And so I'm so impressed with this that I just made an offhand comment to the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid ... Offhand, just hanging with the ruler of Dubai.
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But I can't think of a good literary choice offhand.
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The dialogue sparkles, whether in offhand exchanges or written diatribes.
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And what about gray areas like teasing and offhand comments?
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The offhand remark, perhaps an attempt at levity, drew swift criticism.
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"Offhand, I can smell extrajudicial killing," former national police chief Sen.
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Sometimes this feeling manifests itself in an offhand remark about Halloween.
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It was something fundamental that kept coming up in offhand remarks.
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There, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has made an offhand comment.
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At times, he offers offhand remarks that support the absurd narrative.
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His name is Adam, and he's hot in an offhand way.
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"Yeah, you know, we've gone back and watched them," Markus said offhand.
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"This is a considered policy proposal; they're not offhand remarks," Hooper said.
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Often these offhand photos can drive small news cycles of their own.
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Their real reason for calling only emerged later, through an offhand comment.
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Morgan did not know offhand whether the critter survived the power outage.
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Your reaction to that offhand comment on that website made me sad.
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"My mother once mentioned offhand that it wasn't totally unusual," she said.
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The president last month made an offhand remark about rhyming the nickname.
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Even jokes, satire and offhand remarks can lead to charges and have.
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Miike's seemingly offhand inventiveness is evident in almost every shot and cut.
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Freestyles you recorded offhand are being shouted back at you by New Yorkers.
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Mr. Trump instead repeated an offhand comment the Russian had for Mr. Trump.
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And Sal, I just made an offhand comment to ... Explain who Sal is.
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Much crime fiction uncovers the hidden nastiness of characters in their offhand remarks.
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Waters's offhand comment fascinated Hnath, who had once written a play about séances.
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The result is Filipino-American drinking food that tends to be charmingly offhand.
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"Zama" handles the theme of geographical perdition with the offhand anguish of familiarity.
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Tim browsed posts on the A.G.L.C.A. forum, talking offhand about the Looper disposition.
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I don't pay for it, my brother, he spots it to me offhand.
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Maybe so, but Ms Coppola herself is unfazed to the point of being offhand.
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Every TikTok video, even the most slapdash and offhand, is calculated to some degree.
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What at the time was an offhand observation now reads like an eerie prophecy.
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Mr. Jackson acknowledged offhand the unusual spectacle of Mr. Trump's presence in his church.
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Offhand, you might think this is fine, if the decision isn't very important anyway.
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Some of the men Wamboldt spoke to cracked offhand jokes about having been raped.
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And that's just an offhand line in a movie that isn't really about Jewishness!
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So here's a good rule of thumb: Offhand comments do not new stories make.
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However, closer examination reveals television appearances laden with offhand jokes about thanking your socks.
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In policy and offhand commentary, open racism is now not only tolerated, but celebrated.
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The dancers are caught in an offhand moment, un-self-conscious and not performing.
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Kelly recreates the counterculture festivities with offhand expertise, and among them are foreboding signs.
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The movie takes an oblique, almost offhand approach to narrative for its first hour.
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Thankfully, the entire affair was sober and not utterly derailed by an offhand comment.
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Trump finally endorsed it in an offhand comment during a June 9 press conference.
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That's what I'm definitely talking about with this offhand reference to secrets in TV dramas.
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Have cigarettes, the right ones "A lot of soldiers smoke," Masao told me once, offhand.
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Because of Perry's offhand comment, social media designed a battle between two popular musical artists.
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They say in an offhand manner that the Yemeni authorities don't interfere with their business.
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The cops are good, too, with their cheerfully matey dialogue and their probing offhand questions.
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L'ARPEGGIATA Christina Pluhar's ensemble plays early music with the offhand vitality of contemporary indie rock.
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Your offhand solution to the violence in our nation, this time in Pittsburgh, is repugnant.
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Offhand speculation about aliens tends to get vastly more coverage than anything else in astronomy.
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Kit accidentally hurts Sunny's feelings; she's businesslike and offhand, ready for the girl to leave.
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I was here because of an offhand comment from Dr. Auerbach, the toy museum director.
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Her mother says, in an offhand way, that it is time to start finding a groom.
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It includes outtakes, offhand moments, snatches of time when the camera just happened to be running.
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Bradford has transformed the whimsical into the catastrophic, its polar opposite, without losing her offhand humor.
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Its beginning had a quiet naturalness — modest, human-scale, almost offhand but poised, with no preciousness.
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At other times, I watched as an offhand comment became tinder for a divisive national conversation.
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Sometimes, as on "Twilight," he oozes into an offhand kind of singing, amateurish and deeply felt.
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Not so my wife, who insisted that her offhand solutions reaffirmed the absurdity of all puzzles.
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People knock analysis, or revere it, which either way obscures the field's gift for offhand illumination.
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When Bradley made an offhand comment about the Boston shootings, Hernandez became upset and standoffish, Bradley said.
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Which is why MHA doesn't really get into it very deeply, and mentions most of this offhand.
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Microsoft made no move at the time to shut down this offhand reference to an unannounced sequel.
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"That is a clear line in the sand; it differs from an offhand comment," she tells Broadly.
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They sometimes wear only part of a costume, more an offhand signification than an attempt at literalism.
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She tried to explain to Mr. Alexander how his offhand remark had triggered her most basic fears.
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If they're dirty, as Jessie is in "Jessie Bites" (1985), they wear their smudges like offhand adornments.
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Trump suggested offhand in a New York Times interview that the US shouldn't honor its NATO commitments.
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After watching an interview earlier this week in which Trump made an offhand racist remark about Sen.
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But after his offhand remark, aides sought to walk back the idea, saying it was merely notional.
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Injuries may be offhand, deliberate, even set up in childhood like bad genes waiting to switch on.
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These are the sorts of signals, not a leader's offhand comments, that matter most in international relations.
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He moves through Eliot's life on the charmed, offhand greatness with which little brothers often imbue big ones.
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I don't think, in the nuclear field, it's an area that lends itself to offhand or spontaneous comments.
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The more hopeful, but also more vague, answer comes in offhand comments and tweets from President Trump himself.
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But at least one of Atkin's devoted fans was caught off-guard by the hair pro's offhand confession.
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Like, one time this girl said something offhand, like, 'Why do they even call it a blow job?
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Jordan shuffled his feet, guiding Stoudamire to his left side, his offhand, and Stoudamire momentarily took the bait.
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If you find e-mails terse or colleagues offhand, in other words, it means you're a high performer.
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I'm also just really enjoying now that my kids are offhand and in their own lives and happy.
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Korede works with a physician called Tade, and she's angry when Ayoola seduces him with her offhand charm.
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And one aide suggested Trump only made the comment offhand after reading about Russia's expulsion from the group.
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Stone slipped free for dunks, hit a smooth jump hook and made a reverse layup with his offhand.
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It's said offhand and in the same way, Brits would habitually and accurately call themselves awkward and apologetic.
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Conceptual art was often without an object and had an afterlife in offhand black-and-white photographic documentation.
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Needless to say, that kind of rounded guess based on an offhand statement is unlikely to be reliable.
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Something about this whole human jumble drawer of cheap ironies and offhand beauty feels oddly touching these days.
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It was an offhand presidential comment about Russia, leaked to the news media, that led to an uproar.
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"Girl" is narrated in the easy, deceptively offhand, frequently lyrical first person that O'Brien's readers will find familiar.
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With a kind of offhand savvy, he simplifies Monk's harmonies and lets his ludic rhythms take the lead.
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And despite Kanye's own battle with mental health, the album cover's offhand comment about bipolar disorder is pretty insensitive.
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Observers were not sure if Trump's comments reflected a policy change or were just an offhand and unofficial rant.
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Then, an offhand remark in a closing sentence gave birth to a hashtag: "This is our reality," BART added.
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This is even more concerning regarding President Trump's offhand comment about wanting to remove U.S. troops from South Korea.
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Never mind Trump's offhand asides about shutting down the Internet and requiring Apple to manufacture iPhones in the USA.
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One could probably think, offhand, of 60 deserving alternatives for what's in the end a contestable, albeit noble, sampling.
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There is no hair braider, no hip-hop — not even an offhand comment about how white the town is.
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The other, an offhand comment about how it would be better if some people couldn't vote, was also derided.
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An offhand presidential comment about Russia, leaked to the news media, led to an uproar 33 years ago today.
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It also, ultimately, discourages communication if you're never sure what offhand remark might plunge you into somebody else's drama.
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Mr. Rowe blamed himself, saying that an offhand suggestion to a desperate, ragged Mr. Mulvany had been darkly misinterpreted.
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"Not every offhand comment indicating racial bias or hostility will justify" an investigation into jurors' deliberations, Justice Kennedy wrote.
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Our heroes are not going gently into that good night, frittering and wasting their hours in an offhand way.
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The Bladerunner inspired Blade Runner's title thanks to an offhand reference by screenwriter Hampton Fancher, but the similarities end there.
