What is "non-committal"

Usage examples of "non-committal".

He made a non-committal answer and asked if Pretty and Sieke were enjoying themselves.

It was not music that he would have chosen to play when he was alone and low in his spirits: but he was not allowed to change or give up once he had fairly started on a piece, so when he played at all it was this partita that he worked upon, playing in a non-committal way and attending chiefly to the technical aspect of the thing.

After Ursy and I had come to our decision I tried to be very non-committal and unexalted, but I suppose I made a poor fist at it.

Whitaker Monk might have been any age between thirty-five and fifty-five, so non-committal was that lantern-jawed countenance of a droll, with its heavy, black, eloquent eyebrows, its high and narrow forehead merging into an extensive bald spot fringed with greyish hair, its rather small, blue, illegible eyes, its high-bridged nose and prominent nostrils, its wide and thin-lipped mouth, its rather startling pallor.

The chancellors and their underlings gave non-committal nodsall except for Glass.

There had been three non-committal but cheerful postcards from the Clinique de l’Aube at Davos.

There had been three non-committal but cheerful postcards from the Clinique de 1'Aube at Davos.

There had been three non-committal but cheerful postcards from the Clinique de 1' Aube at Davos.

Bootle, who disapproved of such unceremonious behaviour, returned a non-committal answer.

The restaurant occupied almost all of the street front of the ground floor, a blank, non-committal double doorway at one extreme of its plate-glass windows was seldom open and even more seldom noticed.

There had been survivors' accounts of that dreadful blood-and-oil bath in the North Atlantic, some hysterical, some non-committal, but on putting them together I found that Tutte, daring, brave, resolute, was a master of the calculated risk.