What is "passing comment"

Usage examples of "passing comment".

You can't brush it aside as a passing comment, made in a fit of depression.

For many hours after that he did not speak to me but for the occasional passing comment, but merely led me into wonder.

The trouble is that I don't know if what he said yesterday morning was of desperate importance or only a passing comment.

The thought seemed to amuse her even more than my passing comment had, moments earlier.

Of course he did not expect the Captain to confide in third and fourth lieutenants, but a passing comment might have revealed more of what he had in mind.

Then she remembered a passing comment the aboleth matriarch had made.

The young Prince made some passing comment on this sound, mentioning the evident presence of another worker to his companion.

The protocol is to wait until the handing in of the notice before passing comment.

Jermyn shook hands with us cordially enough, made some passing comment on the tragedy, and stood evidently waiting for us to disclose our hands.

The tedious Rika, after one glass of wine more than his usual limit, made a passing comment about the rider who visited the palace last week.

It was first suggested by Tsiolkovsky in 1895, as a passing comment and with no analysis of the idea.

In NEUROMANCER, a single passing comment about a moth-eaten stuffed horse clues the reader that horses are extinct (the victims, apparently, of some unspecified equine pandemic).

This seemed to cause some damage to my fingers, but I was aware of it only as a passing comment and of no real importance.