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But just as often, Trump inflicts pain in passing, as an offhand gesture in the course of pursuing something else.
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However, he described Christie's comment as an offhand remark in response to one of his supporters' questions on the call.
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Although it might seem offhand to hate on a fictional character from afar, it really took a toll on Best.
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That's not to say that Lee succumbs to the offhand improvisation of some abstract expressionists or Japan's antecedent Gutai movement.
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You glimpse Ms. Johnson's face only once, late in "Camera-person," in a moment that is both offhand and startling.
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On defense for most of the evening, Mr. Trump repeatedly widened his political vulnerabilities with offhand and ill-considered comments.
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But her celebrity is such that even an offhand remark can set off a fracas that she did not anticipate.
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Before the Bell House event began, I posted an offhand tweet about the fact that I would be covering it.
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Although they might just mention offhand that I've had my head bitten off by a dragon off-screen or something.
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In all seriousness, the offhand treatment of the modern manager would have offended the sensibilities of Clough, Busby and Shankly.
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In our interview, she made an offhand comment that haunts me: The war in Syria is a war against children.
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Despite all of these achievements, that offhand comment from a peer still kind of pisses her off, with good reason.
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"It accommodated destructive gossip, offhand comments, off-color jokes and behavior that in general was less than professional," he said.
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Officials said they wanted to make sure the standard ensures that claims are not lodged over unofficial or offhand comments.
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Mr. Clinton first rebuked her and then later dismissed her over an offhand answer she gave at an AIDS conference.
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By comparison, the pianist Yuja Wang's offhand dreaminess — she always somehow seems at once modest and virtuosic — crackled with vitality.
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"I'm not a good person," Anna Sorokin told me offhand, during one of two interviews at Rikers earlier this month.
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The designer Shaina Mote is taking her offhand yet thoughtful aesthetic down a level — to ankle height, to be exact.
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Mr. Trump's pronouncements are often so vague and offhand that their long-term impact on policy is open to debate.
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But its clumsy title (taken from a stunningly cruel offhand remark by one of Scott Walker's staffers) is painfully correct.
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"-- exploding across social media like a neutron bomb over the offhand implication ... that somebody somewhere is thinking of" a remake.
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US presidents in the modern era have seen singular sentences and offhand comments define global perceptions on US policies and leadership.
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There was the offhand suggestion at a CNN town hall that he would allow Saudi Arabia to obtain a nuclear weapon.
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But now, when his offhand joke reads like prophecy, the circumstances demand more than good-natured forbearance or a witty riposte.
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But, offhand we have had great success so far working with Equality NC Foundation, Astraea Foundation, Audre Lorde Project, Planned Parenthood.
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I don't know offhand, but I don't think that we promoted it in the bio to be any darker than usual.
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The students were on break, clustered out front in windblown scarves and bright plastic boots, smoking cigarettes with an offhand elegance.
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As ever, Adele displays how to do the most with the least — she is a master of the offhand facial expression.
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Even more striking is that it would be Rosenstein, not Trump, who loses his job over alleged ill-advised, offhand comments.
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Many have countered Johnson's interpretation with their own — this was simply an offhand quip and should be taken as a joke.
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Wrong, thanks to Gilly's offhand question about what "annulment" means in a scene at the Citadel that Sam Tarly foolishly overlooked.
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He has meanwhile raised doubts in various speeches and offhand remarks about his commitment to the United Nations and to NATO.
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Administration officials have long argued that foreign leaders should focus on the policies, not the president's Twitter posts or offhand statements.
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Malik's offhand suggestions that maybe President Obama could have done more for his Kenyan family have hardened into full-blown animosity.
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Then it's on to the interiors, still lifes, landscapes and garden views, all rendered in heated color and teasingly offhand brushwork.
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Whatever you come up with, make it sound casual, just something you came across that reminded you of his offhand comment.
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" Some may view Dr. Green's offhand description of hastening a person's death as, in her words, "a mark of our humanity.
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She has a brilliant ear for offhand description, the kind that immediately situates us in a location, or in a consciousness.
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Casual speech often includes offhand comments, partial observations, sarcasm, and false sentiments to either avoid argument or draw a subject out.
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Trump himself is a "good genes" guy, espousing — in his own anti-intellectual, offhand way — a genetic theory of heritable superiority.
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Even Madeline and Renata — the two characters most prone to scathing outbursts — express their unhappiness with longing looks and offhand scowls.
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She turned to photography, after noticing offhand how one of her friends, a painter, also had a camera in his studio.
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To win a championship is the only sure way to win power and love, and even a sort of offhand immortality.
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As Resnick has observed for Vox, offhand speculation about aliens tends to get vastly more coverage than anything else in astronomy.
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Look at so many of Julian's offhand remarks; you don't have to be Dr. Freud to see a power and victim complex.
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It is strange that a film called "A Star Is Born" should be so offhand about just how a star is born.
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Her friend thinks it's way too expensive (which it is), but makes an offhand comment about Nola's impulsiveness getting her into trouble.
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"The Blanchard story is so unique and specific that I don't know of another story offhand that checks those boxes," he said.
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Mr. Cheadle also generated headlines with an offhand tweet he sent to Chris Rock before the comedian hosted the Oscars in February.
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When a North Carolina secretary of state, Rufus Edmisten, ran for governor in 1984, he got in trouble with an offhand remark.
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Trump would apologize for an offhand remark he made when he was, say, a young and foolish 50-something reality TV star.
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That said, it's possible to make some educated guesses about the candidates' positions based on some offhand remarks on the campaign trail.
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She smiled and winked at me, just an offhand glance, and my heart was beating so fast that my hands were shaking.
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May's ministerial colleagues that Britain's diplomatic, strategic and commercial interests must override distaste for the American president's racism, misogyny and offhand bigotry.
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Hickenlooper didn't appear to mean any offense with his offhand comment, and seemed more keen on pushing the boundaries of the question.
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Elsewhere in Davos, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin unleashed market turmoil with an apparently offhand comment — that a weak dollar benefits U.S. trade.
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An offhand comment by Mr. Trump in the Forbidden City gave Mr. Xi a chance to promote his nationalist version of history.
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As Player recalled after taking part in the ceremonial first-shot ceremony Thursday with Nicklaus, there was nothing offhand about his reply.
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It was a profound moment for the show, presented in a surprisingly offhand manner, as part of the weekly pop-song montage.
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Front Burner Assuming you keep a well-stocked pantry, the casual, almost offhand nature of some typical Spanish fare can be yours.
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Immediately after fucking, I'd mentioned, offhand, that something sweet wouldn't be a bad idea, and Joel had gone over to the pantry.
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" Mishkin called Trump's comments "offhand" but added, "We don't know whether, in fact, the pressure could become more intense from the president.
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Indeed, Sally mentions offhand that she's going to lend her truck to some boys who want to drive others to the vigil.
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What seems offhand is actually the result of a highly sophisticated painter who I suspect has chosen to fight against her facility.
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However, Holocaust survivors know all too well that what starts as a protest or an offhand comment can turn into something far worse.
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"Trump's offhand, factually incorrect tweet about Boeing and Air Force One wiped a billion off share value," the actor said in a tweet.
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After publishing hundreds of photos from six visits to North Korea, it was an offhand comment that got French photographer Eric Lafforgue banned.
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The expression was usually uttered in an offhand way by Venezuelans as a joke, a motto of our characteristically joyous disregard for authority.
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He interprets the casual way rich Italians of a certain social stratum wear costly things by making pricey sportswear that looks vaguely offhand.
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But it's Savior's beguiling voice that really draws the listener in: Smouldering like Lana, offhand and confident, and gorgeous like sex rumpled hair.
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Process was to be emphasized; the look of the offhand, playful, and casual was cultivated, and associations with life and the world welcomed.
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" His ease of delivery makes even offhand menace sound comical: "Body take a week to find/the cops gon' be like, 'Never mind.
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Duncan mentioned the girls' reaction to an offhand remark she'd made: With the approaching summer, she had said, the sisters' skin would darken.
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Career slights (intentional or not), offhand-yet-cutting remarks, bitter friendship dissolutions; nothing is too small or petty when it comes to grudges.
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Walking through his studio, then, is only partially a revealing guide to the various offhand predilections that have preoccupied Nauman through his career.
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To this day, mentioning The Magicians offhand on Twitter often invites discussion of just what happened in that finale, some of it angry.
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But the following week's episode had an offhand line that suggested there was a kind of white-identity politics under the surface here.
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I love that offhand, 'I actually did write one of the articles of impeachment for Richard Nixon, but you know, no big deal.
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She didn't know any titles offhand and said, "You can't look up topics like that," when I asked her to search her computer.
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The idea originated from an offhand remark Goldberg made to Tommy Leonardis, her longtime business partner, about whipping up her own kooky seasonal knits.
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There have been only offhand references to the fact that the prosecution is led by Mueller's office; Mueller's name also has not come up.
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In 212, Mr. Stucky provided some revealing insight into his own music with an offhand comment before the New York premiere of his Symphony.
