What's the difference between improvised and offhand?

Improvised


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Improvise

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
  • (2) A philosophy student at Sussex University, he was part of an improvised comedy sketch group and one skit required him to beatbox (making complex drum noises with your mouth).
  • (3) He could execute in an exemplary fashion pieces of music for the organ in his repertory as well as improvise.
  • (4) Today George Avakian, the jazz producer who befriended both of them, believes: “The session in which she did A Sailboat in the Moonlight is really the one that expresses their closeness musically and spiritually more than any other.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Holiday admitted she wanted to sing in the style that Young improvised, while he often studied the lyrics before playing a song.
  • (5) But in the Round Room of the Mansion House there must have been at least two thousand others in an improvised Strangers' Gallery.
  • (6) : Facial Action Coding System: From the video-recordings of faces and their photographic versions obtained after a pause on the video recorder, these authors have improvised a technic based on the visual observation of the anatomical basis of the movement in connection with facial expression and their description through minimal anatomical action units or A.U.
  • (7) A nondescript Gerard Deulofeu corner just before the half-hour was transformed by an improvised, volleyed flick from Gareth Barry.
  • (8) The British director demands six months of improvisation and filming; according to Eddie Marsan, Malick makes dialogue up on the spot and then starts his camera rolling, whether the actor's ready or not.
  • (9) This is how we can help the terrorists, if we attack hospitals, schools, and things like this.” The devastation of Syria will be Obama’s legacy | Natalie Nougayrède Read more Assad also rejected criticism of his forces’ use of barrel bombs, improvised crates of high explosives most often dropped on urban areas from helicopters.
  • (10) Furthermore, the same process may lead the surgeon to improvise and create a successful alternative.
  • (11) I write it by working with the actors as they improvise.
  • (12) This is not something that can be improvised, however.
  • (13) Alex Song was the provider, and Van Persie improvised to outwit John Ruddy with a deliciously delicate touch.
  • (14) The panopticon-like New Broadcasting House, the enlarged central London HQ that opened last year, was designed without offices for individual executives, though Hall insisted on having one – he occupies a former meeting room – and Yentob has improvised one.
  • (15) At least United managed to win the game and put some points on the board, thanks to Mata’s inspired improvisation, and in the context of English results in Europe this week that does count as progress.
  • (16) Brennan told Fox the troops would have to be confident he posed no threat "in terms of not having an IED [improvised explosive device] on his body".
  • (17) The surgery involves a microsurgical dissection at the site of the common canalicular obstruction followed by anastomosis to the sac or nasal mucosa with silicone tube intubation of the passage using an improvised metallic introducer.
  • (18) Medical equipment, shields, helmets, improvised armour, gas masks and camping equipment are also being sent.
  • (19) Cameron announced a series of measures to help stabilise the country and to strengthen the British military effort to hasten the withdrawal: • A doubling of the number of teams, from 10 to 20, dealing with improvised explosive devices.
  • (20) Loach has spent his career depicting ordinary people, telling working-class stories as truthfully as possible, and he works distinctively – filming each scene in order, often using non-professional actors, encouraging improvisation.

Offhand


Definition:

  • (a.) Instant; ready; extemporaneous; as, an offhand speech; offhand excuses.
  • (adv.) In an offhand manner; as, he replied offhand.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Victims have told the charity of offhand and dismissive reactions from police, and am impression that crimes are less serious if they are committed against a disabled person.
  • (2) As a result, there exists a tendency to dismiss almost offhandedly the entire concept of using material incentives to further contraceptive practice before any have been adequately tried.
  • (3) The list of films from the last couple years is long and includes The International , where the enemy is a bank, to comedies such as The Other Guys and Despicable Me where offhand jokes skewer banks and bankers even in children's films.
  • (4) He initially aspired to a career in medicine but an offhand comment from his year 8 teacher changed that.
  • (5) Turkish police used teargas, plastic bullets and water cannon to disperse hundreds of demonstrators who gathered on Friday at the scene of the country's worst industrial accident to protest the country's dismal work safety record, and the prime minister's apparently offhand attitude towards victims of the catastrophe.
  • (6) In person he's quite offhand, an odd mixture of shy and intensely self-assured, and with his stocky build and salt-and-pepper beard he conveys the impression of a very clever badger, burrowing away in the undergrowth of economic detail, ready to give quite a sharp bite if you get in his way.
  • (7) I do realize that some of my offhanded attempts at sarcasm and at humor were not as witty as they were intended to be, and were actually insensitive and even offensive.” Despite Wildstein’s guilty plea, Christie has said he is unconcerned.
  • (8) Unfortunately, offhand and casual comments relating to class prejudice and snobbery are very common.
  • (9) While attempting to rally support for US bombing of Syrian president Bashar Assad for his chemical-weapons use, Kerry saw his offhand musing about Assad giving up his weapons stockpiles turned into a Russian diplomatic coup that allowed Assad to avoid attack and remain in power.
  • (10) A guilty person it wouldn’t be as much of an issue to me, but on the offhand chance that somebody wasn’t, I would never take that chance with my life,” he said.
  • (11) I guess I'd thought about it when I was younger, and I said, in an offhand way, that I would do it somewhere down the road.
  • (12) These results suggest that the use of S concentration measurements may serve to be an effective tool for a simple, offhand evaluation of keratinization.
  • (13) The only hope police have is changing allegiances from associates of the gang or ex-girlfriends who may have witnessed and perhaps recorded on a mobile phone someone's confession or offhand remark.
  • (14) "The president made an offhand remark making fun of his own bowling that was in no way intended to disparage the Special Olympics," he said.
  • (15) In their offhand way, they celebrate the man who was, by his own account, a stranger in a strange land.
  • (16) Trump is prone to mentioning NBC executives by name; Paul made offhand references to law school professors, from the conservative iconoclast Randy Barnett to the liberal civil rights activist Michelle Alexander .
  • (17) At some point she offhandedly told me that she had found out that once a month, on this particular night, the pub we were going to had a “gay night”.
  • (18) With the current state of our knowledge regarding uses, hazards, and dangers, the cavalier offhanded attitude which in the past has all too frequently characterized oxygen use in the premature is no longer acceptable.
  • (19) He later told Entertainment Weekly that while his promises initially manifested as an "offhand joke, a spur of the moment 140 characters" and was "more of a means to get the issue out there, that it is rude to text during movies," he was remained determined to stick to his guns.
  • (20) She made an offhand inquiry to her insurance company and was floored to learn that her policy – which she purchased as an individual – wouldn’t offer her any maternity coverage.