offhandedness

There is a certain irritating sort of journalist - perhaps unfairly, Zoe Williams of the Guardian is the first name that springs to mind - who affects an adolescent offhandedness in his of her writing.

Simon Titley: Against jargon 2009

The offhandedness, that slightly dismissive tone, the idea that food in fiction is a trend that will pass, pained me.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Food-centered fiction vs adding recipes for local color 2009

Oh, not really, she says, such offhandedness, then adds, Though I have been seeing more of him than I expected, frankly.

Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010

Speaking to French about the way his wife had reacted to his giving an interview about his years as “a great prostitute man,” he says with magnificent offhandedness:

Cruel and Unusual 2008

Speaking to French about the way his wife had reacted to his giving an interview about his years as “a great prostitute man,” he says with magnificent offhandedness:

Cruel and Unusual 2008

Oh, not really, she says, such offhandedness, then adds, Though I have been seeing more of him than I expected, frankly.

Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010

Speaking to French about the way his wife had reacted to his giving an interview about his years as “a great prostitute man,” he says with magnificent offhandedness:

Cruel and Unusual 2008

The coldness of those words, the offhandedness, almost destroyed me.

The only ones: Escaping near death Interviews by Charlotte Northedge 2010

Yet there is an offhandedness and ingrained antiaesthetic bent to Mr. Golub's approach, as if he is concerned more with his convoluted messages than with making a self-sustaining work of art.

His Bark Is Worse Than His Bite 2010

There is an interesting and almost funny offhandedness here: It would not have been surprising if she had picked up a rolling pin and beaned him with it.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010