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For Christine, the loss of her husband, as well as offhand remarks from her late mother, led to her seeking comfort in sugary treats.
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But the first conflict is resolved with an offhand shrug, and the love story gets maybe two minutes of screen time, and no resolution.
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As is often the case with offhand remarks that turn into maxims, the origin of It's not a bug, it's a feature is murky.
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It was 1960 and Toronto police officers were questioning the high school teacher about an offhand comment he'd made regarding a student's ripped pants.
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The film's most telling direct-to-audience remarks are the offhand comments that even the film's director and writer have set up shell companies.
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THE PHILOSOPHER GUY I was legitimately criticized for an offhand remark about philosophy, so I've been reading books about philosophy, trying to catch up.
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His clean designs — uniform-inspired tailoring, geometric knitwear and quirky prints — may appear serendipitous and offhand, but he painstakingly mines his inspirations for content.
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I'd recommend, offhand and obviously without having seen it, the latest from the choreographer Justin Peck, who has a new ballet receiving a premiere.
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The proposal, at the end of the day, was little more than an offhand pipe dream by a member of Trump's National Security Council.
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But even if you're not a serious gamer and just want to jump in and play, don't be too offhand about making your alias.
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Now, it's become a place where video of an offhand remark can rapidly hit maximum velocity, exposing him to critics as it goes viral.
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" Dr. Lyons keeps cats as pets and did mention, in an offhand way, during our conversation the common observation that "Cats rule, dogs drool.
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It's slickly produced, but since they shoot in a real house and have obvious chemistry, finishing each other's sentences, it feels casual, even offhand.
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In the novels it takes you by surprise, happening in an almost offhand (but utterly frank) way that renders it all the more horrible.
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"Colossal" has such an easygoing, offhand vibe, and takes such pleasure in its characters' foibles, that it camouflages its deep subject, which is rage.
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These schisms are rarely deliberate — rather, they are sparked by a director's cut of a popular film, an offhand remark made in an interview.
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The health secretary&aposs offhand comments are damaging for Labour, which is hoping to deprive Boris Johnson of a majority in Thursday&aposs election.
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Queen Elizabeth's 98-year-old husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, has found himself in hot water over offhand comments to the press.
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The most important shots in Ava DuVernay's undeniably flawed but undeniably fascinating A Wrinkle in Time are the ones you might not notice offhand.
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It amounts to just "an offhand six-word statement", he said: Mr Trump remarking "we all know what that means" after signing the executive order.
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Ms. Curtin is at her best when Cy is quiet and offhand, but she spends a lot of her time yelling and dutifully delivering exposition.
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It'd be easy to dismiss as election-season pandering, but Siemiatycki said you'd be surprised how many transportation projects get kickstarted by an offhand remark.
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Offhand comments inform us that she has been a model for Surrealist artists and has sneaked into classes at the Slade to learn her craft.
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The clinicians on the call viewed this as a self-stigmatization, but instead of dismissing it offhand, they talked about how to work around it.
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Mr. Whittingdale has also made offhand comments that have indicated a deeper animus, as he did recently to Conservative students at the University of Cambridge.
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But his tweets that will follow and his offhand comments in the days to come will tell us what the real Trump thinks and feels.
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" Knights describes his freewheeling feelings toward life on earth much more aptly with an offhand Buffett lyric: "In a hundred years it all won't matter.
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A mentor, Yiannis Boutaris, of the family that owned Boutari, dropped an offhand remark that stayed with him: Retsina can be a wine of quality.
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I firmly believe there's a relevant "Calvin and Hobbes" strip for every moment, and I'm irrationally proud that I can usually think of one offhand.
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Offhand, I am not aware of any White House staff member in recent history who has had such an important and diverse array of responsibilities.
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The shadow health secretary&aposs offhand comments are damaging for Labour, which is hoping to deprive Boris Johnson of a majority in Thursday&aposs election.
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The music here is tactile and warm: erotically lush disco on "Montana," offhand Southern gospel on "Young Man," casual country-funk on the title track.
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Yes, the camera takes quality photos, and the waterproof feature is one you come to appreciate in the offhand chance you actually have to use it.
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In perhaps the weirdest subplot of America's wild presidential election, an offhand comment by Vladimir Putin seems to have had a similar effect on Donald Trump.
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Last year's deal between America and Iran to restrict the latter's nuclear programme, and Mr Obama's offhand tone about the Saudis, deepened their fear of abandonment.
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"To have these kinds of offhand remarks shows that this is a systemic issue at Takata," said Mark Lillie, a former Takata engineer and whistle-blower.
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Enty, the blog's anonymous proprietor, describes his design choices, and the fact that the site exists at all, as an offhand decision that was barely intentional.
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It's not just his vehement stance on the importance of therapy; it's the offhand and completely unembarrassed manner in which it becomes part of the conversation.
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It is a neat syncopation of visual rhythm, offhand figuration, and multi-media blending that delivers a vision that feels unique, challenging, and deeply, authentically Detroit.
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Apple could have created a funny TV ad, tweet or even made an offhand quip on stage while launching the Apple iPhone 7 and 7 Plus.
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And she condemned Obama for his offhand clinging-to-their-guns-and-religion remark as well as for his fidelity to the controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright.
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Mr. Trump's offhand comment about "Second Amendment people," which was widely interpreted as a joke about assassinating politicians, was a case in point, Mr. Fleischer said.
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Not really focused upon as much is an offhand remark made by Larry Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council, in a recent television interview.
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Except not quite: Mr. Shimizu's speedy offhand technique continues, as does his love of white canvas, either bare or shining through his often dry-brushed flora.
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It also struck me that being casual doesn't mean being offhand, and that what looks like it was done in one session isn't necessarily the case.
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But I get frustrated when people who identify as cultural or secular Jews praise Pope Francis's every ambiguous, possibly-poorly-translated offhand comment to the heavens.
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Imagine, however, that we only had one offhand comment, plucked at random by a journalist, to document everything there was to know about Warhol, or Lichtenstein.
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As we learned in The Philosopher's Stone, when Rowling chooses to repeatedly mention a character in a seemingly offhand way, she's doing it for a reason.
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And Ms. Macdonald is quite simply a revelation, capturing the reflexive self-confidence and defensive diffidence of the millennial generation with sneaky sincerity and offhand wit.
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But offhand comments from General Moghaddam's colleagues and family members in the Iranian media seemed to imply that his work had quietly continued, the researchers say.
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I can't think of any major titles offhand where it's a requirement, but motion controls do enhance a number of popular Switch releases, notably Splatoon 2.
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In the third movement he joined Ms. Tetzlaff's coppery earthiness and Mr. Vogt's velvety delicacy for an offhand opening that led to a gauzy, endearingly awkward dance.
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Economists argued that the forecasts made by punters with money on the line were likely to be more considered than the sometimes offhand responses given to pollsters.
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It uses "little things" to make people feel small: from offhand remarks criticizing how a woman talks, to telling a transgender person they're using the wrong bathroom.
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IBM didn't have recent workplace diversity statistics offhand, but its website says women make up 29 percent of the total workforce, and we've asked for more numbers.
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The first episode is savage in its opening: Jimmy doesn't remember saying "I love you" to Gretchen, and when she says it offhand, he's astonished and repulsed.
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In the emergency room, a doctor asked me in an offhand tone if anyone in my family had ever died suddenly and unexpectedly at a young age.
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This is the most important next step, since the exercise decision and its casual, offhand announcement are going to terrify our allies in the region and beyond.
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That's followed by an offhand reflection on making a leaf-shaped ashtray in grade school that becomes a well-turned shaggy dog tale, complete with punch line.
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That he managed to respond to such offhand cruelty with firm resolve and even grace speaks to the extraordinary strength of character his teammates leaped to defend.
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Loping around the stage with eyelids at half-mast, he hides his swagger behind an offhand style, but he's smart enough to let the mask slip periodically.
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Hours before Trump made his offhand remark on Tuesday, his press secretary Sarah Sanders issued a statement saying there are "no current plans" to release the memo.
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When I've mentioned, offhand, to friends and social media followers that I'm really enjoying the fourth and final season of Mr. Robot, they've expressed a mild shock.
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At one point, Trump made an offhand promise to cut foreign aid to the countries where people trying to enter the United States illegally were coming from.
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Reviving fire and fury rhetoric There's always the possibility that Trump's offhand comments are part of a strategy designed to intimidate Iran to enter talks with his administration.
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Over the previous weeks, he'd started making offhand references to a number of ex-boyfriends, a point of insecurity for me that I'd been meaning to bring up.
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Former Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies loves a good drama — and he seems to have stirred one up with an offhand comment during an awards show interview.
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In Mr. Sadler's and Mr. Buse's hands, clothes in imported Italian and Japanese textiles were outsize, dissonant (pinstripes over camouflage), layered and so offhand they seemed ill-fitting.
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Sometimes it's an offhand homophobic comment from a coworker, an inability to respect one's preferred pronouns, or a general office culture that suggests that some are not welcome.
