As black a picture as man could paint: points out that this is just a complicated way of committing suicide: no silver lining, no promises, even Alex, thrown in as a casual afterthought.

The Scholar, thinking aloud as he often did, mentioned to Je-remy in a casual afterthought that he'd need a replacement for Carlotta as a technical helper.

He was turning back towards his car when he looked back with a casual afterthought.

It had been jotted on the back of the page containing the drawing of Mr. Howard's fistula, evidently added as a casual afterthought on the day's activities.

Finally, as a casual afterthought to a lengthy discussion of the problems of interstellar trade, Rafik mentioned that he and his partner had encountered a small technical difficulty with which Uncle Hafiz might be able to help them out-for a consideration, of course.

Their whimsical and colorful depictions of llamas, houses, and flowers weren't haphazardly pinned up as a casual afterthought; they had obviously been treated as prizes - painstakingly matted, carefully framed, and personally autographed by Elizabeth and Rachel themselves.

"Shields up," he said as calmly as if it were a casual afterthought.

In the final hour, Mr. Scheider does say "millions of Soviets were executed or exiled" under Stalin, but that's a casual afterthought.