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Raising public calls to battle, and especially civil war, is an occupation that requires careful and judicious thought, not offhanded and spontaneous eruptions from the gut.

My response consisted of some offhanded commentary about not believing in gender segregated wilderness trips.

Perhaps the biggest improvement is the lengthening of the barrel from 14 inches to 18% inches, with the resultant weight and balance change making a steadier gun for offhanded shooting which is easier to hit with than the original version.

Accounts suggest that what had ultimately been positioned as a chance meeting and an offhanded question at a party led to Anderson agreeing to learn the role of Ulrica (fig.

The play closed within days, and he said it was "completely buried under Tallulah's offhanded trademark campiness."

I'm referring to an easy, chip shot, any junior high cheerleader could make offhanded. Before I share my secret, let's first take a peek at how--and why--we miss in the first place.

Gregory makes the point with an offhanded but revealing metaphor: in allegory, he writes, divine thoughts are "cloaked" or "clothed" (vestiuntur) in earthly words, so that by examining "exterior descriptions" we come to "interior understanding." (35) The clothing metaphor, framed as it is by the interior/exterior distinction, goes to the heart of the Song's erotic power.

(14) Thus, the offhanded way that Critias claims temperance for Charmides: "Charmides not only outstrips his contemporaries in beauty of form but also in this very thing for which you say you have the charm; it was sophrosyne, wasn't it?" (15) Whatever is good, Charmides has got it.

It was observed that the renovation work was left half-way in most of the schools and colleges due to non-payment of long-delayed bills and the resources were being lost to damage incurred by offhanded usage.Pakistan Today also learnt that the during the restoration work at most of the girls' schools ,water connections were not provided due to which the staff and students were facing problems.

Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and other Confederate figures, and his offhanded indictment of U.S.

Like other kids in Utica, Baker helped out on the farm and he talks about agricultural equipment and crop rotation in the same offhanded, familiar manner that kids on Long Island talk about summer camp and trips to the beach.