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Trump's stay will last just 26 hours, but that's more than enough time for a misstated word or offhand comment to change the entire tenor of the visit.
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It feels natural to follow Eduardo—even though I'm averse to this particular deli, which I know to be a busy, cavernous, impersonal establishment with an offhand staff.
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And with financial professionals constantly searching for a new way to trade faster, an offhand remark from a politician can move billions of dollars in value in seconds.
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He makes an offhand comment about us living there together someday; I don't know if it's just because I'm sick, but it throws me for an overwhelming loop.
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Economic conservatives are unhappy about Mr. Trump's indifference to shrinking the size of the government and alarmed by his offhand reference to withdrawing from the World Trade Organization.
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Then there's the dishevelled, Partagás-smoking Finn, who makes an offhand reference to the "Act of '53" as a law deals with the citizenship status of artificial intelligences.
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Cavill made what I'm guessing was an offhand comment to the The Times about the sorts of things that women say to him on the streets these days.
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Last December, at the departmental party, Wallace had made some offhand comment about Miller's outfit, called it something like the folk costume of the Greater Midwestern Trailer Park.
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Teachers participating in the training said that student beliefs about racial genetic differences at their schools surface in offhand pronouncements about who can dance and who is smart.
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At a White House meeting with sheriffs from around the country, the president made an offhand remark that seemed to suggest support for aggressive state asset forfeiture laws.
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The offhand but calculated precision with which she reveals all the little poignant moments in her paintings may delay our registering the 1960s soft-porn clichés of her scenarios.
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"We will win because we're part of a movement that is embracing new, progressive ideas rather than rejecting them offhand as 'idealistic,'" Lauren Hitt, Nixon's chief spokesperson, tells Refinery20143.
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But it was an offhand gift from his wife that enabled him to picture his future: a set of watercolors and a paintbrush he could hold in his mouth.
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Mnuchin, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the Treasury Department, had yet to give his opening statement before the Senate Finance Committee when an offhand remark by Sen.
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Like those films, "Cane River" invites a rethinking of American film history, and also, in its disarmingly offhand, uniquely charming manner — of other aspects of American history as well.
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Like everybody else, he has no time to think: The book's title comes from an offhand comment to a friend whose tardiness allowed a few welcome minutes of contemplation.
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The board's move sends a signal Tesla is seriously considering going private, but it does little to mitigate some of Musk's past, offhand remarks, management guru Jeffrey Sonnenfeld said.
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Trump's offhand remark was a stark reminder of the eternal risks to the people in his orbit, particularly as the notoriously unpredictable president navigates the delicate politics of impeachment.
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But these familial connections were important to his mom, Sophia, a woman who would make offhand comments about the "dastardly Yankees" and tell stories about the accomplishments of Confederate forebearers.
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An astute sensibility informs what seems casual, even offhand: the blue of the ice cube trays stacked on top of the orange pedestal, the green plastic bottle in one corner.
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The revelation that Mark has lost most of his memory, for example, arrives surprisingly late, and it's delivered in an offhand way that never comes back around to a payoff.
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" Josh Barro, Business Insider: "If someone said offhand 'this is part of Russian gov efforts to help you' & you were unaware of such efforts wouldn't you say 'the what now?
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Aaron Rodgers' now-iconic, offhand "I feel like we could run the table" quote from Week 11 carried his Green Bay Packers to eight straight regular- and post-season wins.
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The Flyme OS email app expects the user to manually input IMAP or POP settings when adding email accounts — does anyone outside of an IT person remember those settings offhand?
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In other words, these were not just offhand comments but part of an effort to unleash the base of the party in an attempt to undercut the credibility of Republicans.
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As Kobayashi listened, characters and narratives emerged from the distortion, and, based on offhand comments about culture and holidays, she gradually traced these unmoored ghosts back to the early 5113s.
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Of course, that's the same NBC show that, the week before, edited out an offhand reference to actor Kevin Spacey, which was suddenly made awkward by the allegations against him.
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Assuming those were things everyone experienced when they got high, he put up with it, until an offhand comment to an allergist led to the realization that he was allergic.
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There was the offhand remark by the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, about the "female assistant" who would question Dr. Blasey — actually a seasoned prosecutor of sex crimes, Rachel Mitchell.
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"India's decision to make this big move on Kashmir when it did was likely influenced in great part by Trump's offhand mediation offer," says Michael Kugelman of the Wilson Center.
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The basis for much of American jurisprudence and legislation about sex offenders was rooted in an offhand and unsupported statement in a mass-market magazine, not a peer-reviewed journal.
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But while Trump once again threw Washington into a tizzy with tweets and offhand remarks, the policymaking train continued to chug forward with significant developments on taxes, health care, and trade.
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The group's Elders are pasty middle-aged men in suits; they are so offhand about the world's sinners being obliterated that they could be talking about an end-of-year bonus.
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Despite a lengthy tutorial prologue, many of Horizon's most useful tips and tools are buried in the game's opaque menus or mentioned offhand in text blurbs that appear on loading screens.
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Yet Trump — who is actually tweeting with the supervision of several campaign aides — decided to try to start a random feud with Kelly about an offhand remark she made on-air.
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Trump himself has made offhand comments that some took to be comments about "Second Amendment people" shooting Clinton, and some of his supporters have given similarly grim statements to the press.
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Donald Trump has displayed a nearly unprecedented weakness as chief executive — the Potemkin president's offhand comments on various matters have nothing to do with the actual conduct of the Trump administration.
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In fact, the only other time it's even vaguely mentioned is in an offhand comment in season 1, with Kimmy saying that yes, there was "weird sex stuff" in the bunker.
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Commentators can be useful for anyone who doesn't know the judo points system offhand, or to explain that, say, the Ukranian men's gymnastics team really was acting unusual the other night.
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No, the filmmaker Halliday most reminded me of is one curious for his absence from Ready Player One, save for an offhand reference to Star Wars' famous Millennium Falcon: George Lucas.
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Each story gets at least one, a wordless, full-bleed double-page spread that illustrates, extravagantly, either a large motif or an offhand moment from its story in richly textured paint.
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At Dior Mr. Jones can design clothes like this resplendent shirt, so offhand as to seem skate-rat generic, yet rendered at a level of skill commonly associated with the aristocracy.
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In an Exeter, New Hampshire, town hall, Biden told the crowd he's willing to keep the option open, even if he couldn't name a worthy cross-the-aisle veep candidate offhand.
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In a post-film Q&A session at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, Milott and Murnion said they were inspired by an offhand comment about secession from former Texas governor Rick Perry.
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"Climate change" brings up significantly more results, but it's almost entirely a string of negative offhand references, including some external quotes from news reports and mentions of Obama-era policies being rescinded.
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King built up an entire civilization to explain Roland's tragic backstory, and the film reduces that entire history to one brief scene, which feels both curiously offhand, and detached from the movie.
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The nomination first came to light on Friday, when during an address to the nation declaring a national emergency, President Trump mentioned offhand that Abe had nominated him for the prestigious award.
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More than one presenter will make an offhand joke at the end about Russian interference, but that's all it will be — a joke — lest the presentation sound a little bit too conspiratorial.
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I heard Vi Heart once make an offhand comment at the Game Developers Conference about how part of the reason first-person shooters are fun is the abstraction of input to output.
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A follow-up email sent from Glacier's Lauren Alley to Facebook's Mains suggests that Zuckerberg or someone else asked about temperature rise during the visit; no one was able to answer offhand.
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The onetime phenoms — rookies of the year in consecutive years, Strawberry in 1983 and Gooden in 1984 — tell their stories with an offhand frankness, as if describing what they had for lunch.
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But with this particular offhand and baldly inaccurate comment, the president landed himself in the company of other presidents and presidential hopefuls who have fumbled while trying to showcase their everyman appeal.
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One thing we can agree on though, is that it'd be awesome to trust Elliot again, because unreliable narrators can only pull so many tricks before you start to dismiss them offhand.
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Though their jokes tackled the expected timely topics — sexual harassment, Roseanne, representation — they were delivered with an offhand lightness that robbed them of their deserved weight, and thus dulled their comedic impact.
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"Big Baby D.R.A.M." is full of offhand riffs on several decades of black musical styles — "Get It Myself" leans in on a sort of D.I.Y. gospel harmonizing, filtered through 1970s electro funk.
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In what seemed like an offhand remark during an interview with The Economist magazine, Prince Mohammad, then just 30 years old and the deputy crown prince, announced that Aramco would go public.
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In one speech, he suggested offhand that sanitation workers had a more dangerous job than police officers — strictly true, according to a statistic he had been given about on-the-job hazards.
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His guilt comes up in sodden flashes ("Two additional lives would be too little to cleanse my character, to go the rounds of amends"), but more often a clueless, offhand cruelty prevails.
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" Helen Hare, a spokeswoman for the Sinema campaign, said her comment on Hancock's program was "clearly offhand and an effort to get back on the topic of why she opposed the war.
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Such was their chemistry that an offhand remark might get whipped around the infield and churned into humor, but always flavored with the cynicism of the jaded staff at an independent record store.
