offhandedness

His attitude was summed up when as he left the dock after the verdict he approached the gaps in the glass and shouted to the public gallery: 'I'll be out in three years - tell my mum I'll be out in three years, easy.' Who this was aimed at we don't know but for us to hear and see that behaviour after everything he had put us through just added to our feeling that there is no respite from his offhandedness and couldn't-care-less attitude.

Al Taylor's artistic prowess was manifested in the careful offhandedness of his compositions.

That offhandedness that you see, which eventually bores, is a position.

As Latane demonstrates, the "characteristic pose of Fraser's is a combination of offhandedness and erudition in the service of independent and satiric takes on politics, religion, and books" (124).

Beyond the essays on American poets like Marianne Moore, beyond the epitaph inscribed in the AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park, beyond his post at The Yale Review, beyond the Stanford fellowship, the Berkeley years (teaching undergraduates while in full leather chaps), the home-on the Hill in San Francisco, lies an essentially American, post-confessional approach to the home, seen most clearly in the final volume written with his last creative juices, and seen in his intimate offhandedness, an effect seen throughout his work where a-figure in a dream, held closely to, might be a man or your mother.

(34) And sure enough, McCloud reflects exactly the 'arty offhandedness', 'lofty freedom', and 'casual facility of ...

In Urdu literature humour and satire are conspicuously observed for the first time in the letters written by Ghalib where frank humour and offhandedness are quite domineering.

It's also the rare thriller that actually gets more expository as it goes on: At first it assumes the audience is familiar with attorney-client privilege, only to pause later on to explain it in detail, and a late-breaking twist is revealed and then disregarded with almost comical offhandedness.

He notes simultaneity, inextricable relation, offhandedness and informality as part of the meaning, and adds: "I wonder whether they do not constitute also a sort of instinctive defense invoked by his talent against one of its worst faults, a hollow rhetoric" (91).

With a pitch-perfect prose line, at once sinuous, witty, and stylish, that coins the most striking metaphors with the understated offhandedness that recalls vintage DeLillo, Rose Alley gathers us within its enthralling premise and leaves us content within its illusion of completeness.