That a thoughtless remark may set him off into one of his frenzies.
Even so, they warn, thoughtless remarks during surgery can sometimes have far-reaching consequences.
Relatives and neighbors make thoughtless remarks about her mastectomy.
I must emphatically disown my own thoughtless remarks.
"You wouldn't suspect a woman on account of the thoughtless remark of a drunken man, would you?"
For some unaccountable reason he had felt a sudden compunction because of his thoughtless remark.
But after a stupid, thoughtless remark like that ... Before he could address it, she continued, hoping to distract him.
His thoughtless remarks reinforce the erroneous suspicion that conservatives are racists.
Nor am I suggesting that one thoughtless remark can prompt a neurosis.
She hunched her shoulders, though, then let them fall, deliberately dismissing whatever memories my thoughtless remark had conjured.