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Often, it's small micro-aggressions — an offhand homophobic comment from a coworker, a colleagues' inability to use your preferred pronouns, or a general office culture that implicitly suggests that you really don't belong.
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Safechuck had already mentioned the wedding offhand to Reed in their first interview, but talking about it again, in more detail, while actually holding the ring itself, hit Safechuck like a freight train.
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" Much to the chagrin of the middle class professionals waiting for their morning caffeine fix, Dave Grant's tongue-in-cheek response to my offhand question—"Is human flesh compatible with a vegan diet?
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The well-traveled Venezuelan has a keen eye for the kind of offhand style that's incidental to generations of taste and privilege, and each image is a glimpse into a life well lived.
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Other scenes show Ms. Perez, Mr. Ruiz and their daughter eating baked pasta leftovers for lunch; the couple discussing how a relative's offhand comment stung; and the pair falling into bed together, exhausted.
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Mr. Trump told the British prime minister, Theresa May, "If you travel to the U.S., you should let me know," an offhand invitation that came only after he spoke to nine other leaders.
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Too smart to take itself seriously, the Bristol collection — shown on models of diverse ethnicity and gender identification — had an impious, offhand quality about it that someone like Malcolm McLaren might have approved.
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"I definitely thought he was cute in an offhand way, but I was also 22004 and I thought, he's so old," Ms. Thornburgh said of Mr. Maxwell, who was 24 at the time.
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Many politicians and experts have been mistaken in drawing broad strategic conclusions (usually dire) based on reaction to short-term Trump tactics, such as a fiery tweet or a candid offhand remark to reporters.
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In order to get the cop off his back, Joe pretends he is a wealthy Greenwich type with his own boat — he's able to rattle the name of the specific kind of boat offhand.
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Unfortunately, a computer still has to interpret whether those fingers are spread quite enough to mean you want to grab something in VR, or whether some offhand motion matches a gesture you recorded earlier.
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Were he not so vehemently opposed to Trump, Obama could give the billionaire a lesson in how a single remark or offhand equip on issues of national security can haunt a president for years.
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When a resistance member impliedly tortures a cultist at one point, it's played as a quirky offhand detail, while the cult engages in over-the-top monstrosity like making children eat their own parents.
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Being cool meant not just cultivating an aesthetic of detachment, which Pavement had down in spades anyway, proving in every offhand song and every inside joke that they did not care what people thought.
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What begins as craft for a poet eventually has to become second nature — and in later poems Ponsot found that the offhand remark, the small scene deftly rendered, could suggest more than suggestion can.
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For as many outrages as he perpetrated, Mr. Trump's offhand and compulsive style was a bracing departure from the usual on-message lobotomies that candidates inflict, and millions of voters rewarded him for it.
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Jackson acquired it when he bought the ATV publishing catalog for more than $40 million in 1985, some time after Paul McCartney made an offhand remark to Jackson about the value of music publishing.
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But sometimes, she admitted, it got complicated: She would make a mental note of tidbits he mentioned offhand, or gossip with him about Capitol Hill, or throw out a fact and gauge his reply.
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Carina Sevebjork Saur, 57, who has been teaching at the school for a year and a half, said she often catches herself saying the wrong thing, like an offhand compliment on a child's appearance.
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So when Mr. Madani revived the controversy with his offhand rebuke, Egypt's Foreign Ministry blasted back, calling the statement "regrettable" and a "grave transgression," and vowing to review its relationship with Mr. Madani's organization.
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" Helen Hare, a spokeswoman for the Sinema campaign, told CNN that Sinema's comment on Hancock's program was "clearly offhand and an effort to get back on the topic of why she opposed the war.
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President Trump's offhand comment last month about how dreadful things are in Sweden provoked an outraged reaction from Swedes rightly proud of the country's longstanding commitment to accepting refugees from all over the world.
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But overall, this data tracks with information from many other surveys and offhand comments — namely, that most viewership on Netflix gravitates toward audience favorites that first aired on other networks, which Netflix itself doesn't own.
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Early into the film's terrific first hour, Chris and Rose run afoul a bullying bigot of a state trooper—an offhand encounter that drips with the implicit (and sadly headline-topical) threat of police brutality.
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Always Be My Maybe is the result of an offhand comment Wong made in an interview three years ago, saying she and Park wanted to make their own version of the 1989 rom-com classic.
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Goffman turned to the driver, who was black, to ask — in the offhand way you might ask an Uber driver about his experiences with the company — ''What have your local experiences with racism been like?
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It is, in its own way, the most quotable movie of 2017, to the degree that an offhand thing Alma writes on a receipt for Reynolds ("For the hungry boy") has become a minor meme.
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Nearly every article you read about Your Name, a 2016 Japanese animated film that made its American debut April 7, will mention, offhand, that it's one of the biggest films of all time in Japan.
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When you make an offhand comment or joke about wanting to lose weight from a stomach bug, there's at least a 4% chance that person you're talking to could be struggling with an eating disorder.
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There's a great deal of sexism in it, but it's of an offhand and unreasoned variety; that doesn't excuse it, but this is not a worldview so much as it's a bunch of dumb words.
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Arwa Mahdawi, the founder of the site, told Refinery29 that she was inspired by an offhand comment someone in the advertising industry once made to her (Mahdawi works at an ad agency in New York).
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But he also made an offhand comment that, if taken literally, would amount to rejecting the very underpinnings of the global financial system and would threaten to undermine the United States' two centuries of creditworthiness.
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Although the Savannah College of Art and Design is currently running retrospectives of her work on its campus and in Atlanta, in keeping with her offhand elegance, Herrera refuses to see herself as an icon.
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Ideally, the show will be one that rewards multiple views, as little details, offhand lines of dialogue, take on a significance in the grand scheme that maybe they didn't seem to have in the moment.
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In Washington, lawmakers of both parties were either aghast or chose to ignore Mr. Trump's suggestion on the assumption that it was yet another offhand remark just to stir the pot, not a serious initiative.
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Nacho Vigalondo's comedy "has such an easygoing, offhand vibe, and takes such pleasure in its characters' foibles, that it camouflages its deep subject, which is rage," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.
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The bar's French piano player broke out the handful of Irish tunes he knew offhand while guests clinked glasses of Guinness and shared worries about their loved ones enduring the coronavirus pandemic back at home.
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Marian Tavares, who reportedly has a 0.5 percent stake in the land, didn't know about either the land or the lawsuit and "didn't know what to make of the situation offhand," according to the Star-Advertiser.
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This 1958 debut feature from Louis Malle is also laced with the self-consciousness of the then-budding French New Wave, with a discursive plot, offhand references to French colonialism and a stylish Miles Davis score.
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It was the essence of a Bill Cunningham photo essay, one of those image surveys that, though they sometimes seemed serendipitous and offhand, had been harvested as assiduously as any field study conducted by trained anthropologists.
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Speaking at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Tuesday, Donald Trump made an offhand comment that "Second Amendment people" might have some unspecified way to stop a President Hillary Clinton's judges from abolishing gun rights.
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With 218 minutes expired on Thursday, he had already amassed 22 points, sinking a pair of 237s that paled next to an offhand banked hook shot that he set up with a behind-the-back dribble.
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They initially went through four band names in about a month (including 8 Bit Ghost and The Petty Organs) only to settle on a moniker inspired by an offhand comment by Trevor Walker of The Tracks.
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For his part, Yang said Monday the "model minority myth obscures the vast diversity in the Asian-American community," and that he doesn't think anyone believes his "offhand remarks" reflect the viewpoints of every Asian person.
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It gives the public a sense of the White House's thinking on the nuclear standoff with North Korea and, because the speech is prepared, probably a more complete picture than isolated Trump tweets and offhand comments provide.
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In terms of what it implies for the future of Game of Thrones, it's easily the most significant sex scene in a series with no shortage of them, but it's carried out in an almost offhand manner.
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After first wowing markets at his March 10 news conference with a bigger-than-expected easing package, the European Central Bank president then muddled the message with a seemingly offhand remark that rates may have bottomed out.
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The sole visual in the app while it's in use is a constellation-like artwork by Victoria Burge, and just by offhand comments on the weather or political events can you guess when a voice was captured.
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The writers do, at the very least, try: at one point, Luke and Magna exchange names of communities and destinations they've survived and fled, similar to if Carol or Daryl mentioned Woodbury or Terminus in an offhand comment.
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The story regularly introduces characters like Hellboy's partner Esteban (Mario de la Rosa), or his spirit-medium acquaintance Alice Monaghan (American Honey star Sasha Lane), with offhand references that suggest the audience already knows them from previous stories.
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Haddish is a stand-up comic at heart, so it's not surprising that much of the speech was filled with jokes and jabs as she adjusted her dress and made offhand comments, all with a drink in hand.
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But the strong response to the slur, whether intentionally uttered or not, and the speed of his station's firing him -- two days after his remark -- show the powerful emotion around the slur and casual, offhand utterances like it.
