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Passing comment   /pˈæsɪŋ kˈɑmɛnt/   Listen
Passing comment

noun
1.
An incidental remark.  Synonym: obiter dictum.






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"Passing comment" Quotes from Famous Books



... uplifting of our eyes and shoulders during an hour or so,—an expression of slight shock, followed by forgetfulness. Air-men, recklessly braving the spaces of the sky, fall headlong, and are smashed to mutilated atoms every month or so, without rousing us to more than a passing comment, and a chorus of "How dreadful!" from simpering women,— and the greatest and best man alive cannot hope for long remembrance by the world at large when he dies. Shakespeare recognised this tendency in callous human nature when he ...
— Innocent - Her Fancy and His Fact • Marie Corelli



Words linked to "Passing comment" :   remark, input, comment



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