Sentences with phrase «offhand comment»

We've all made offhand comments about our addictive relationship with this or that game, our inability to put it down and the fact that sometimes «one more round» can turn into «Jesus, it's 3 am?

From not knowing where to send clients, to making offhand comments that should NEVER be made in the first place, the patient - provider aspect of the PFD story is crucial.

It is hard to have that invalidated by offhand comments from either side of a debate.

Mayoral candidate Bo Dietl provoked outrage last night with a seemingly offhand comment at the Manhattan Republican Party's mayoral candidate forum.

Kermit Pattison: Bob Sutton once blogged about how as CEO you came to appreciate the importance of small gestures like offhand comments or greeting people in the hallway.

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.

The film's performers are all - around excellent (McShane provides an anchor of subtlety to some of the shrill histrionics, and Winstone exudes potent personal angst from simple offhanded comments like ordering calamari), but it's Kingsley's menacing and humorous performance, a brutal force of near poetic nature, that reveals new layers with each viewing of the film.

But this ostensible ticking - clock scenario is also handled with such half - assed neglect that it's easy to forget that it's even a factor until one character or another makes helpfully offhanded comment about it.

Sometimes we have days where we're a little bit more on edge and an offhand comment might rile us up more than it normally would.

Before you write off her offhand comments as hot air (or fizzled champagne), remember that she sits at the helm of an astronomically successful app empire.

This wasn't just a media pundit making an offhand comment — this was a high - ranking administration lawyer making a formal public statement.

My friend did not know that his offhand comments about King's personal life were new information to me.

I have always liked the idea of a summer kitchen, but it wasn't until an offhand comment by my spouse that I realized my grill could be a summer kitchen.

Perhaps because of his father's condition, Couples was particularly concerned about an offhand comment Bren had made regarding her health.

You may think an offhand comment about your child's weight, intelligence, or other abilities means nothing, but it sticks with them.

But do we really want everything we've done online — offhand comments, camera - phone snaps or embarrassing surfing habits — to be preserved for posterity?

«A professor may make an offhand comment, but it can resonate with fears that women are feeling,» Aronson notes.

That offhand comment marked a turning point in his life and minimalism began that day for Joshua and his family.

On a Thursday night, I made an offhand comment about how much I just wanted to be on a beach in Mexico and a few minutes later the trip was booked to leave on Saturday!

«An offhand comment can stick with us for a lifetime,» she astutely observes.

I really hope this movie works like music biopics where an offhanded comment from a supporting character leads to a Eureka moment.

This leads him to make an offhand comment about defecting, which throws even more turmoil and suspicion onto his relationship with Elizabeth.

One moment the man Mazur is drinking with is laughing, staring at women and the next he is stabbing or shooting or maiming someone who did nothing but make an offhanded comment.

In that respect, Drunk History has a winking charm that reveals a welcome dose of self - awareness, like when it takes a storyteller's offhand comment and turns it into a verbatim prop (e.g., a newspaper headline of «THE 1812, UH, WAR»).

There is, of course, the offhand comment in the beginning that plays a part in the ending sequence (pay attention to what the students say in the lab), and plenty of scenes with Pfeiffer looking scared.

What an offhand comment to come from some writer who I am sure could not direct the funeral dinner scene in this movie.

This Eureka moment emerges from an offhand comment, but if -LSB-...]

'' [Author] John R. Hale was a freshman at Yale in 1969 when an offhand comment from the legendary classics professor Donald Kagan changed the direction of his life.

He made the offhand comment, «blue light wreaks havoc with your brain.»

I've heard an offhand comment being made, that a company can only issue dividend after it's first operating year.

Were it not for an offhand comment, the Loyal Biscuit Co. might not exist today at all.

Jesse Divinich, a man who apparently works for a company that represents Rockstar Games and Take - Two, made an offhand comment about the possibility...

Last week, in the comments under the Bless optional subscription brouhaha article, I made an offhand comment that apparently got MOP commenter Sally's gears grinding.

Most intriguingly, in an offhand comment, he hinted there may be smartphone integration with the new game, which is due out this holiday season (which we're less and less skeptical about).

But that was minor compared to the unexpected way in which an offhand comment by David Zwirner was blown up into a confused discussion of how to shore up the position of smaller galleries in the art market.

Never - the-less, its seems a stretch to equate the offhand comments in real time of an independent blogger with a film involving probably a hundred people (including those who commissioned it in the 10:10 organization), commissioned in an official and thoughtful act (after all this had to be months in the works), and funded in part by the British government.

We know this: Every holiday season some of our readers make some offhanded comment at a party, to the effect that, well, global warming (or its effects) appear to have been a bit overblown.

But like his assertions on climate change, his offhanded comment about the Prius is more than inaccurate.

I remained particularly alert for situations where a team member understood a change in priorities but hadn't confirmed the reality of the change — e.g., taking an offhand comment as a directive.

The Ontario Court of Appeal recently made some offhand comments (or «obiter») on the issue:

The Ontario Court of Appeal recently made some offhand comments (or «obiter») on the issue:... We were advised that the HRTO does not normally record or transcribe its proceedings.

Indeed, these are precisely the kind of «isolated incidents» and «offhand comments» that the Supreme Court has warned «will not amount to discriminatory changes in the terms and conditions of employment.»

When a person like former Lotus Formula One development driver Carmen Jorda talks about how women are less capable as racing drivers than men — and she does, a lot — there's an urge to treat it as an offhand comment with no merit.

It was an offhand comment, but it got me thinking.

This week Elon Musk made an offhand comment which revealed that he did, indeed, own a stash of bitcoin at one point.