offhandedness

One of the locals, a slave who helped me, Jason said with an offhandedness he did not feel.

There was an offhandedness to the way that clay objects were made and used in eras past.

What shocks me is the offhandedness with which the assessment is offered.

And for all his offhandedness, he was impressed.

Despite the careful offhandedness of the question, Johnstone turned and smiled knowingly.

Never had a harrowing event-to-be been heralded with such offhandedness.

"I just wondered," Pam said with obvious offhandedness.

Its crafted offhandedness is as studied as Warhol's most casual work.

That explains some of Marius's gruff offhandedness about this nephew by marriage!

Their overdone casualness and offhandedness towards each other.

What starts the downward progress is immaterial," Frank would say, with his irritating offhandedness.

The sheer offhandedness of his remark left the entire Mearan royal family speechless.

Bagnall was not about to let the pilot outdo him in offhandedness, not this time.

Their offhandedness is legendary.

The stage direction of Fabrizio Melano was filled with such offhandedness.

I asked Raphael, the only student who has been there longer than I. "That's what the man told me," he said, pleased under his offhandedness.

A triumphant bridge dismisses the dignity of labor and worker solidarity with an offhandedness seemingly calculated to offend idealists.

'Evie,' I said with quiet offhandedness, 'how'd you like to see me bicycling?'

Vance spoke with the offhandedness of complete uninterest, and drawing up a collapsible wooden chair sat down lazily.

The nurse at the lab had seemed to know exactly what she was doing, and Dr. Hill's offhandedness in speaking about her hadn't quite rung true.

The gaunt, unsmiling Mr. Weller looks exactly right and brings a perfect offhandedness to his disarming dialogue.

Another is his allegiance to a post-Abstract Expressionism that paradoxically mixes a slacker's offhandedness with an almost designer elegance.

Home too, of the legendary drifting tornadoes which pass across this uninterrupted flatness with the casual offhandedness of a juvenile hustler.

Time magazine's Richard Schickel wrote, "the movie bobs along on this stream of funny offhandedness, never losing its balance.

But "101 Nudes" is charming precisely because of its lack of pretension and offhandedness; later in his career, the artist often tried too hard not to please.