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Donald Trump's zest for making offhand quips about his intentions on serious policy matters has launched the United States on a grand experiment: What happens when the world doesn't understand what the American president is trying to say?
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There are subsidies that come from the surplus at bridges and tunnels, from the MTA, and other types of motor vehicle fees that we don't normally think of offhand, like the gas tax, taxicab fee, and autorental tax.
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Though the title Emo Diaries may seem like the kind of offhand happenstance that helped shape the public's perception of a scene, Szuch's past as an investment banker meant that he knew an opportunity when he saw one.
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True, he lacks the black South chocolate that would normally flavor such an offhand drawl and relaxed flow—his very male timbre is more redolent of a northern office grunt shooting the shit over a six o'clock beer.
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I don't really know what prompted it; maybe it was seeing Larry David on the cover of GQ or a friend's offhand mention of an episode in which Jeff Garlin gets confused for Harvey Weinstein at a party.
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OFFHAND AUTEURThe Sacramento native Greta Gerwig moved east to go to Barnard, then soared through the D.I.Y. film industry as a buoyant, intrepid actress and writer; her 2017 directorial debut, "Lady Bird," was nominated for five Academy Awards.
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I experienced that pride a bit when I wrote something offhand on Twitter about how locals were ending conversations by telling me to "be safe," and that I got the impression that no one walked around after dark.
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The vagueness of Mr. Trump's posting made it difficult to assess its possible impact on American foreign policy, and further illustrated the potential dangers in setting policy, especially on such grave matters, in Twitter bursts and offhand remarks.
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Haring took to telling friends, with bitter wonderment, that he'd been arrested four times for marking, yet, as a sassy but nice white lad, he was always let go with, at worst, offhand insults to his unconcealed gayness.
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Always Carry Sriracha and Nipple Covers After three years working with the PLL star, Rosenman has picked up a thing or two about what Shay might need offhand, and keeps them all pretty much everywhere she might need them.
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The social media accounts for the current Broadway production, which stars Nathan Lane as Cohn alongside Andrew Garfield as the reluctant prophet, Prior Walter, latched on to Trump's offhand question, incorporating "Where's my Roy Cohn?" into an ad campaign.
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In a desperate attempt to destroy his reputation and impugn his character, liberal journalists pored over his hundreds of published articles, media appearances, and offhand jokes, pulling quotes stripped of any context to make him seem sexist and racist.
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But at other times, seemingly offhand remarks are actually new policies, like when he tweeted that he wanted to ban trans people from serving in the military—the Pentagon wasn't sure he was serious about that, but he was.
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Her offhand references to famous friends like Oscar de la Renta and to second homes, and her obsessive focus on professional women and tech entrepreneurs, weren't too relatable to my experience as a low-income member of the precariat.
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It is unusual, if not exceptional, for short stories about female subjectivity to become quite as popular as "Cat Person" — but it's very normal for all kinds of stories to include offhand statements about how fat people are gross.
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And President Trump's offhand remarks in Singapore — not only about withdrawing 32,000 American troops from South Korea but also about canceling a forthcoming joint-military exercise — serve as a reminder that the American presence is not an immutable fact.
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Josh and Alex are smug masters of offhand bragging: about their oh-so-modern arrangement, about their busy Manhattan lives (Josh is a theater director, Alex a graduate student in chemistry), about the baby they're expecting with a surrogate.
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I don't doubt that people have said upsettingly snobbish things about your hard-earned degree, but I also think you're blowing up a few offhand comments, when it's likely that no one really cares where you went to school.
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Popularized by scholar danah boyd, it describes how the internet "flattens multiple audiences into one" — if you're browsing Twitter, for example, an offhand comment from your friend sits right alongside a statement from the president of the United States.
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King once referred to critics perceiving him to be "a rich hack," a perception that bears out in horror writer David Schow's offhand 1997 description of him as "comparable to McDonald's" — intended to characterize King as horror's pedestrian mainstream.
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Unfortunately for Mr Biden, the offhand way that committee treated Ms Hill has been picked over since Christine Blasey Ford testified to it last week about her alleged long-ago assault by Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee.
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Former defense officials told BuzzFeed News that the offhand way Trump seemed to announce a major personnel policy change — which would usually be explained by senior civilian and military leaders, in front of cameras — was as shocking as what it said.
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Until Mercury goes direct on August 18, make sure to guard your heart, keep offhand comments in perspective, and, if you can't help but engage in a little gossip, double- and triple-check who's in your group text before hitting send.
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During this time, prompted by an offhand remark in Hamilton's letter, Price had toyed with applying game theory to biology (this work, taken up and developed by other scientists, actually helped move evolutionary biology forward much more than his equation).
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It was a surprisingly peaceful summit, but Joan can't resist feeding an offhand comment her rival made — Bette said she doesn't care about awards, which of course she does — to Hedda Hopper, who spins this straw into a gossip gold.
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Early this week, People Babies unveiled an interview with former first daughter and current Today correspondent Jenna Hagar on the subject of family — which was predictably non revelatory, save for an offhand remark she made about her dad, George W. Bush.
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Rønnenfelt sums up the band's evolution to this point in an offhand comment he makes to me, pulling the coat tight around himself once again, looking—and, crucially, feeling—like an utter anomaly in this dull east London beer garden.
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The British historian Ben Macintyre has still given the best critical appraisal of the dossier, in an offhand comment to the New York Times, based on what he says were his conversations with other graying manes from Her Majesty's Secret Service.
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Many of the same vehicles flown recreationally are also flown for commercial or other purposes, so it is impossible for a law enforcement officer to tell offhand whether it qualifies as a model aircraft or an aircraft authorized by FAA rules.
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It is tempting to say that these illusions—the offhand dehumanization of the mass of players and its consequences, the equally casual superhero-izing of others and its consequences—will be the thing that kills the NFL, if anything ever does.
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There are a lot of things that he said during our conversation that touched me, inspired me, and bugged me out, but the one that stands out the most was an offhand but telling remark he had during the photo shoot.
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There's also not much evidence, save for a few offhand remarks in which he claimed support from federal workers and a tweet in which he called them "GREAT PATRIOTS," that the President will be moved by their tales of deprivation.
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Boxes of slides have been sent in without contextual details; other times, moving personal recollections are paired with the images, including offhand notes, like "mom's birthday," and affectionate recollections, like an American husband describing his experience in Japan to his wife.
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The movie began with an offhand remark that Wong made in a 2016 New Yorker article about how she and Park had always wanted to do their version of "When Harry Met Sally" but had never gotten around to it.
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More recently, her offhand comment while presenting this year's Best Director Oscar nominations of the all-male nominees ("Congratulations to those men," she deadpanned) put her back in the position to field questions about the state of inclusion in her industry.
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To my regret, I sent an offhand tweet reporting that an infant is the third wheel in our regular tastings, only to receive a bunch of grave warnings from concerned followers about the fatal risks of feeding cakes to newborns.
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A little clay bust and two mixed-media works on paper by Marisa Merz, the only woman here — and one of the few Povera artists who did rely on inexpensive materials and offhand techniques — are among the more unruly contributions.
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Autobiographical elements abounded; the designer, who distributed a photograph of herself at age 3 with her father rather than traditional show notes, said the offhand pairing of crochet dresses over trousers reflected her own style and that of her friends.
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In perhaps his greatest song, "Just One of Those Things," from 1935—it's a song that Holden Caulfield, who likes nothing, likes—the verse is an offhand sequence of references that were not quite commonplace then: Dorothy Parker, Heloise and Abelard.
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His former aide Steve Bannon is a fan of "The Camp of the Saints" and refers to it often — in knowing, offhand ways that betray both his familiarity with racist literature and his awareness of his target audience's reading habits.
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Run by the Costes family, owners of the Beaumarly hospitality group, it has made something of an art out of catering to the style/celebrity industrial complex in the sort of offhand way that requires enormous amounts of care and concentration.
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But most of all, it's worth taking Trump on Russia literally, not as the offhand ramblings of an ignorant celebrity candidate but as reflecting essentially the closest thing to a considered policy view that we are going to get from Trump.
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Not his bombastic speech at the United Nations in which he vowed to "totally destroy" North Korea, or his offhand vow to rain "fire and fury" on Pyongyang if it continued to threaten America or its allies, but his Twitter account.
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With its focus on the entertainment and distraction business, and its offhand dismissal of the visual, the art world fails to recognize that Wurmfeld's devotion to exploring every facet of color is no academic interest, but an expression of passion and curiosity.
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He mentions, offhand, a discredited theory called the bicameral mind, in which the ancients supposedly confused their own inner monologues with the voices of the gods, and he says that Arnold hoped to use such an idea to "bootstrap consciousness" in the Hosts.
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The stunning, almost offhand comments, made during a news conference hours after his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, contradicted countless previous declarations by U.S. political and military officials over the years that the drills are routine, defensive and absolutely crucial.
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I won't go into the particulars of my family history — of who was publicly castigated, who was sent away to labor camps, who was separated from their families — in part because I understand the stories only piecemeal, in offhand references, through secondhand sources.
