And even then, the host may airily announce that the first opening is nearer to midnight than to dusk.

"I'm off to Prague with some guys in a few days," he announces airily.

"It's away mapping the continent," Varian announced airily.

"That's right - that's the way to take it," the cub announced airily, though he had already begun to glance anxiously at the door.

A taxi driver airily announced to a passenger here, "I go with women right and left, and I don't have it."

I was startled; it was the same look he'd given me at the Central Gate when I airily announced my success.

'Only kidding,' he announced airily, and turned back to admire the tiny bullet-hole in the skull.

When she learns that a prospective husband she had considered for Cynthia was already secretly married, she airily announces, "I can't forgive him even though he is dead."

"I am Harperus, the Deliambren Ambassador-at-large," he announced airily to the functionary.

"I respect all races but I'm glad to be white," Kimberly announces airily.