His spare, lively screenplay is free of stray remarks.

Now he remembered stray remarks.

A stray remark revealed the stakes.

A stray remark by Master Idarolan had set his thinking in that direction and nothing had happened to disabuse him of the notion.

He deduces her mission from a stray remark and from gossip he's heard while at Oxford.

Even a simple letter to a friend, a stray remark to a family member, could be read as seditious.

But it says Congress must act formally, not through "legislative silence, stray remarks of individual members" or other things said to amount to "acquiescence" in executive acts.

And we may still pick up some stray remark in a telephone or radio communication.

It has now entered folklore that Ratner was pushed for a stray remark, but the reality is more complex.

In case after case, judges excuse blatantly discriminatory comments as mere "stray remarks" and strain to find alternative reasons that older workers were fired.