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From the discussions and offhand conversations with entrepreneurs at the conference, McCluney says her takeaway was in witnessing how the business ideas of Black women in Detroit may not garner the same returns that are valued in other tech spaces (mainly financial returns).
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For reasons that are probably worth a separate conversation, I think the media systematically underestimates how telling and predictive the product of these kinds of processes is, and systematically overestimates how telling and predictive a candidates' offhand comment on a hot mic is.
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It was just one offhand moment in one debate, and it would be unfair to write off Sanders based on that alone, but the dissonance with his stated ideals is still concerning, particularly how frequently vague he has been on foreign policy.
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Although interestingly, I think about that because I was given mostly positive references on someone a long time ago I hired and it was one sort of offhand one, I ran into someone who had worked with them and they said something.
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She now has an opening to communicate in more concrete terms how she would bring about broad prosperity — and to attack some of Mr. Trump's more controversial proposals, like his offhand suggestion that the United States print more money to pay its debts.
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James Dodson, a longtime golf writer from North Carolina, said offhand in a radio interview that Eric Trump, who oversees the golf courses for the Trump Organization, told him in 2013 that the Trumps relied on Russian investors to back their golf clubs.
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As a country, we have normalized school shootings so much, made books and movies out of them, make offhand comments about how that guy 'looks like a school shooter', that we are rapidly becoming detached to the horror that we call our home.
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An offhand: "Well, you know what middle school boys are like" — despite my never having mentioned my son or his age; or adding "No offense" after making a negative comment about a sorority I belonged to in college and later wrote about.
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Subsequent sequels, tie-in novels, interstitial TV shows, video games and fan fiction have lovingly ground this charm out of existence with exhaustive, literal-minded explication: Every marginal background character now has a name and a back story, every offhand allusion a history.
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But Pichai's answer is best understood as an offhand reference to limiting the number of outright hoaxes that appear in Google results (such as the moves the company took to limit the spread of mass shooting conspiracy theories), not a call for mass partisan censorship.
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But some economists on the left agree with Cheney that deficits don't matter—at least not as much as more jobs and prosperity for all—and their views are getting newfound attention because of an offhand comment by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
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Virtual architecture tells stories no less than the real variety: Like stained-glass windows in a medieval cathedral, even what seem like offhand choices — like Google's choice of its Doodle subject, to cite a different new media entity — point people toward particular icons, particular ideals.
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Already there is the offhand metaphorical extravagance, as if it's merely natural and straightforward to describe oneself as a tunnel or a root, and a pressing awareness of the injuries of class society, the romantic frustrations of poor young men not least among them.
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Trump's recent confrontations over trade tariffs, his offhand comments this weekend that the EU "is a foe" of the United States, now coupled with the denouement of his diplomatic integrity at Putin's feet, will look to many like the start of a new world order.
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" When the reporter pressed him, asking what was so humorous about his experience, Wodehouse "said he could think of no particularly amusing incidents offhand, but that his talks were intended to present the lighter side of camp life, 'for instance, washing one's own clothes.
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There are moments when Pius will say something that sounds like actual heresy — like, say, that he doesn't know if he actually believes in God — and attempt to pass it off as an offhand quip when the believer on the receiving end blanches with horror.
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In a review of her last show, Fear of Waves, which was her debut at CANADA (January 9–February 14, 2016) almost exactly a year ago, I wrote: Bradford has transformed the whimsical into the catastrophic, its polar opposite, without losing her offhand humor.
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Even the birth of the restaurant was a little offhand: In the midst of moving the location for Mercado 24, a market-driven restaurant that's also in Zona 2003, there was a lag time of several months and the staff needed to have income.
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I kept most of this to myself until the last day of the review, when I made an offhand, passive-aggressive comment to the lawyer about how ironic it would be if my new characters were mistaken for real people other than the originals.
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Beyond Philip's charm and wit, beyond the joy of talking to him about anything and everything — sharp and eloquent and funny, funny, funny right up to the end — it was these kinds of offhand reflections about craft from a master craftsperson that always struck me.
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I'm happy all over again every time Tony Stark references it to remind The Avengers of how bad things can get, or Agents of SHIELD builds an episode around a recovered weapon, or Jessica Jones makes an offhand reference to aliens falling out of the sky.
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Offhand comments from President Donald Trump rocked the market for Puerto Rican government bonds Wednesday, after he seemed to suggest that the creditors of the island—which was in a deep economic crisis even before it was hammered by hurricanes last month—would likely be wiped out.
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Later, I'd chat with HIV-positive friends, and they'd mention their diagnosis in an offhand way, over donuts or micheladas or tortas or beer, or they'd chalk it up to making up for lost time, or getting lost in the midst of making up for lost time.
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All it takes are a few offhand comments (or outright declarations) about the choices siblings have made, and it becomes clear who mom thinks is the Smart One, who dad thinks is the Responsible One, and in Tiffany Trump's case, which kid might be the Disinherited One.
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No matter that these are proud, capable women, presumably trained to withstand this and more, it's hard to see a woman being hit — often paired with an offhand hiss of "bitch," or "slut," just to make things particularly uninteresting — and not to make associations with domestic violence.
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin got a searing reminder of that this week when an apparently offhand comment, that a weak dollar benefits American trade, helped plunge the currency to a three-year low and touched off a flurry of speculation about the Trump administration's economic plans.
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But it's the offhand remarks about cult figures like Yotam Ottolenghi (who admits to a weakness for drugstore candy and claims to have had more trouble mastering pastry than he did, as a philosophy grad student, tussling with Hegel) that move Kramer's writing from informative to irresistible.
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Young also tells Parr offhand during a brief conversation at his daughter's home that the city will start sending letters to people who refuse to mow their lawns, and levy fines against them –– a jab at people looking for buyouts who've bought homes elsewhere and skipped town.
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The brief presents a still deeper issue on Page 77, explaining why the Fourth Circuit, in concluding that the travel ban amounted to unconstitutional religious discrimination, was wrong to take into account an offhand statement President Trump made when he signed the first travel ban order.
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" But Roman's greatest offhand remark this week may be the flatulent sound he emits in response to Shiv's concerns about Rhea, which he then reinforces by scribbling the word "fart" on hotel stationary and handing it to his sister … "In case you want it in writing.
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But Biden's statement Monday that he'd be open to choosing a Republican running mate -- as offhand or pandering as it may have been -- underscores just how much of his appeal is rooted in made-for-TV fantasy like "The West Wing," rather than modern political reality.
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Although Hama is a one-man-band who composed the album on his laptop, his offhand complexity and textural range are those of an ensemble, perhaps a brightly and surrealistically dressed band of keyboardists and drummers playing plastic, multicolored Dr. Seussian instruments, with loops and ornaments.
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He made an offhand remark about it during a sendoff for Deputy Attorney General Rod RosensteinRod RosensteinWhy the presumption of innocence doesn't apply to Trump McCabe sues FBI, DOJ, blames Trump for his firing Rosenstein: Trump should focus on preventing people from 'becoming violent white supremacists' MORE last week.
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The Daily Mail is focusing its marketing efforts on the over 65s, hoping to make a life preserver out of the rising life expectancy of its majority female readership — a following largely inspired by its deliberate, offhand meanness, specializing in articles written by women for women who hate women.
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Coming across the book's offhand mention that oranges have been scarce "since Central America was lost to the Libertheos," you can spend twenty pages wondering about Gilead's import-export structure—and, all the while, the existential diminishment of the utterly ordinary Offred is quietly lighting you on fire.
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" The commission says that although the law "doesn't prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments, or isolated incidents that are not very serious, harassment is illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment or when it results in an adverse employment decision.
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Finney (47 at the time, playing a man much older and more weathered) spent enough time in these provincial English theaters to know his character through and through, and the film feels like a story told from the inside out, full of lived-in moments and offhand accuracy.
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The set consisted of rows of dirty red velour theater seats, and for three and a half hours, the actors walked up and down them with brooms and dustpans, unfolding their hopes and failures in the offhand way that can happen in the weird proximity of a workplace.
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Here is what the scandal shows us about the hivemind inside this White House: The "scandal" began when Trump made an apparently offhand press conference remark about how Barack Obama (and maybe even George W. Bush) supposedly didn't call the families of military members killed in the line of duty.
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He takes an offhand anecdote from Chris Craft, former director of the Johnson Space Center, about how Jimmy Carter saved the shuttle to brag to Leonid Brezhnev and instead of tweeting or spewing out it as a quick take, he chases down all the threads, including talking to Jimmy Carter.
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The president last month made an offhand remark about rhyming the nickname in an interview with Fox News host Sean HannitySean Patrick HannityTrump calls Juan Williams 'pathetic,' 'always nasty and wrong' Chris Wallace becomes Trump era's 'equal opportunity inquisitor' Maher stands by recession remarks: 'Very worth' getting rid of Trump MORE.
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In offhand remarks, Mr. McConnell has expressed a sense of bewilderment about where Mr. Trump's presidency may be headed, and has mused about whether Mr. Trump will be in a position to lead the Republican Party into next year's elections and beyond, according to people who have spoken to him directly.
