrote and executive-produced my favorite episode of my favorite TV show of all time.
Archive 2010-04-01
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‘They were quite abrupt and offhand,’ says Elliot, who is now 39.
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Instead, we are introduced to necessary elements in offhand, haphazard fashion.
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I couldn't think offhand of a creative use for this thing, a non-business use, but maybe with some pondering…
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Hackneyed and sterile, the Rockwell is ideal if you are looking for vastly overpriced drinks served by offhand waiters with pathetically slow service.
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The execs ixnayed the female first mate from the pilot, and he basically smuggled Nichelle Nicholls in under his coat, only mentioning offhand he was ‘going to add a little colour’ to the bridge crew.
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We do tend to dismiss offhand such phenomena as human artifacts, and because of good theoretical and inductive preconceptions.
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One offhand comment he made haunted me for years, how art history since had been based on a misinterpretation of Cezanne.
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I had seen several of the men snip the head from a rattlesnake with a single offhand shot -- yes, they all carried their weapons easily and wontedly.
Desert Dust
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The weirdest thing is that people always make these offhand comments as if I know exactly what they're talking about, as if everyone knows.
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She said you were a bit offhand with her this afternoon.
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Yet another respondent pinpoints Taylor's offhand indictment of ‘older feminists’ as the basis for her ire.
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Consumers found the attitude of its staff offhand and generally offensive to the paying customer.
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If an inventor is unable to sell his idea without assistance from the State, offhand I would simply consider him a poor businessman, unless Zeus or Keynes was holding him back.
Intellectual Property, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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I hope I didn't appear offhand with her - it's just that I was in such a hurry.
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I've seen worse documents, I suppose, but it's hard to think of one offhand.
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At that point and on your show I didn't know what that meant at all because it was such a casual offhand remark.
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It was an offhand revelation from this official, who is no partisan gunslinger.
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‘The NRA should understand that we are not second class citizens and will not stand for this offhand treatment,’ he concluded.
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trying to sound offhanded and reassuring
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And I don't recall right offhand what exactly that was.
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Lives hang in the balance, and yet we have typically relied for our choices on happenstance—offhand referrals, late nights at the office, or the dream of meeting cute.
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He'd said it in such an offhand and nonchalant manner, though, that I decided to let it drop.
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Everyone in these offhanded portraits looked fabulous, in a debauched and groovy way, and even the characters who weren't familiar looked as they though should be, somewhere under the smeared mascara and opiated grins.
The Club Everyone Wanted to Be In
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V.S. RAMACHANDRAN: Offhand, I can't tell you when they started using the term "anosognosia" for other types of denial.
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I can't quote the exact statistics for you offhand, but they're there for you to see in the report.
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I can't answer your request offhand.
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He examines my belay and says offhandedly, ‘Guess I won't fall.’
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I know of no good way to explain the divisions and/or contrasts offhand.
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I can't say offhand how much money I earn.
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For all the outward signs of casualness, these works are not quite as offhand as they might seem to be at first.
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Super-dry jazz hi-hat work mixes with offhand synth-bass and slivered chirrups of sound sliced thin enough to be just impossible to place.
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It did not contain my Family Railcard, driving license photocard, Kew membership card, or, um, anything else I can think of offhand.
Punctuality!
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At that point and on your show I didn't know what that meant at all because it was such a casual offhand remark.
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When close to the whale, in the very death-lock of the fight, he handled his unpitying lance coolly and offhandedly as a whistling tinker his hammer.
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I know there are more, but I can't think of them offhand.
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In truth, the texture of that salmon-coloured skin could be seen to be aristocratic without a microscope, and the exceptious artizan has an offhand way when contrasts are made painfully strong by an idler of this kind coming, gloved and brushed, into the very den where he is sweating and muddling in his shirt-sleeves.
The Hand of Ethelberta
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Nobody present could give the exact figures of increase in production offhand.
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`Oh, things could be worse," said Hunter, doing his best to imitate Yoller's offhand, sophisticated tone.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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I hope I didn't appear offhand with her - it's just that I was in such a hurry.
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she had made these remarks offhandedly
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I can't think of anyone offhand I would specifically not want to hear from, though if I really gave it some thought there might be one or two.
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Adolphus climbed the tree, killed the "goanna" offhand, and threw it so that it fell close to Hamed, and
My Tropic Isle
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That something emerges in a totally unsystematic, indeed offhand way, as in a review of a book on Yeats's poetry.
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His initial reaction was to declare that he could not issue letters offhand and would have to verify what actually took place.
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I cannot recall the exact source offhand, Sumer I think but compound imagery was the mode of explaining cosmogenesis and theogony in pre-literate and pari-literate times and we find the residue of similar explicatory "myths" in subsequent sets of icons such as Anahita, whose personification of a complete cornucopia is evident in her titulary associations with "water" and all living things.
Disagreement Behind the Scenes
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The only answer I can think of offhand is the bond market
Politics vs. Economics, II, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Consider for a moment that we may be watching for the wrong thing; it's not at all about the political issues, cameos or adlibs, but a dramatic story that unfolds so offhandedly it catches us unaware.
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Oh, I'm a lunger," Brissenden announced, offhand, a little later, having already stated that he came from Arizona.
Chapter 31
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I don't recall offhand the names of any of the other sources.
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I'm thinking shooting offhand is true love and a sandbag is a one night stand.
