So his otherwise surprisingly tame account is punctuated by all manner of free-floating slurs, from Jay Leno's meanest Hillary Clinton jokes to casual asides.

Some women refer to the abuse in casual asides.

"Betty's his ex-wife," the man next to me said, in one of those casual asides meant to include me in the merriment.

He announced raises and promotions, demotions and firings, and praised or warned, always in seemingly casual asides made while swabbing a bore.

These range from casual asides about George Armstrong Custer to the patter of the reservation's radio station, where "It's a good day to be indigenous!"

The artist may be more appealing in bits and pieces, the casual asides and false starts.

Claire Headley describes how staff lived in constant paranoia due to being required to submit "knowledge reports" on each other if they heard any critical statements or casual asides.

He also turned little brushing steps into the equivalents of casual conversational asides.

However, casual asides and observations collected during recording sessions are also included as interludes.

Her deeper thoughts are offered as casual asides.