Sentences with phrase «as evasive»

Nitarudi Ninarudi expresses the complexity of longing for a place that is alive in the memory in a very different way than in the physical reality — a place as evasive and fleeting as the identities one negotiates when they are relocated, bringing into play issues of transformation, translation, and even personal survival.

Refusing to do so may make the art world dismiss them as evasive, self - indulgent, or downright inauthentic.

As well as these evasive elements, there's also combat sections in the game where a dynamic targeting system is used which calls for fast reflex combinations.

Action Commands improve your jumping height, give abilities such as evasive manoeuvres, and blocking skills.

The colony is efficient as well as evasive, building a nest that closely reflects the number of ants within.

Rather than being a slick operator, Cameron often comes across as evasive, prickly and borderline robotic in his public performances.

Instead, he came across as evasive and slippery.

In the short term you are correct as well as evasive: kids going to university will have their costs postponed.

It is simply not possible for anyone to be as evasive and willfully ignorant as s / he is.

If you pick a trivial error like, «I once ordered catering for the wrong day,» she says you'll come off as evasive.

Not exact matches

He «came off as cold and calculating,» lacking in sincerity, «glib at inappropriate times, downright evasive at others,» and in general seemed «as much a machine as the bicycle he rode for so long.»

For America as a whole, he took a hit by giving an obviously false or evasive explanation for why Texas ranks just about last on Medicaid payments.

Evasive as that may sound, after nine years of investigating porn, I have a similar response.

Church members were ticketed to ensure seating, but others had to find fragments of nourishment where they could, with some sneaking into already packed balconies through fire escapes and other evasive subterfuges, and with Fosdick's own seat filled by a standee as soon as he entered the pulpit.

Therefore, I feel I must overcome my resistance and resentment, must dismiss the feeling of engaging in an unwilling exercise in apologetics, and try earnestly, if not to supply straight and simple answers, at least to clarify and line up some of the evasive arguments that I have harbored for a long time, and to articulate them as well as I can.

Luke reports it, pertinently for content if somewhat awkwardly from the point of view of style, as told by Jesus in answer to the evasive question «Who is my neighbor?»

Evasive answers always looks as if one is hiding from something.

Just analyze Wenger's statement today, «I didn't come out against Benzema», its not the same as saying that I did not show or I don't have any interest in Benzema, and to top it off when ask about ruling out any future purchases (this within the context of an additional striker) Arsene pointed out what he currently has at his disposal and think they are sufficient, while adding that if an opportunity to strengthen presents itself, he would not be adverse to pursue it; this seems a bit contradictory and points to someone who is being a bit evasive.

However, the report suggests that his reply may have been meant as he did not want to talk about it, as Sanchez has also offered evasive answers to other questions about his future this week.

Ferguson, meanwhile, was evasive when asked to assess Mourinho's merits as a candidate to succeed him.

He was surplus to requirements at Barca — Guardiola didn't see Toure as the box - to - box, evasive, mobile midfielder he bases his team on.

It's also known as «lean, finely textured beef,» which is less disgusting, but not evasive enough to shield it from a blogging mom in Texas, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and ABC News, all of whom contributed to the stuff being bounced from...

It's also known as «lean, finely textured beef,» which is less disgusting, but not evasive enough to shield it from a blogging mom in Texas, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and ABC News, all of whom contributed to the stuff being bounced from countless grocery stores and Congress demanding the USDA ban it from school lunches.

Even an instinctively evasive Prime Minister can not be wholly obtuse when questioned by MPs for two hours as May has been several times.

And by repeatedly trying to paint Khan as slippery and evasive, the Tories hope to paint the the election as a choice between Goldsmith's «plain - speaking» and Khan's untrustworthiness.

The degeneration of the rift to seemingly personalized tones would have been avoided had the NNPC being unbundled as envisaged in the evasive legislation, rather than the superficial restructuring so far carried out in the Corporation.

He was also evasive about confronting Tory MPs opposing EU membership, preferring to have a playful bash at his wayward London mayor: «As you know, I have very little control over what Boris does,» admitting that he might be tempted to engage in some more telephone voting were Johnson to enter the I'm a Celebrity jungle.

I expected Cameron & Osbourne et al to be evasive, as Lib DEms I had hoped and expected more honesty from our representatives.

Cameron shifty, slippery, evasive & arrogant but Corbyn needed to do better to nail Dave as a tax credit - cutting liar #pmqs

Cameron was clearly evasive and relied on old tropes such as the union attack, which is anyway of questionable value.

When reporters on Thursday tried to pin down the evasive Weiner as to the number of women with whom he had exchanged illicit messages, he delivered a rambling response before settling on «six to 10, I suppose.»

Some conservative intellectuals, finding Mr. Trump evasive and inconsistent on key issues, have sought to recruit a more ideological candidate to run as an independent.

It sounds like an evasive answer, but as we talk further, I realize that it is the single most important idea in interstellar travel.

Cancers which contain high amounts of these evasive cancer stem cells, such as pancreatic cancers, which have proven to be highly aggressive and chemo - resistant (3).

It's a lot less sexy to be evasive and kind of bro - y as a defense mechanism.

His dating profile may be a little sparse, but as you get to know him, is he evasive of details about his life like his address, name of his employer and even his last name?

It is one step up from communicating by email and so more will be revealed about the person through such things as tone of voice, evasive comments if any and not having time to consider what they say, as they would in an email.

In regular life, i really do not encounter people being as deceptive, evasive, or inconsistent.

In interviews, the real Wiseau comes across as maddeningly evasive and opportunistic.

The 19 (plus four) characters provide a good variety of options for the fighting and the battles are as fun as ever thanks to the usual range of offensive options and evasive manoeuvres.

Despite his enigmatic, evasive energy — as unnervingly played by Flynn, his heavy gaze never quite seems to meet anyone else's — the tinderbox attraction between them is immediate.

Each one of these Alex Haley series have been relatively surprising in their, by network TV drama standards, genuineness, with this series continuing the «Roots» mythlogy's tradition of being more evasive of subtlety issues than it could have been, though not quite as much as it should have been, for although this series is generally genuine, there is the occasional manipulative moments, some of which go so far as to dip into melodrama.

The man behind the critically acclaimed 2011 box office smash, which starred Ryan Gosling as an LA stuntman, is evasive.

Her insertion into the scene proved simultaneously an amusing foil for the authorities currently working the case — mostly for Denis Leary as a abrasive but ultimately lonely detective heading up the investigation — as well as a worthy adversary of sorts for the brilliantly evasive Thomas Crown.

It didn't occur to me'til it was over just how evasive they all are: I think they refer to the onscreen action, like, a half - dozen times (it's mostly used to spark debate, as in a lengthy tangent about the corrupting influence of Bill Clinton), which is probably in everyone's best interest.

The Russos» extensive interview with Telegraph India makes for interesting reading, as they go into more depth discussing the film than their oft - evasive «wait and see!»

In retrospect, the film's chilly reception in North America might not be much of a mystery, as Hooper appeared to be telling his fans that there's more to life than guy's stuff, and that eventually a man must put away evasive self - absorptions — an assertion that beats as the heart underneath Lifeforce's amusing horror - movie antics.

As it turns out, the secret to success in Hollywood is far less evasive than one might think.

It is impossible not to be curious about the bloody deed itself, the curiosity stoked as Kate's journey to see it herself is rebuffed at every step, the evasive tape just out of her reach.

Throw in a few quick evasive maneuvers, as if Justin Bieber just leapt in front of you.