Video Blog: Shooting Over A Chronograph
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I wonder how long it will take for normally intelligent and rational well educated people to become obsessed over the offhand remarks of moon hoax conspiracy theorists, while simultaneously neglecting (or even worse, fostering) the long term decadal downward social, political and educational trends which have created a fertile environment for the intellectual ignorance and apathy allowing nutty theories to prosper, and scientifically valid and interesting speculative theories like extraterrestrial life and ET visitation to be ridiculed.
Apollo Landing Site Images - NASA Watch
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Gatsby replies offhand that Meyer is a gambler and is the man who fixed the World Series in 1919.
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Offhand I can't quote you an exact price.
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No screenings were used to stimulate this activity, as it was crucial to discover the offhand references subjects would make to justify their choices.
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Consumers found the attitude of its staff offhand and generally offensive to the paying customer.
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I hope I didn't appear offhand with her - it's just that I was in such a hurry.
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As with O'Reilly, offhand dismissal of critics is not a good practice for any business, organization, group, or individual.
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I can't remember offhand where the file is.
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With aquiline, tanned good looks and lank blond hair, he wore expensive but rumpled clothing with offhand, upper-class ease.
HOUR OF THE HUNTER
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I hope I didn't appear offhand with her - it's just that I was in such a hurry.
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The only other soup lyric I can think of offhand is the Lewis Carroll lyric ‘Beautiful Soup.’
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‘Yes,’ Riggs replied in an offhand manner, sitting obediently, and crossing his legs in front of him.
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He'd said it in such an offhand and nonchalant manner, though, that I decided to let it drop.
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And he can tell you offhand, not only their worth in the normal perforated and canceled condition, but also how their values vary if they are uncanceled, unperforated, embossed, rouletted, surcharged with all manner of initials, printed by mistake with the king standing on his head, or water-marked anything from a horn of plenty to the seven lean kine of
The Joyful Heart
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‘If nothing else you have gall,’ he nodded and she gave a Cheshire smile to the offhanded compliment as he lit his cigar, the smell of it immediately coming to her attention.
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Newman's powerful onscreen presence makes him a charming roué; he slips on the role with professional ease, bringing an offhand sexiness to his role.
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Let him patronise his overpriced London restaurants with their indifferent offerings and offhand service.
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After everything he'd accomplished he was back where he'd started; the object of Hank's offhand contempt.
ABSOLUTE ZERO
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I read a great deal, but I can't really pick a landmark book offhand.
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But Johar has an offhand, stylish way of doing it.
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‘This is too important and fundamental a problem to be simply dismissed in this offhand way by the Minister,’ said Dr Cowley.
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He was very nonchalant, very offhand at the press conference when he was making those comments.
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If you are truly serious about becoming a capable offhand marksman, set up a suitable backstop in your garage or basement and discipline yourself to fire just 10 careful rounds each evening.
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couldn't give the figures offhand
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The woman who, about half hour ago had been hard, stern and rather austere was now so offhand and casual that Miette suspected a stand-in had been found while she napped.
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He waved offhand, Toby said, he waved or gestured at what Toby thought was the desk.
GOTHIC PURSUIT
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Offhand I can't quote you an exact price.
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Thus, in Mrs. Kerry's brainless and witless offhand yet pregnant remark, we hear the sick thud of the other shoe dropping.
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I suppose there must be plenty of counterexamples to such a sweeping statement, but none occur to me offhand.
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The "works on paper" are fascinating: weird and offhand enough to make you doubt they're from Bacon's hand, but also just the kind of scabrous visual notes an artist like Bacon -- who didn't draw much -- would have warmed up to paint with.
True Value
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For me, at least, and surely for many others, perhaps more than is realized offhand, the entirety of the song is needed, and the entirety subsumes the particulars.
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Consumers found the attitude of its staff offhand and generally offensive to the paying customer.
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She probably doesn't even realize her offhand remarks are offensive to you.
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I am pretty certain that your gun's bead is threaded, but I don't know the size offhand.
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The "optics" on this are not good judging from the offhand comments I've heard from various people today.
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I hope I didn't appear offhand with her - it's just that I was in such a hurry.
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I don't offhand dismiss speculation that this is all a neoconservative plot to privatize Iraqi art.
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His offhand remark may be closer to the truth if discount business class catches on.
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The level will obviously be slight if it's just some offhand teasing among casual acquaintances.
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This remark, delivered in an offhand fashion, suddenly cast a rather sinister chill over the whole proceedings.
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However, while the ideas expressed in these interviews may lack the benefits of hindsight, they do not come across as offhanded or unstudied.
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I'm thinking shooting offhand is true love and a sandbag is a one night stand.
Video Blog: Shooting Over A Chronograph
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replied offhand, his mind a million miles away
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I don't look at myself when I shoot of course, but when I shoot offhand I try to neither have my elbow out at a 45 angle nor down against my ribs but rather at an angle, sorta southeast with a nice pocket in my shoulder for the buttstock.
A Cautionary Hematoma Tale
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His last record, 2003's The Transfiguration of Vincent, was a perfect meditation on death and love, delivered with an offhand grace that made fingerpicking and a little snare seem revelatory, even as it conjured the ghost of John Fahey.
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The painting's elegant, slithery movement - it looks like a diamondbacked reptile going by a window - is counterpointed by studiedly offhand execution.