Then, an innocuous question about how much he had changed things after his four months' internship at the end of last season.

It's astonishing how that innocuous question focuses the mind.

A small, innocuous question that says so much.

I stuck to texting only innocuous questions.

But the best lines often come from the most innocuous questions.

Why did that innocuous statement bother me so?

This seemingly innocuous statement, hammered to the front of so many movies, has become a red flag.

However, proving seemingly innocuous statements can require long proofs using only the above eleven axioms.

These innocuous words are much more subversive than they sound.

But soon those three innocuous words were to be seen scrawled on whiteboards all over the office building.

Ticket inspectors have become cowboy clampers on rails, punishing us for failing to understand the fares' labyrinth and the arcane rules hidden behind the innocuous words: 'restrictions apply'.

Some security firms have systems whereby staff can signal that they are acting under duress by dropping pre-arranged and seemingly innocuous words into their conversation.

The tweak seemed relatively innocuous for older employees, but for young higher flyers, with big pay rises ahead of them, it will be very costly.

Such speculations are relatively innocuous, except when they shade into presumed fact.

Ultrasound can degrade solutions of imidazolium-based ionic liquids with hydrogen peroxide and acetic acid to relatively innocuous compounds.

The side products, carbon dioxide and imidazole, are relatively innocuous.

This would allow a relatively innocuous vehicle to field a large amount of aircraft.