In June 2011, John Carmack made an offhand comment that id software was considering a remake to the "... mixed up Cthulhu-ish Quake 1 world and rebooting that direction.

McLain ’ s descent into his gambling obsession was further precipitated by an offhand remark made during an interview: that he drank about a case of Pepsi a day.

Shaw's offhand response was, " Tell ' em I'm insane.

The play was well received by both council and actors until Kean seemed to have a change of heart and began to make several offhand remarks that his part was not big enough for him.

Woodward testified the information was given to him in a “ casual ” and “ offhand ” manner, and said that he does not believe it was part of any coordinated effort to “ out ” Plame as a CIA employee.

On the other hand, Franck experienced some tensions in his faculty life: he tended to teach composition as much as he did organ performance and improvisation ; he was considered unsystematic in his teaching techniques (" Franck never taught by means of hard and fast rules or dry, ready-made theories "), with an offhand attitude towards the official texts and books approved by the Conservatoire ; and his popularity among some students provoked some jealousy among his fellow professors and some counter-claims of bias on the part of those professors when judging Franck's pupils for the various prizes, including the Prix de Rome.

War was one thing, the offhand manner in which the Khmer Rouge dealt out death, so contrary to the Khmer character, was quite another.

He even beat Lasker with the Black pieces at Saint Petersburg in 1895 and at Augsburg in 1900 ( however this was an offhand game, not a tournament game ): 1. e4 e5 2. f4 d5 3. exd5 e4 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. Qe2 Bd6 6. d3 O-O 7. dxe4 Nxe4 8. Nxe4 Re8 9. Bd2 Bf5 10. O-O-O Bxe4 11. Qg4 f5 12. Qg3 Nd7 13. Bc3 Nf6 14. Nh3 Ng4 15. Be2 Be7 16. Bxg4 ( see diagram ) Bh4 17. Bxf5 Bxg3 18. Be6 + Rxe6 19. dxe6 Qe8 20. hxg3 Bxg2 21. Rhe1 Bxh3 22. Rd7 Qg6 23. b3 Re8 24. Re5 Bxe6 25. Rxc7 Qxg3 26. Kb2 h6 27. Rxb7 Rc8 28. Bd4 Qg2 29. Rxa7 Rxc2 + 30. Kb1 Qd2 0 – 1

" This was an offhand reference to the close of the weeknight CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, who always ended each news telecast by saying, " And that's the way it is.

Theodore's choice of his sister Anna " Bamie " Roosevelt was not an offhand choice.

Salem did not ask for the money and had only mentioned offhand to Ungar he was in the midst of a nasty losing streak.

Interestingly, when Marechera returned from London and was made writer-in-residency at the University of Zimbabwe, his mother and sisters attempted to come and meet him but he rejected them offhand, accusing the mother of trying to kill him.

Former President of DC Comics Paul Levitz has stated: " The Western program was enormous — even well into the 1970s they were taking very large numbers of DC titles for distribution ( I recall 50, 000 + copies offhand ).

The look of the aliens Bele and Lokai was decided only a week before filming began, on the basis of an offhand comment from director Jud Taylor.

Eugene Levy's Earl Camembert character on SCTV was named after Earl Cameron, but otherwise bore no resemblance to Cameron -- the name was merely an offhand joke designed to get a laugh from Canadian viewers.

At first offered as a casual, offhand remark, the concept was taken seriously, as the Centre for Bhutan Studies, under the leadership of Karma Ura, developed a sophisticated survey instrument to measure the population's general level of well-being.

Katin makes an offhand remark that indicates the board game Monopoly ( which was invented during the early 20th century ) is still in existence, and has even been adapted to the future society.

Thelma's squabbles and offhand disregard for daughter Eunice and Eunice's husband, Ed, and son, Bubba, was the ongoing theme of The Family sketches.

Later, the Falcon discovered the Viper in his home after tracking his alias ( through an offhand comment made by the Viper indicating that he was involved in advertising ) and captured him.

It was an offhand revelation from this official, who is no partisan gunslinger.

The second specific comment was the report of Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals, titled Goals For Americans.

It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.

Our comment was that this was `` featherbedding '' in its ultimate form and that sympathy for the railroad was misplaced since it had entered into such an agreement.

Ulyate made no comment but his face showed what he thought of poking ropes over lions' heads with poles, and of course these were the lions of fifty years ago, not the gentler ones of today, and this one was angry, with good reason.

Casey made some comment, but his mind was busy as he considered the man.

Downtown and art theater managers and owners, contacted Friday night for comment on the COAHR request, said they had no knowledge of such a letter, and that it was not in the Friday mail.

Lincoln's comment on the signing of the Proclamation was: " I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper.

" His best known comment on the subject was recalled on his death:

Jardine's comment was: " I've not travelled 6, 000 miles to make friends.

He was generous to the poor ; it was his custom to comment severely in his preaching on the public characters of his times ; and he introduced popular reforms in the order and manner of public worship.

Albertus was the first to comment on virtually all of the writings of Aristotle, thus making them accessible to wider academic debate.

When the students were asked to comment on the accuracy of the test with a rating more than 40 % gave it the top mark of 5 out of 5, and the average rating was 4. 2.

The architectural style is a mixture of Victorian Gothic, Tudor and Dutch Baroque and was the subject of much bemused comment from those who worked there, or visited, during World War II.

Bernard would later comment that Gerard was his most formidable opponent during the whole schism.

Lord Saville declined to comment on the Widgery report and made the point that the Saville Inquiry was a judicial inquiry into Bloody Sunday, not the Widgery Tribunal.

The couple had refused to comment on the nature of their relationship, and it was not known whether they were married or not.

In this article, he also defended a comment made by Professor Griff in the past that he says was taken out of context by the media.

To ensure that Cromwell's character used current slang, DeMille asked Horace Hahn to read the script and comment ( at the time, Hahn was senior class president at Los Angeles High School ).

It shows the influence of Walter Scott, and Brontë's modifications to her earlier gothic style have led Christine Alexander to comment that, in the work, " it is clear that Brontë was becoming tired of the gothic mode per se ".

No doubt one of the attractions was that the game could be played by both sexes ; this also ensured a certain amount of adverse comment.

" Chocolate Cake ", a humorous comment on American excesses that wasn't taken well by some US critics and sections of the American public, was released in June 1991 as the first single.