With little or no preparation or forethought.
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During the past two weeks she'd gotten used to his impromptu visits.
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Without such assistance the D major section of the impromptu is insignificant.
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He held a sort of impromptu reception in the little railroad station.
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The house became an impromptu camp for the rest of that day.
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The impromptu part of the programme began earlier than it was advertised.
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That said; it's possible that an offhand comment will actually be useful!
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But offhand, I can't see a situation such as you describe arising.
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I did not minimize that danger, despite Ramses's offhand request for assistance.
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So she approached the twins respectfully, and said in an offhand way:
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The words unintentionally came out sounding too offhand, impudent rather than apologetic.
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We had a few extempore concerts in one of the middies' berths.
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Mrs. Reading stood by me in very extempore costume, holding a night-lamp:-
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When this is over, they all kneel, and the Itinerant prays extempore.
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And now Pastor Tappau began his prayer, extempore, as was the custom.
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His prayer was extempore, and he addressed God intimately and almost conversationally.
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They were delivered without much preparation and were purely extemporaneous in character.
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The closing of a door put an end to this extemporaneous address.
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She had accidentally sent her unedited, extemporaneous outpouring to everyone she knew.
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His hearer and his extemporaneous lecture plainly slipped out of his mind.
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I tell the Bowery boys I'm what is called an extemporaneous talker.
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I hope that our completely unrehearsed New Yorker captions made you laugh.
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All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
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It's unrehearsed and recorded on a phone, but it's all still there.
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Like an unrehearsed chorus, voices in pain, pain that echoed his own.
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There's something unpretentious and unrehearsed about their posts-that'sexactly why we're so addicted.
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The service commenced with a hymn, to which succeeded an extemporary prayer.
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He despised purely extemporary efforts; he did not believe in them.
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This is the usual series of evolutions through which an extemporary preacher passes.
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The extemporary character of their contrivance and expedients, is sufficiently apparent.
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The principle upon which extemporary prayer was originally introduced, is no longer admitted.
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I discussed it with George Hadash last week in an offhanded way.
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Bowman! He liked their reliance, offhanded though it might be, on him.
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So who is it? Kreindler asked, putting on an offhanded yet respectful tone.
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It sounds ingenious, Hackworth had said, startled by Finkle-McGraw's offhanded naughtiness.
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And I don't mean that in the usual offhanded way.
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You said yourself that you're trying to ad-lib your way out.
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Give him one cue, and he'd ad-lib the whole play.
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Being able to ad-lib is actually what it is.
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As every move they make will be broad cast on live television ad-lib humor is out.
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They do not use a script but ad-lib everything, using their own voices to portray the characters.
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Spock could offer an off-the-cuff estimate here, but it would be meaningless.
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It was an off-the-cuff remark and one that Robson retracted at once.
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Then, after almost two hours of off-the-cuff chat, episode 191 is over.
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As news of the off-the-cuff comment spread, the group was transformed into pariahs.
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That, I thought, explained the sheriff's off-the-cuff comment to the media.
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She was pleased with herself; off-the-cuff wit was not her forte.
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This off-the-cuff sociological research comes to us from the typewriter of Milton Liu.
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Jasmine Masters reveals that she will be delivering an off-the-cuff stand-up comedy set.
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With each of his off-the-cuff outbursts, more Republicans fall off the Trump bandwagon.
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He threw back his head and laughed, delighted with his quick, off-the-cuff creation.
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His off-the-cuff humor was seen as a good fit for the Golden Globes audience.
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No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger, Ali said in a famous off-the-cuff statement.
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The vice president-elect believed that off-the-cuff conversations often yielded more insights than formal presentations.
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Apparently off-the-cuff yet clearly designed to start a hare running?
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Together they conjure up the off-the-cuff, spirited feel of a Greenwich Village coffee house.
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On the minus side, their witty off-the-cuff remarks are frequently directed towards one another.