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You can fly to the Montana ranch all you want, but so long as your art and image are part of the public sphere, they're subject to the new dynamics of pop culture criticism, in which whiteness no longer insulates artists from the blowback of their decisions, iconography, interviews, tweets, or offhand quips.
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Such is the power of the Buddhist political establishment that when John Amaratunga, the minister of tourism, wildlife and Christian religious affairs, made an offhand comment in an interview about the organizational differences between Buddhism and Catholicism, aides spent 10 minutes explaining why publishing the remark could prove disastrous for communal relations.
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With the term "treasonous" having been uttered by Stephen Bannon (referring to a meeting involving Donald Trump Jr.), and with Robert Mueller's investigation getting close to the president himself, I believe that Mr. Trump is purposely using the term in an offhand way so as to trivialize it, empty it of its gravity.
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In past years, Apple had some issues with shipping both the AirPods and HomePod within the time horizon they had detailed earlier, but Apple gave an awful lot of details about this product in its tease last year and it's peculiar that it didn't even get an offhand mention at WWDC or today's event.
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The show's tone shifts abruptly in the space of a scene or a plotline; one episode toggles between Earn and Van on an awkward date and a drug deal between Paper Boi and the members of the real-life Atlanta rap trio Migos, the latter of which is punctuated by a gruesome offhand murder.
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Asked about a memorable moment that landed differently in the wake of the two women's deaths, Ms. Nevins cited an impromptu Christmas Eve duet of "There's No Business Like Show Business," as well as a more offhand scene where Ms. Reynolds and Ms. Fisher, out for a walk, realize they are wearing the same shoes.
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The complaint vanished quickly enough into the swirl of offhand upset that surrounds the Knicks in general—the barnacle-encrusted grumperies their chief executive steers towards any open mic, the perpetual sense that at any moment the team is poised to make an unforced and extremely expensive mistake—and which naturally follows a loss like this.
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That's definitely one of the tactics he uses in "The Entire History of You," which presents its hero Liam as cruel and destructive as he pursues his suspicions about his wife's infidelity, but also shrewd in the way he uses his lawyerly intuition to unpack the layers of meaning in every casual gesture or offhand remark.
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But as North Korea tests nuclear weapons and cyberthreats from Russia engulf discussion on the campaign trail, the Clinton team is creating an argument that Mr. Trump is not just lacking in foreign policy experience or dishonest in his boasts, but is reckless in his oratory, making offhand remarks that could have grave consequences for the country.
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Offhand, from the top of my head I cannot tell you where I'm at right now, but in terms of my shows, these are 1,500- to 2,500-people venues that I've sold out, the Town Hall in New York is a big venue, and most of my audience is American-speaking, so my shows are all in English.
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When I meet trans people for the first time, especially in mixed company, I'll sometimes try out this line where I mention Animorphs offhand, as if I don't take it seriously, as if I didn't spend the majority of my first puberty wishing that I were turning into a bird or a tiger instead of into a young woman.
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Christine Blasey Ford's claims that Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers while he was drunk have drawn attention to a speech he gave four years ago in which he discussed heavy drinking at Yale Law School — and to an offhand remark about his high school days that he made during another speech.
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On the second day of his brand-new (and ultimately short-lived) gig as White House communications director last July, Anthony Scaramucci appeared on CNN's State of the Union morning show, where he made a bizarre offhand comment (the first of many, it would turn out) addressing the state of newly-minted press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders' hair and makeup.
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"When I start a painting I'm usually thinking about a specific occurrence, an offhand comment that sticks, the experience of eating a banana in public, the smell of rain making mud at a horse show, choking someone who asked for it, or the electric feeling of a caress from someone I'm getting to know," Klingbeil reveals to The Creators Project.
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Mnuchin, President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's pick to head the Treasury Department, had yet to give his opening statement before the Senate Finance Committee when an offhand remark by Sen.
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His tweets and offhand taunts are the very essence of trolling — the lies, the scorn, the invective, the trash talk, and the rabid non sequiturs of an angry, aggrieved, isolated, and deeply self-absorbed adolescent who lives in a self-constructed bubble and gets the attention he craves from bashing his enemies and trailing clouds of outrage and dismay in his path.
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Clinton would experience that firsthand over and over again, especially as her husband Bill Clinton grew as a public figure: giving up her maiden name in an attempt to please Arkansas voters, making an offhand remark about cookies and tea that sparked major controversy, receiving endless skeptical questions from television interviewers about whether America was really ready for an "opinionated" first lady.
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But the story of Russia and the Trump campaign became something that had more meat to it than offhand remarks friendly to Vladimir Putin right around the party conventions in the summer of 2016: If that were the end of the story, more detailed revelations about collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government might not actually be very significant.
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Warren's email came after Trump made the offhand remark during a Monday event held in the Oval Office meant to honor Navajo Code Talkers who served in World War II. "You were here long before any of us were here," Trump said while standing beside three Navajo veterans who worked with the U.S. Marine Corps to come up with a secret code during the war.
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As I watched, I realized these weren't just random or offhand comments; they're the last gasp of a political elite that's been radically out of touch with the lives of normal people for most of the 21st century, increasingly inept at explaining the enormous pain and discontent felt by the working- and middle-class voters who make up the base of the Democratic Party.
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During Ewing's run on The Ultimates (20183), a series about a band of superheroes (including Monica and Carol) who are dealing with cosmic threats, Monica manipulates her energy form to actually enter Thanos's brain to try to kill the Mad Titan: It appears that Fury's seemingly offhand comment about Monica learning to "glow" is actually a reference to her awesome powers in the comic books.
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The first pope of the social media age, Francis was able to use an offhand remark (rather than, say, an encyclical or the proceedings of the synod) to galvanize international media attention: prompting a conversation about Catholic attitudes toward LGBTQ individuals while sidestepping the bureaucratic and doctrinal challenges inherent in any actual dogmatic reform (challenges that, as we will see, would become more apparent later in his papacy).
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Regardless of any offhand comments President Trump may have made suggesting his administration wants NASA to fast-track a manned mission to Mars — "We want to try and do that during my first term or, at worst, during my second term," he said during a conversation with astronauts last month — technological and fiscal realities suggest that NASA won't be fielding such a mission any time in the foreseeable future.
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After attracting attention for the heavy-handed allegory and explicit sexuality of "Japón" and "Battle in Heaven" (both showing on Saturday), this Mexican provocateur moved into an unexpectedly serene direction with "Silent Light" (on Sunday), a contemplative tale of extramarital longing in a Mennonite community, and the enigmatically structured, synopsis-resistant "Post Tenebras Lux" (also on Sunday) — all the while never abandoning his magnificent eye for landscapes or offhand surreality.
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Yet they are exquisite; the bits of visual information punctuating the perimeter of "Wires 210" (256 x 217 inches, latex ink on silver vinyl mounted on Dibond; 2016) dance around a drooping scrawl of power lines as casually weighty as any offhand-but-not-really Cy Twombly painting, while an unexpected silver orb just inside the bottom edge — possibly, a finial atop a distant spire — is incongruously volumetric.
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A young Welsh recruit, Shaw, freaks me right out by speaking in an offhand way about his career plans eight or ten years down the line—"My local regiment is actually right next to me in south Wales, so I'm hoping to get into that when I'm 20 or something, 25"—and the rest of the Junior Soldiers are similarly calm about their long-term career prospects in the Army.
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Many of the aforementioned buildings are open for special events surrounding the festival, and when I ask around, older shopkeepers happily say things like "The goths are like family to us!" and make offhand comments about how they smell like patchouli, sounding like grandmothers speaking about a slightly weird but very nice cousin who visits once a year and brings them an antique orb that they don't really know what to do with, but appreciate nonetheless.
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Offhand, it is hard to imagine another garage in New York City with 19 planters on a publicly accessible roof, many with recycled teak seating set into their sharply angled concrete walls; a 336-foot-long vertical garden planted with a half-dozen species; a panoramic view of the National September 11 Memorial; a sapling propagated from the horse chestnut tree that Anne Frank could see outside her window in Amsterdam; and a Greek Orthodox shrine designed by Santiago Calatrava.
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Speaking to the lawyer representing Colorado, Kennedy, who is expected to cast the crucial swing vote in the case, homed in on an offhand remark made by one of the state's seven commissioners on civil rights at a July 2014 hearing: Freedom of religion and religion has been used to justify all kinds of discrimination throughout history, whether it be slavery, whether it be the Holocaust, whether it be—I mean, we—we can list hundreds of situations where freedom of religion has been used to justify discrimination.
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You've really got the read the full transcript here to see, first, how hard Sanders works to avoid articulating a policy for an ongoing war that he would definitely inherit if he became president, and second, how he wanders between making offhand observations about Afghanistan without offering any real thoughts on what to do about it: MODERATOR: Obviously you've been emphasizing this difference on the Iraq war, but one place where you do agree and you voted to authorize the use of force was in favor of the war in Afghanistan.
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