Avoidance by subterfuge

Usage examples of evasion.

She was not surprised by the evasion, but she gave his chest hair an admonitory little tug anyway.

At last he had given his grievance an airing, and compared with his previous treatment rude letters, curt telephone calls, and ignored requests for information smooth evasions were a decided improvement.

Classic evasion tactics called for him to go deep, forcing the torpedo to follow him down, leaving hard knuckles in the water as he went and ejecting decoys and noisemakers.

When evasion and repression have obstructed the integrative process, the task of reason and awareness is to remove those obstructions.

Steve Rubell, the Studio 54 co-owner who had recently pleaded guilty to two counts of tax evasion.

Organized science had tried every tactic of distortion, evasion, misrepresentation, intimidation, vilification, and suppression of evidence to slay the monster that threatened the entire foundation of the collective uniformitarian worldview and mind-set.

President Towney is under arrest by civil warrant, charged with misappropriation of funds and tax evasion.

Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning.

Only the ballcarrier, one man, could attempt to use evasion and finesse in avoiding the primal impact.

A Jewish Rabbin relates the following conversation, as exultingly as if the quibbling evasion on which it turns positively settled the question itself, which in fact it does not approach.

Evasion had required help from Sethvir and Luhaine, their paired strengths backed by the mighty defenses laid into Althain Tower.

All human offences, the whole system of dishonesty, evasion, circumventing, forbidden indulgence, and intriguing ambition, in which men are struggling with each other, will be looked upon by a thoughtful Mason, not merely as a scene of mean toils and strifes, but as the solemn conflicts of immortal minds, for ends vast and momentous as their own being.

Romans with a repetition of claims, evasions, and inroads, which they undertook without reflection, and terminated without glory.

The notes revived in Richard and Ada a general impression that they both had, without quite knowing how they came by it, that their cousin Jarndyce could never bear acknowledgments for any kindness he performed and that sooner than receive any he would resort to the most singular expedients and evasions or would even run away.

First it was Agnew with the tax evasion and then it was Dukakis with the tank.