Pre-concert talks and informal remarks by performers are common.

There was some casual talk, coffee, a few informal remarks about the arrangement that was to be made.

Mr. Donaldson drew laughs by beginning his informal remarks: "Who are you expecting, Johnnie Cochran?

The day's main reading, from Hebrews 13:1 through 21, proved a springboard for the pastor's informal remarks on the new congregation.

Fortunately, Washington has not been stricken by compassion fatigue, notwithstanding confusion over some informal remarks by Secretary of State Shultz during his just-concluded Asian tour.

At 3 p.m., work at the news division essentially halted, as hundreds of employees flocked to Mr. Jennings's empty anchor chair on the building's third floor to hear informal remarks by Mr. Westin.

Dr. Cerf took the podium and announced that he had some informal remarks to make, and proceeded to strip.

"This is just speculation," Mr. DiFrancesco said in informal remarks before opening a conference on racial profiling in Atlantic City.

For two weeks, Mr. Lott tried to put out a firestorm that began with informal remarks at Senator Strom Thurmond's 100th-birthday party on Dec. 5.

This informal remark shows an inescapable attachment to a character epitomizing one of the most fascinating, longest-lasting, and most potent aspects of Eliot's work: its binding together of the savage and the city.